Prisons and race relations.

  • A visit with Huey Newton at Vacaville Prison Facility

    Black Panther Party co-founder and leader Huey P. Newton discusses his imprisonment at Vacaville Medical Facility in Vacaville, CA with Denny Smithson of KPFA’s Public Affairs Department; Karen Wald, reporter for the Guardian; and Joe Blum, editor of The Movement. Newton talks about the way he’s been portrayed in the media and physical and social…

  • An interview with Huey Newton

    Huey Newton, interviewed by Alex Hoffman, KPFA reporter. Newton, co-founder of the Black Panther Party, discusses discrimination and abuse during his imprisonment, his impending trial, the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy, and the Vietnam War. Newton notes that most of the black inmates in jail with him have become Black Panthers since his incarceration. Interview…

  • Huey Newton : August 11, 1970

    Huey Newton, the founder and Minister of Defense of the Black Panther Party, is interviewed by Elsa Knight Thompson at the KPFA studios, six days after his release from prison. He expresses his views about the worldwide Black movement for independence, the justice and prison systems in the United States, and the aims of the…

  • Soledad brother / produced by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.

    On George Jackson and the Soledad Brothers case; also an interview with his mother, Mrs. George Jackson the day after Jackson was killed in prison.

  • Report on the death of George Jackson.

    Report on the controversial death of San Quentin inmate George Jackson. Includes actuality of James Park, Lewis Nelson, Raymond Procunier, Mrs. Georgia Jackson, John Thorne,and Floyd Silliman.

  • Eldridge Cleaver at California Hall

    Black Panther Party Minister of Information Eldridge Cleaver speaks at a meeting sponsored by the Eldridge Cleaver Defense Committee on November 21, 1968. Cleaver speaks on his experiences with the prison system in California, and on the Panthers’ efforts to gain political recognition. Originally scheduled at the Hall of Flowers in Golden Gate Park, the…

  • Blacks in prisons : two reports / by Mark Schwartz and Doug Walter.

    On Ruchell Magee imprisoned because of his Black Panther activities; legal actions for the Attica prison riots.|BLACKS IN PRISONS : TWO REPORTS / Mark Schwartz and Doug Walter. – Two news featrues from a 1974 documentary about experiences and conditions of Blacks in United States prisons. – CONTENT: pt.1. Ruchell Magee, held in Califoria’s Soledad…

  • Richard Pryor on Attica / produced by Alan Farley.

    Compilation of Pryor’s poetry and comments made during the Attica prison rebellion.|RICHARD PRYOR ON ATTICA / produced by Alan Farley. – Compilation of Pryor’s poetry he wrote about the Attica uprising and comments he made in one of his nightclub acts (recorded at Mandrake’s in Berkeley) and the comedy album he produced with Alan Farley,…

  • Paul Cook, Ruchell Magee, and justice in America

    Paul Cook, former cellmate of Ruchell Magee, is on parole from San Quentin at the time of this interview with Carolyn Craven. Cook tells of an experience he had at the Marin Civic Center on June 3, 1971, and then discusses his relationship with Ruchell Magee and his work on Magee’s defense committee for the…

  • Requiem for a bad nigger / produced by Bruce Gossard.

    Documentary on the death of Soledad Brother George Jackson, and on his political views.