African Americans–Civil rights–History

  • Challenge to Negro leadership : the case of Robert Williams

    In the thirty spare minutes before the next broadcast, KPFA host Chris Koch reads aloud the article “Challenge to Negro leadership” regarding NAACP leader Robert Williams, written by Julian Mayfield, and published in Commentary Magazine, April 1961.

  • A Negro votes

    Loren Miller, attorney, publisher, and cochair of the West Coast legal committee of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, discusses Black voting philosophy. Interviewed by Gene Marine.

  • The Virginia “freedom of choice” school plan / Leon Dure ; interviewed by Ray Niblack

    Discussion of Virginia’s school desegregation plan and whether or not it complies with the Brown vs. the Board of Education (1954) Supreme Court decision to integrate the schools of the United States. Leon Dure, originator of the plan, is interviewed by Ray Niblack, news director of radio station WINA, Charlottesville, VA.

  • The Walking Negroes of Montgomery / Robert Schutz, Reverend L. Roy Bennett.

    Robert Schutz interviews Rev. L. Roy Bennett, formerly of Montgomery, Alabama, now minister First A.M.E. Zion Church, San Francisco, on “The Walking Negroes of Montgomery” and the civil rights movement in Montgomery, Alabama.

  • Eavesdropping along the Mason-Dixon line

    Anne Braden of the Southern Conference Educational Fund, talks informally with a number of young student activists in Berkeley about the condition of peace and civil rights movements in the North and South. She is joined by Elsa Knight Thompson, Lou Hartman, and attorney Alex Hoffman. The taped report was not originally intended for broadcast,…

  • Has the world changed?

    Attorney William L. Patterson (also known as Mr. Civil Rights) discusses with Elsa Knight Thompson his 40 years of struggle, and the conclusions he draws from his experiences as a Black man and attorney in America.

  • Fannie Lou Hamer interview

    Colin Edwards interviews Fannie Lou Hamer, candidate for Congress and member of the Executive Committee of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, during Hamer’s visit to Berkeley in 1965. Hamer discusses how she got involved in Freedom Democratic Party politics, the planks of the Freedom Democratic Party, and the continuing fight for voting rights and human…

  • The Civil rights movement and its goals of the future / Martin Luther King.

    Martin Luther King, Jr. addresses the student body at Stanford University with his speech “The Civil Rights Movement and its Direction, Leadership, and Goals for the Future.”

  • The Negro heritage in American history

    Paul F. Lawrence, Associate Superintendent for Higher Education, California Department of Education, speaking before the California Council of Social Studies on February 26, 1966 regarding the lack of African-American representation in American classrooms. He is introduced by Janet Ross, Historian of the Council. This program concludes the series from the 1966 Conference of the California…

  • An anthology of Negro poets

    Selected readings by the authors from the works of Black poets; Langston Hughes, Sterling Brown, Countee Cullen, Margaret Walker, and Gwendolyn Brooks. Also includes readings of poems by Claude McKay. Produced by Arna Bontemps.