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African Americans--Civil rights--History

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PRA Archive # Titlesort descending Description Genre Broadcast Date
BB1781 Stokeley Carmichael

Stokely Carmichael addresses a meeting of the Black Panthers in Oakland, California, regarding...

KPFA, 25 Aug. 1968.
BB0720 Stokely Carmichael interview

Discussion with Stokely Carmichael of the Civil Rights movement and the growing participation of...

KPFA, 21 Apr. 1966.
BB1709 Stokely Carmichael on Black Power

Speech given by the chairman of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, Stokely...

KPFA, 30 Oct. 1966.
BB0882 Symposium on Richard Wright

Herbert Hill, Horace Cayton, Arna Bontemps, and Saunders Redding, who all knew Richard Wright...

KPFA, 20 Jan. 1965. First KPFA broadcast 1964-09-28.
BB1073 Tell it like it is: the young Negro writer

Poet and commentator LeRoi Jones (a.k.a. Amiri Baraka) discusses the prospects for the emerging...

KPFA, 23 June 1965. First KPFA broadcast 1964-09-24.
BB2250.11 Terry Cooper speaks (Episode 11 of 12)

Terry Cooper speaking at Bobby Hutton Memorial Park on July 20, 1969 on Black political activity...

KPFA, 24 Nov. 1969.
BB0718A The articulators of the Negro revolt (Part 1 of 2)

Part one of a documentary prepared for the CBC (Canada) and ABC (Australia) by Colin D. Edwards...

KPFA, 14 Apr. 1965.
BB0718B The articulators of the Negro revolt (Part 2 of 2)

Part two of a documentary prepared for the CBC (Canada) and ABC (Australia) by Colin D. Edwards...

KPFA, 14 Apr. 1965.
BB0249 The battle is not yet won

Ronnie Moore is interviewed by Elsa Knight Thompson in this recording. The student activist...

KPFA, 22 Mar. 1962. First Folio mention April 30, 1962.
BB1268 The Berkeley schools desegregate / produced by Lou Hartman.

A special report on the Berkeley school system, which became one of the first in California to...

KPFA, 21 Sept. 1967.
BB5474 The Black Panther Party in Sacramento

This recording is an actuality, including interviews, of events on May 2, 1968 surrounding a bus...

1968-05-03
BB1778 The California gold rush and Black immigration

African American amateur historian Elena Albert discusses the immigration of Blacks to...

KPFA, 22 May 1968.
BB1817 The church and Berkeley School integration

This is a special radio panel discussion regarding the role of organized religion in the...

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Note from box cover: "Beauchamp pronounced Bee'-chum"

KPFA, 25 June 1968.
BB1771.02A The churches and prejudice (Part 1 of 2)

The second session of the University of California, Berkeley centennial symposium deals with...

12 Oct. 1968
BB1771.02B The churches and prejudice (Part 2 of 2)

The second session of the University of California, Berkeley centennial symposium deals with...

12 Oct. 1968
BB0467 The Civil rights lawyer in the South

Thom Hurwitz interviews three lawyers who work for the NAACP National Legal Defense and...

WBAI, 27 Aug. 1964.
BB1230 The Civil rights movement and its goals of the future / Martin Luther King.

Martin Luther King, Jr. addresses the student body at Stanford University with his speech "...

KPFA, 18 June 1967.
BB0469 The Courts : correlations and contradictions

This is a recording of San Francisco attorney Howard Nemerovski in a studio recording of a talk...

KPFA, 21 Aug. 1964.
BC0239 The death of George Jackson

George Jackson, one of the Soledad Brothers, was killed in San Quentin prison on August 21, 1971...

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part 1: Interview with George Jackson, July 28, 1971 -- part 2: KPFA news update, leading with...

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All reels have been digitized. See each part's record for ordering information.

August 21-23, 1971 and August 31, 1971.
BC0669 The end of the Soledad Brothers trial

Documentary on the trial and verdict of the two surviving Soledad brothers. John Clutchette and...

KPFA, 1972-05-01.
BB5380.03 The family (Episode 3 of 5)

This is the third in a five-part documentary series or "audiomosaic" as the producers...

KPFK, 1964-10-28
BB0440.03A The first emancipation (Part 1 of 2)

Stanley Elkins, associate professor of history at Smith College and the author of “The First...

KPFA, 6 Aug. 1964.
BB0440.03B The first emancipation (Part 2 of 2)

The KPFA programmers once again found themselves with time left in their allotted slot after...

KPFA, 6 Aug. 1964.
BB2587 The funeral of Jonathan Jackson and William Christmas

The funeral service of Jonathan Peter Jackson (1953-1970) and William Arthur Christmas (1943-...

1970-08-17, 1970-10-20
BB0460 The Garner case (Episode 4, Part 3 of 3)

This is the third and concluding episode on the Garner vs. Louisiana case, and the fourth of 13...

KPFA, 23 Jan. 1964. First in KPFA Folio 1964-02-18
BB1771.03 The humanities and prejudice

This contains a recording of "The humanities and prejudice," the principal address of...

