African Americans–Civil rights–History

  • John Hope Franklin interviewed by William Swanberg (Part 2 of 2)

    The conclusion of William Swanberg’s interview with Dr. John Hope Franklin, author and professor of history at the University of Chicago. The two discuss American Blacks and the problems of integration at a public appearance in the Bay Area under the auspices of the University of Chicago Club.

  • Nine years later: a Black panel on racism and civil rights since the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. part 2

    Large panel discussion on the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Dr. King Jr.’s impact upon the Civil Rights movement, South Africa, the Vietnam War and the Black community, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, Affirmative Action programs, the Bakke decision, capitalism, socialism, COINTELPRO (Counter Intelligence Program), U.S. police forces, economics in the Black community,…

  • Roland Young, Seale, Craven on George Jackson (Part 2 of 2)

    Continuation of the panel discussion moderated by Roland Young, with guests Bobby Seale and Carolyn Craven, regarding the death of George Jackson. This part of the program consists of panel interaction with listeners calling in, including a statement from the Prisoner Solidarity Committee of New York, who announce an upcoming demonstration in New York.

  • Press conference at San Quentin (Part 1 of 2)

    This recording begins with interviews with George Jackson’s mother Georgia Jackson, and John Clutchette’s mother Doris Maxwell, outside San Quentin prison, awaiting information on their sons, the day after George Jackson was killed inside the prison property. Following is the press conference at San Quentin with Associate Warden James Park, Warden Louis Nelson, and Raymond…

  • The humanities and prejudice

    This contains a recording of “The humanities and prejudice,” the principal address of the third session of the Centennial symposium at the University of California at Berkeley is given by author and educator Dr. Saunders Redding. Redding is introduced by chairman of the session, Leo Lowenthal, professor of sociology at the University of California, Berkeley.

  • The schools and prejudice (Part 1 of 2)

    In this fourth session of the University of California at Berkeley Centennial symposium, the topic is “The Schools and Prejudice.” Marie Fielder, director of the Leadership Training Institute in Problems of School Desegregation, is the chair of the session. Speakers are M. Brewster Smith, director of the Institute for Human Development at U.C. Berkeley, Charles…

  • The schools and prejudice (Part 2 of 2)

    This is the second reel of “The Schools and Prejudice,” the fourth session of the University of California at Berkeley’s Centennial symposium. Marie Fielder chairs the session, is the chair of the session. Speakers are M. Brewster Smith, director of the Institute for Human Development at U.C. Berkeley, Charles Silberman, director of the Carnegie Study…

  • The mass media and prejudice

    This is the fifth part of the University of California’s centennial symposium. Dore Schary, motion picture producer and writer, is the moderator, and panelists are James Bassett, director of the editorial pages of the Los Angeles Times; Ernest Dunbar, senior editor of Look; Ben Holman, Associate Director for Media Relations, Community Relations Service of the…

  • Industry and prejudice

    This is the sixth session of the University of California’s Centennial symposium. The chairman of the meeting is Lloyd Ulman, director of the Institute of Industrial Relations at U.C. Berkeley, and the featured address is by Howard J. Samuels, Under Secretary of Commerce in the U.S. Dept. of Commerce.

  • To mourn Fred Hampton is to move forward for the people / Elaine Brown ; interviewed by Larry Bensky.

    Representative from the Black Panther Party Central Headquarters in Oakland discusses the growth and the party since the shooting of Hampton in Chicago in 1969, and the upcoming Oakland City elections in which she is running of Councilwoman and Bobby Seal for Mayor.