African Americans–Civil rights–History

  • The Wonderful world of law and order

    Actor-playwright Ossie Davis at the conference “The Negro writer in the United States,” sponsored by the University of California Extension school. Davis reads from his play “Purlie Victorious” and discusses race relations in the United States and his use of literature to better the situation in a speech that he will later publish as “The…

  • Ralph Gleason interviewing Dick Gregory

    Humorist and writer Dick Gregory discusses his participation in the Civil Rights movement. Ralph Gleason, San Francisco Chronicle columnist, conducted the interview at the KPFA studios shortly after Mr. Gregory arrived in San Francisco to keep a nightclub engagement. He had just been “parading without a permit” in Birmingham, Alabama.

  • 100 years of freedom / James Baldwin.

    James Baldwin gives a talk at the University of California at Berkeley on the fight for Black Civil rights since the Emancipation Proclamation.

  • A conversation with James Baldwin

    Elsa Knight Thompson and John Leonard, Director of literature and drama, talk with the author of “The fire next time” and “Nobody knows my name” about both literary and political matters. Among other things, Baldwin discusses what comes after Birmingham in the civil rights movement, and why the critics attacked his novel “Another country.”

  • Commentary of a Black Southern busrider / Rosa Parks

    Discussion of Rosa Park’s refusal to give up her seat to a white man and the resulting bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama. The interview was conducted by Sidney Rogers with Rosa Parks in 1956.

  • Commentary on Negro delinquents

    Talk on the problems facing Black youths. |Previously listed as BB0572.03

  • Gandhi invades the South / Edward Keating, Ira Sandperl, and Roy Kepler.

    The panel discusses the use of nonviolence by Southern Blacks in the Civil Rights movement. This is the last in a series of five programs moderated by Edward Keating, editor of Ramparts magazine. The participants in the programs are Ira Sandperl, head of the Institute for the Study of Non-Violence, and Roy Kepler, who has…

  • Paul Robeson : world citizen / interviewed by Elsa Knight Thompson and Harold Winkler.

    Paul Robeson, noted actor and political activist, relates his personal history and views in this interview with Elsa Knight Thompson, KPFA, and Harold Winkler, then president of Pacifica Foundation. Discussion of his life as the son of a former slave, his life as an expatriate during the 1930s, his involvement in the civil rights movement,…

  • Women speak out against fascism (Episode 3 of 12, Part 2)

    A panel at the conference called by the Black Panther Party the weekend of July 18-20 in Oakland. Panel speakers are Roberta Alexander, Marlene Dixon, Evelyn Harris, Carol Henry, Penny Nakatsu, and Carol Thomas. Panel is introduced by Marie Johnson. Originally aired during KPFA’s Open Hour, 1969-08-11. Reel two of two.

  • Race, class, and politics

    C. Wilson Record, professor of sociology at Sacramento State College and race relations consultant speaks on “Race, class, and politics.” Followed by question and answer period. Record wrote The Negro and the Communist party (1951), Race and radicalism (1964), and authored Little Rock, U.S.A. (1960) with his wife Jane Cassels Record. This is the ninth…