KPFA 19 Oct 1968
BB0440.07 The Image of America and the Negro abroad

St. Clair Drake, professor of sociology and head of the department of African Affairs at...

KPFA, 6 Sept. 1964.
BC0226 The Last Poets : live at the Harding Theatre

This recording of the Last Poets performing live at the Harding Theatre in San Francisco on...

KPFA, 14 June 1971.
BB0060 The long road / Frank Wilkinson interviewed by Elsa Knight Thompson

Civil rights leader tells about his life and work.

KPFA Folio note, April 10-23, 1961, p...

KPFA, 12 Apr. 1961.
BB1771.05 The mass media and prejudice

This is the fifth part of the University of California's centennial symposium. Dore Schary,...

KPFA 2 Nov. 1968
BB1772.02A The need for action (Part 1 of 2)

Father James E. Groppi, a white Roman Catholic priest leading a black militant group in...

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KPFA Folio note, February 1969: Father James E. Groppi, a white Roman Catholic priest, is a...

KPFA 27 Dec 1968
BB1772.02B The need for action (Part 2 of 2)

Father James E. Groppi, a white Roman Catholic priest leading a black militant group in...

KPFA 27 Dec 1968
BB1217 The Negro heritage in American history

Paul F. Lawrence, Associate Superintendent for Higher Education, California Department of...

KPFA, 3 May 1966.
BB0119 The Negro lawyer in the South

James R. Walker, Jr. of the North Carolina Bar speaks before the session devoted to the lawyer...

KPFA, 14 Oct. 1960.
BB5284 The Negro woman in American literature (Episode 2 of 12)

This program from the "Negro Writer's Vision of America" conference held April 23...

American Women -- Women of Color and discrimination, American Women -- Authors and journalists WBAI, 13 June 1965; KPFK, 23 Sept. 1965.
BB1070 The Negro writer in America

On the second day of the Negro writers' conference held at Asilomar, KPFA reporters Kenneth...

KPFA, 6 Aug. 1964.
BB0897 The New equality

Late in the evening of the second day of the Asilomar conference, Al Silbowitz moderated this...

KPFA, 6 Aug. 1964.
BB5380.05A The out (Episode 5 of 5, part 1 of 2)

This is the fifth and final installment in the five-part documentary series or "audiomosaic...

KPFK, 1964-11-02
BB5380.05B The out (Episode 5 of 5, part 2 of 2)

This is the conclusion of the fifth and final installment in the five-part documentary series...

KPFK, 1964-11-02
BB1771.01A The persistence of American prejudice (Part 1 of 2)

This recording is of the opening session of the centennial symposium held at the University of...

5 Oct. 1968
BB1771.01B The persistence of American prejudice (Part 2 of 2)

This is part two of the opening session of the centennial symposium held at the University of...

5 Oct. 1968
BB2246.09 The Poston family: a history of Black Radicalism (Episode 9 of 14)

Ted Vincent traces the family history of the Postons, from the patriarch Ephraim Poston through...

KPFA, 10 Oct. 1967
BC0243.01 The prison letters of George Jackson (Part 1 of 3)

Christopher Brooks, a black actor with the Magic Theatre in Berkeley, reads excerpts from the...

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This program has been distributed by Pacifica and was provided by KPFA in Berkeley.

December 1970
BC0243.02 The prison letters of George Jackson (Part 2 of 3)

Christopher Brooks, a black actor with the Magic Theatre in Berkeley, reads excerpts from the...

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This program has been distributed by Pacifica and was provided by KPFA in Berkeley.

December 1970
BC0243.03 The prison letters of George Jackson (Part 3 of 3)

Christopher Brooks, a black actor with the Magic Theatre in Berkeley, reads excerpts from the...

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This program has been distributed by Pacifica and was provided by KPFA in Berkeley.

December 1970.
BB0466 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...

KPFA, 13 July 1964.
BB1771.04A The schools and prejudice (Part 1 of 2)

In this fourth session of the University of California at Berkeley Centennial symposium, the...

KPFA 26 Oct 1968
BB1771.04B The schools and prejudice (Part 2 of 2)

This is the second reel of "The Schools and Prejudice," the fourth session of the...

KPFA 26 Oct 1968
BC0646 The sister's been doing her homework / Betty Shabazz

Mrs. Betty Shabazz (May 28, 1934 – June 23, 1997), educator, activist, and wife of Malcolm X,...

American Women -- Women of Color and discrimination, American Women -- Activists, American Women -- Relatives of notable men KPFA, 20 May 1971.
BB0117 The sit-ins and the New South

Priscilla Stephens, winner of the Gandhi Award from the National Congress of Racial Equality...

KPFA, 12 Sept. 1960.
BB4803 The Slaying of George Jackson : response in the Black community of Los Angeles.

Edward Dino McZeal and James Standifer discuss the official report on Jackson's slaying and...

