Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.)

  • A reading with Marilyn Lowen

    A reading by dancer, poet, teacher, and civil rights and women’s rights activist Marilyn Norma Lowen (1944 – ).

  • Democracy Now! February 11, 1999

    Chevron Under Fire; Sweatshop Reports |(23 Minutes) Chevron Under Fire The recent wave of repression and violence by the Nigerian military in the Niger Delta that has left scores of villagers dead has sparked worldwide attention. So has the role of oil companies such as Royal Dutch Shell and the US multinational Chevron in the…

  • Kwame Ture Remembered

    (55 Minutes) Kwame Ture Remmebered From Freedom Rider to SNCC Chariman, Black Panther to Pan-Africanist leader. Close friends remember the life and legacy of a true revolutionary: the man formerly known as Stokely Carmichael, buried this weekend in Africa. GUEST: Cleveland Sellers, Assoc. Dir. of African American Studies at the University of South Carolina. GUEST:…

  • Democracy Now! November 16, 1998

    U. S. Stern on Iraqi Sanctions; Former Black Panther, SNCC Chari Kwame Ture Dies; California University Workders Hold Hunger Strike |U. S. Stern on Iraqi Sanctions President Clinton yesterday accepted Iraqi’s promise to allow weapons inspections to resume, but warned Baghdad that the u.S. remains poised to attack weapons facilities if Iraq refused to cooperate…

  • The Berkeley riots : a KPFA documentary.

    Documentary from actuality of the Free Speech movement actions of October 1-2, which has been labeled the “Car Tap Rally.” Includes statements by Mario Savio, Clark Kerr, as well as the music of Joan Baez who came and gave a concert in support of the student demonstrators. 518 RECORDED: KPFA, 9 Oct. 1964.|THE BERKELEY RIOTS…

  • Stokely Carmichael interview

    Discussion with Stokely Carmichael of the Civil Rights movement and the growing participation of Blacks in the political process. Carmichael is introduced as the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee coordinator working in Lowndes County, Alabama, “organizer of the Lowndes County Freedom Organization, also called The Black Panther Party.” The interview is conducted by Terence Cannon, editor…

  • The San Francisco human rights march

    This is a recording of the speeches given at a rally of 35,000 people at the Republican National Convention in San Francisco, July 12, 1964. The day before the opening of the Republican National Convention, 35,000 people marched up Market Street in San Francisco and held a mass rally in Civic Center. The purpose of…

  • Whatsoever a man soweth

    This is a documentary on the Mississippi Civil Rights workers Michael Schwerner, James Chaney, and Andrew Goodman, prior to the discovery of their bodies in Mississippi in 1964. The documentary begins with Dale Minor narrating the dragging of the Mississippi as they search for the missing bodies. Much of the program revolves around the Council…

  • Otis Brown Jr. of Indianola, Mississippi

    This is an autobiographical statement from a young Southern Black organizer on his experiences in the Civil Rights movement. Otis Brown, Jr. was one of eleven children born in Indianola, Mississippi. Brown was born August 3, 1945, and he got involved in the civil rights movement in 1965, attending and then teaching at the Freedom…

  • Why the Muslim movement:Chuck McDew interview

    Elsa Knight Thompson interviews chairman of the then-new Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee member Chuck McDew. They discuss the Black Muslim movement in the U.S., particularly how it is a reaction to generations of white racism.