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African Americans--Civil rights--History

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BB4525C Free Huey rally in Los Angeles (Part 3)

On February 18, 1968, the day after Huey P. Newton's birthday, a group of Black Power and...

KPFK, 1968-02-27
BB1708 Free Huey rally in Oakland

H. Rap Brown (Jamil Al-Amin) and Stokely Carmichael deliver speeches at a Free Huey rally on...

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The digitized version of this recording is on two CDs.

KPFA 1968-04-08
BB0520.05 Gandhi invades the South / Edward Keating, Ira Sandperl, and Roy Kepler.

The panel discusses the use of nonviolence by Southern Blacks in the Civil Rights movement. This...

KPFA, 13 Oct. 1965.
BB2246.11 George Schuyler (Episode 11 of 14)

Ted Vincent discusses George S. Schuyler, a young socialist of the early 1920s who gradually...

KPFA, 24 Oct. 1967
BC0004A Getting it together / George Jackson (Part 1 of 2)

Dr. George Jackson, a prominent Black psychologist, speaks on the struggle for Black liberation...

7 Oct. 1970.
BC0004B Getting it together / George Jackson (Part 2 of 2)

Dr. George Jackson, a prominent Black psychologist, speaks on the struggle for Black liberation...

7 Oct. 1970
BB0316 Growth of the Black Muslim movement in the U.S. / C. Eric Lincoln.

Scholar and minister C. Eric Lincoln delivers a speech on the growing black nationalist movement...

KPFA, 6 Dec. 1962.
BB1910 Gwendolyn Brooks and LeRoi Jones poetry reading

This is a recording of the session during which Gwendolyn Brooks and LeRoi Jones (Amiri Baraka)...

American Women -- Poetry, American Women -- Women of Color and discrimination KPFA, 3 Oct. 1964.
BB2246.07 Harry Haywood and the African Blood Brotherhood (Episode 7 of 14)

Ted Vincent explores the work of Harry Haywood (born Haywood Hall), who, in addition to being a...

KPFA, 27 Sept. 1967
BB1480 Has the world changed?

Attorney William L. Patterson (also known as Mr. Civil Rights) discusses with Elsa Knight...

KPFA, 21 Feb. 1968.
AZ1025 Herbert Marcuse and Angela Davis at Berkeley

Excerpt from a rally at University of California Berkeley featuring speeches by philosopher and...

American Women -- Activists, American Women -- Women of Color and discrimination 1969?.
BB0170 How to be sane though negro

San Francisco State semanticist (not African American) Dr. S. I. Hayakawa discusses the problem...

KPFA, 23 Feb. 1958. First broadcast August 9, 1956.
BB2246.06 Hubert H. Harrison and Samuel A. Haynes (Episode 6 of 14)

Ted Vincent discusses Hubert H. Harrison, a socialist and Garveyite, who participated in the...

KPFA, 22 Sept 1967
BB2531 Huey Newton : August 11, 1970

Huey Newton, the founder and Minister of Defense of the Black Panther Party, is interviewed by...

14 Aug. 1970, 6 Sep. 1970
BC0239.06 Huey Newton statement read by Bobby Seale at KPFA

Statement written by Huey Newton, read by Bobby Seale, expressing grief at the death of George...

1971-08-22
BB5466 Huey Newton's birthday party

On February 16, 1969 at the Berkeley Community Theatre, a large crowd celebrated the birthday of...

KPFA, 1969-05-25
BB0898 Ideological forces in the work of Negro writers

Horace Cayton delivers a talk on the influence of Marxism, psychoanalysis, Negritude, and...

KPFA, 15 Aug. 1964.
BB5411 In memory of Martin Luther King Jr.

This is a recording of a portion of a memorial for Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. held on April 5,...

April 1968
BB1771.06 Industry and prejudice

This is the sixth session of the University of California's Centennial symposium. The...

9 Nov. 1968
BC0618 Injustices in our legal system today / Charles Garry

Charles Garry, attorney for the Black Panther Party and other counter culture movements, speaks...

