University of California, Berkeley

  • The humanities and prejudice

    This contains a recording of “The humanities and prejudice,” the principal address of the third session of the Centennial symposium at the University of California at Berkeley is given by author and educator Dr. Saunders Redding. Redding is introduced by chairman of the session, Leo Lowenthal, professor of sociology at the University of California, Berkeley.

  • The schools and prejudice (Part 1 of 2)

    In this fourth session of the University of California at Berkeley Centennial symposium, the topic is “The Schools and Prejudice.” Marie Fielder, director of the Leadership Training Institute in Problems of School Desegregation, is the chair of the session. Speakers are M. Brewster Smith, director of the Institute for Human Development at U.C. Berkeley, Charles…

  • The schools and prejudice (Part 2 of 2)

    This is the second reel of “The Schools and Prejudice,” the fourth session of the University of California at Berkeley’s Centennial symposium. Marie Fielder chairs the session, is the chair of the session. Speakers are M. Brewster Smith, director of the Institute for Human Development at U.C. Berkeley, Charles Silberman, director of the Carnegie Study…

  • The mass media and prejudice

    This is the fifth part of the University of California’s centennial symposium. Dore Schary, motion picture producer and writer, is the moderator, and panelists are James Bassett, director of the editorial pages of the Los Angeles Times; Ernest Dunbar, senior editor of Look; Ben Holman, Associate Director for Media Relations, Community Relations Service of the…

  • Industry and prejudice

    This is the sixth session of the University of California’s Centennial symposium. The chairman of the meeting is Lloyd Ulman, director of the Institute of Industrial Relations at U.C. Berkeley, and the featured address is by Howard J. Samuels, Under Secretary of Commerce in the U.S. Dept. of Commerce.

  • We can change the world / produced by Laurie Garrett.

    On the student protest movement which followed the invasion of Cambodia: the Kent State and Jackson State riots, the Black Panthers, Berkeley. Includes actuality.

  • Injustices in our legal system today / Charles Garry

    Charles Garry, attorney for the Black Panther Party and other counter culture movements, speaks on the role of attorneys in the failing criminal justice system to an audience of law students and others in Pauley Ballroom at University of California Berkeley on November 11, 1971. The recording of this talk was made available to KPFA…

  • Eldridge Cleaver’s speech at a noon rally

    Actuality of Eldridge Cleaver’s speech at the University of California, Berkeley campus in response to Governor Ronald Reagan’s cancellation of proposed U.C. Berkeley class 139X, for which Cleaver was scheduled to be a lecturer.

  • Early civil rights movement: a mid-century inventory (Part 1 of 2)

    The first in a series of ten lectures delivered by distinguished professors from around the nation on African Americans’ struggle against poverty, ignorance, and prejudice, and contributions to American culture. The talks were delivered during a ten-day seminar sponsored by the U.C.-Berkeley Extension Service. This first lecture is a scholarly and humorous presentation of the…

  • Herbert Marcuse and Angela Davis at Berkeley

    Excerpt from a rally at University of California Berkeley featuring speeches by philosopher and political theorist Herbert Marcuse (1898 – 1979) and political activist and scholar Angela Davis (1944 – ). The rally was in support of Davis whose appointment to the faculty of U.C. Berkeley was challenged by the University of California Board of…