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Y:\NHPRC1 American Women files\GBlood complete drive_2_20140528_Batch 1_B
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Dolores Costello hosts a special program on the Harlem Six, and the torture and persecution of them and their mothers from 1964-1971. Thanks to Mimi Schoeffer (sp?) for the tapes of the play that was put on at town hall in support of the Six in 1964. The music is by Max Roach, songs are by Abby Lincoln, and it's called The Freedom Suite. The first reel contains excerpts from a benefit that was given at Town Hall in 1964 in support of the Harlem Six. The performance includes interviews with eye witnesses, overlapped with the sounds of actors acting out the scenes; an actor reading the transcripts of radio news reports from the time; a speech begins at about 00:29:30; and then another musical performance. This is all I could find about the event: "A group of six young African-American and Hispanic teenage men from the 1960s who were wrongly accused for heavy crimes that took place on 125th Street and Madison Avenue in Harlem, New York, two of whom where murdered without evidence to support the charges." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harlem_6 From what I can tell, some kids knocked over a fruit stand, some white cops started beating the kids, and when people from the neighborhood questioned the cops of why they were beating up the kids, the cops turned on them, too. I couldn't find anything about the "torture of mothers."
The excerpts of the performance are intermixed with a man speaking (it sounds like into a microphone, possibly from the same performance), but some of the edits seem abrupt and cut off in mid-sentence. Sound sometimes wavers between channels throughout program.
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music in part A a little warbly. not sure if it's ossie davis narrating the performance or not. originally with the KPFA recordings, but it's WBAI.
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