KPFA, 11 Nov. 1971, 17 Jan. 1972
BB1774 Inside the Ku Klux Klan for the FBI

A talk by Reverend Delmar Dennis of Meridian, Mississippi, given July 30, 1968 under the...

KPFA, 19 Aug. 1968.
BB1771.07 Institutional strategies against prejudice

"Institutional Strategies Against Prejudice" is the topic for this concluding session...

16 Nov 1968
BB1772.01 Integration is impossible

Kenneth Goode, assistant to the executive vice-chancellor at University of California at...

KPFA 21 Jan 1969
BB5405 Intercommunal day of solidarity

On March 5, 1971, the Black Panther Party held an event at the Oakland Auditorium called "...

5 Mar. 1971.
BC0239.01 Interview with George Jackson

Interviewed three weeks before his death [August 21, 1971], George Jackson discusses prison...

August 22, 1971
BB0451 Introduction to the Garner case (Episode 2, Part 1 of 3)

This recording features Harry Kalven, Jr., of the University of Chicago Law School, and a panel...

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Sound quality is poor and fluctuates wildly for the first five minutes of the recording.

KPFA, 16 Feb. 1964.
BB1311 James Bevel on Black power

Reverend James Bevel of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference speaks on non-violence and...

KPFA, 29 Oct. 1966.
BB2246.13 James Weldon Johnson (Episode 13 of 14)

Ted Vincent discusses the life and work of poet, historian, and social critic James Weldon...

KPFA, 7 Nov. 1967
BB2250.06 Jeff Jones speaks (Episode 6 of 12)

Jeff Jones of Students for a Democratic Society outlines the changes needed in American society...

KPFA, 4 Aug. 1969.
BB1349A John Hope Franklin interviewed by William Swanberg (Part 1 of 2)

Dr. John Hope Franklin, author and professor of history at the University of Chicago, discusses...

KPFA, 3 Feb. 1971. First KPFA airing 1966-02-03.
BB1349B John Hope Franklin interviewed by William Swanberg (Part 2 of 2)

The conclusion of William Swanberg's interview with Dr. John Hope Franklin, author and...

KPFA, 3 Feb. 1966
BB4239 Julian Bond at Princeton

Speech by Julian Bond about the condition of Blacks in American society. He reads excerpts from...

WBAI, 1970.
BB0210 Kidnapping in North Carolina

A rebroadcast of Elsa Knight Thompson's and Mike Tigar's Eleventh Hour interview [May...

KPFA, 4 May 1962.
BC0239.02 KPFA News : the death of George Jackson

First news story on KPFA after the death of George Jackson, recorded and aired hours after he...

21 Aug. 1971.
BC0674A Lady Day : Billie Holiday (Part 1 of 2)

Years after her death in New York City, Billie Holiday's voice continues to captivate listeners...

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Record in box says "No cassette sales."

KPFA 17 July 1967, 24 Aug 1967
BC0674B Lady Day : Billie Holiday (Part 2 of 2)

Conclusion of the biographical program on the "Lady with the Gardenia". On this reel are the...

KPFA, 17 July 1967, 24 Aug 1967
BB0921 Lena Horne / interviewed by Gene De Alessi.

"Lena: a sound portrait of a multifaceted lady." Lena Horne (b. June 30, 1917; d. May...

American Women -- Music and musicians KPFA, 12 Apr. 1966.
BB4613 LeRoi Jones interviewed by Earl Anthony

Earl Anthony of the Black Panther Party interviews Black poet and playwright LeRoi Jones (Amiri...

KPFK, 8 May 1968.
BB0196 Let's all join the fight for freedom

Reverend Ralph Abernathy, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference leader who rose to...

KPFA, 9 June 1962.
BB0641 Living and growing in a white world

The author of Fire next time speaks to the students of Castlemont High School, a...

KPFA, 23 June 1963.
BB0416 Louis Lomax in San Francisco

Louis E. Lomax addresses a rally in San Francisco in late August 1963 of the United San...