KPFK, 27 Aug. 1971.
BB0900 The tradition of Negro writing

Talk by Saunders Redding on the history of Black literature from caricature to protest to...

KPFA, 21 Sept. 1964.
BC0923 The trial of the San Quentin six

Documentary on the six Black and Chicano prisoners who, following George Jackson's death,...

KPFA, 17 Aug. 1972.
BB0116 The unions and discrimination

This is a recording of the floor debate at the 1959 National AFL-CIO convention regarding a...

KPFA, 31 Oct. 1959.
BB1523 The Virginia "freedom of choice" school plan / Leon Dure ; interviewed by Ray Niblack

Discussion of Virginia's school desegregation plan and whether or not it complies with the...

KPFA, 10 Apr. 1961.
BB1525 The Walking Negroes of Montgomery / Robert Schutz, Reverend L. Roy Bennett.

Robert Schutz interviews Rev. L. Roy Bennett, formerly of Montgomery, Alabama, now minister...

KPFA, 10 Jan. 1957.
BC0326 The wall (Episode 4 of 5)

In 1964, Leonard Brown and a team of volunteers created this five-part "audiomosaic"...

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Previously Tape A (25:45) and Tape B (29:15). The two were joined into one tape in 1997.
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KPFK, 1964-10-30.
BB1777 The White man's stake in Black liberation

Carl Braden of the Southern Conference Educational Fund speaking in support of racial equality...

KPFA, 19 Dec. 1968.
BB0884 The Wonderful world of law and order

Actor-playwright Ossie Davis at the conference "The Negro writer in the United States,...

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"The Negro writer in the United States" was a five-day seminar hosted by the...

KPFA, 1964-10-01
BB0899 The writer in contemporary American society

Talk by Harvey Swados on the role of Black authors in American society given at "The Negro...

KPFA, 27 Sept. 1964.
BB4702 Thirty years of civil rights education in the South / Myles Horton.

Highlander Folk School, founded in 1932, began as an educational resource for adults fighting...

KPFK, 20 Mar. 1964.
BC1267 To mourn Fred Hampton is to move forward for the people / Elaine Brown ; interviewed by Larry Bensky.

Representative from the Black Panther Party Central Headquarters in Oakland discusses the growth...

KPFA, 4 Dec. 1972.
BB3142 Tribute to Ella Baker

The Southern Conference Education Fund's annual dinner held in April at the Roosevelt Hotel...

American Women -- Activists, American Women -- Women of Color and discrimination WBAI, 20 July 1968.
BB1784.01A Violence in a black community (Part 1 of 3)

This brief series documents examines violent events and police violence in and around the all-...

KPFA, 7 Sept. 1968
BB1784.01B Violence in a black community (Part 2 of 3)

This is the second part of the first installment of the documentary series on the police...

KPFA, 7 Sept. 1968.
BB1784.01C Violence in a black community (Part 3 of 3)

Documentary on the police violence in and around the all Black community of El Pueblo near...

KPFA, 7 Sept. 1968.
BB2246.10 W.E.B. DuBois (Episode 10 of 14)

Ted Vincent discusses the life and work of W.E.B. DuBois, author, scholar, and founder of the...

KPFA, 17 Oct. 1967
BB0270 Walk to freedom

A documentary on Albany, Georgia, featuring field recordings made by Guy Carawan and Alan Lomax...

KPFA, 1962-06-22
BB1071 What the Negro writer is not saying / Nat Hentoff.

Jazz critic and author Nat Hentoff speaks on the contradictions in American Black writing. At...

KPFA, 22 Sept. 1964.
BB3075 Whatsoever a man soweth

This is a documentary on the Mississippi Civil Rights workers Michael Schwerner, James Chaney,...

WBAI, 26 June 1964.
BB1830 Whitney Young on civil rights

Whitney Young Jr., executive director of the Urban League, speaking on civil rights at the 28th...

KPFA, 24 Aug. 1968.
BC1211 Whose freedom next? / Tom Wicker

This is a recording of the 1972 Carlos Kelly McClatchy Memorial Lecture "Whose freedom next...

KPFA, 5 Feb. 1973.
BB2250.04 William Kunstler speaks (Episode 4 of 12)

Militant speech on the need for radical change in America. Bill Kunstler, one of the lawyers...

KPFA, 30 July 1969.
BB2246.14 William Monroe Trotter (Episode 14 of 14)

In the last episode of the 14-part series, Ted Vincent discusses William Monroe Trotter, a civil...

KPFA, 11 Nov. 1967
BB2250.03 Women speak out against fascism (Episode 3 of 12)

A panel at the conference called by the Black Panther Party the weekend of July 18-20 in Oakland...

American Women -- Women of Color and discrimination, American Women -- Activists, American Women -- Work and unions KPFA, 11 Aug. 1969
BB1773 X-ray procedures and Black people

Chester Aaron, chief technologist of the X-ray department at Alta Bates Hospital in Berkeley,...

KPFA, 16 Jun. 1968
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