African Americans–Civil rights–History

  • Ben Hooks interview / produced by Fruit Punch Collective.

    Benjamin Hooks, head of the NAACP and first African-American FCC commissioner, is interviewed by Bill Hartman of the Fruit Punch Collective just prior to his leaving the FCC. Mr. Hooks talks about his views on minorities as they are portrayed in the media, with particular emphasis on gay people. Produced by Fruit Punch Collective (Gay…

  • Conditions in the Oakland ghetto

    Mark Comfort, president of the Oakland Direct Action Committee, and member Ronald Stevens discuss racial tensions in the ghetto with Elsa Knight Thompson.

  • Lunch counters and jails

    W. H. Larkin, a member of the Congress of Racial Equality discusses the reasons for and techniques utilized in the Civil Rights Movement in this interview by Elsa Knight Thompson. Larkin recounts his experiences in the sit-ins at Tallahassee, Florida lunch counters, arrests, and the ensuing trial and prison time, as well as a march…

  • Nine years later: a Black panel on racism and civil rights since the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. part 1

    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, U.S. police forces, economics in the Black community, President Carter, racism at…

  • Whitney Young on civil rights

    Whitney Young Jr., executive director of the Urban League, speaking on civil rights at the 28th convention of the League of Women Voters of the United States, held at the Conrad Hilton Hotel in Chicago, Illinois in April 1968.

  • A chicken in every bag : the Black Community Survival Conference.

    Report and actuality of the Black Community Survival Conference held by the Black Panthers at the Oakland Auditorium, aimed at raising the consciousness of Blacks to their social condition in America. Includes speeches by Bobby Seale. The title of the recording arose from the promise the Black Panthers gave to give away a bag of…

  • Five nights in the ghetto

    This is a five-part documentary series or “audiomosaic” as the producers call it, about the ghettos and race relations in Los Angeles. The series was produced by Leonard Brown and a team of volunteers. Initially broadcast by KPFK at 9:30 p.m. on October 26, 27, 28, and 30, 1964 and at 9:00 p.m. on November…

  • Let’s all join the fight for freedom

    Reverend Ralph Abernathy, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference leader who rose to prominence in the Montgomery bus boycott (and who contributed the program Freedom Road to Pacifica’s history), speaks to 400 high school students at the 1962 American Friends Service Committee conference on goals for young Americans and the Black’s struggle for racial equality. Reverend…