KPFA, 20 Aug. 1963.
BB0118 Lunch counters and jails

W. H. Larkin, a member of the Congress of Racial Equality discusses the reasons for and...

KPFA, 3 June 1960.
BB2246.03 Marcus Garvey's relations with the Left (Episode 3 of 14)

In this third episode, Ted Vincent explores Marcus Garvey's relations with the Left and the...

KPFA, 31 Aug. 1967.
BB0351 Martin Luther King, Jr. letter from a Birmingham jail

The Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr.’s statement of April 16, 1963, addressed to his “fellow...

KPFA, 16 July 1963. First broadcast 1963-08-18.
BB0836A Memorial for Lady Day (Part 1 of 2)

Pauline Jones reads from Billie Holiday's autobiography, with recorded songs by Holiday...

KPFA, 17 July 1963.
BB0836B Memorial for Lady Day (Part 2 of 2)

Pauline Jones reads from Billie Holiday's autobiography, with recorded songs by Holiday...

KPFA, 17 July 1963.
BB0505 Memorial service for James Chaney

Actuality of a service for a slain civil rights worker, James Chaney, held in his home town in...

KPFA, 28 Aug. 1964.
BB1775 Mississippi today

In this interview with Paul Brest, who was an attorney with the NAACP Legal Defense and...

KPFA, 23 July 1968.
BC0239.07 Mrs. Georgia Jackson

George Jackson's mother speaks out about the killing of her son on August 22, 1971, the day...

KPFA, 22 Aug. 1971.
BB0158 My poetry, my life

Langston Hughes speaks to a live audience, interspersing stories from his life, including his...

KPFA, 24 Jan. 1959.
BB1779 National Unitarian Black Caucus

In this discussion of the work of the Black Caucus to achieve racial equality, three members of...

KPFA, 7 Apr. 1968.
BB0209 Negro-white relations in the United States (Episode 1 of 4)

Part one of a four-part series wherein the producers present material from the Pacifica Archives...

KPFA, 22 May 1962.
AZ0074A Nine years later: a Black panel on racism and civil rights since the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. part 1

Large panel discussion on the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Dr. King Jr.'s...

KPFA, 4 Apr. 1977
AZ0074B Nine years later: a Black panel on racism and civil rights since the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. part 2

Large panel discussion on the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Dr. King Jr.'s...

KPFA, 4 Apr. 1977
BB2130 On busing : Richmond School Board, December 18, 1968

A recording of the dramatic meeting of the Richmond Unified School Board in which compulsory...

KPFA, 5 Jan. 1969.
BB1540 On freedom road / by Reverend Ralph Abernathy.

The Rev. Ralph Abernathy speaking at a rally following the opening of lunch counters to Negroes...

KPFK, 6 Nov. 1960. KPFA, 10 Nov. 1960.
BB0115 On the power of peaceful persuasion speech by Martin Luther King Jr.

Speech by Martin Luther King, Jr. on the use of nonviolence in the civil rights movement...

KPFA, 1 Aug. 1957.
BB1694 One night in Newark

Report and actuality of a night of race rioting in Newark, New Jersey in July 1967. Produced by...

KPFA, 1967-07-21, 1967-09-01; WBAI 1967-09-04
BB2508 Otis Brown Jr. of Indianola, Mississippi

This is an autobiographical statement from a young Southern Black organizer on his experiences...

29 Aug. 1970.
BB5373 Panthers in Algiers vs. the National Party organization.

Eldridge Cleaver, Don Cox, Pete O'Neill, Larry Mack, Seiku Odinga, Barbara Cox, Kathleen...

WBAI, 5 Mar. 1971.
BC0144 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...

KPFA, 7 June 1971.
BB0534 Paul Robeson : world citizen / interviewed by Elsa Knight Thompson and Harold Winkler.

Paul Robeson, noted actor and political activist, relates his personal history and views in this...

KPFA, 8 Feb. 1958. First in KPFA Folio, 1958-03-06.
BB2250.10 People's health and fascism (Episode 10 of 12)

Dr. Richard Fine of the Medical Committee for Human Rights speaks on the health danger of a...

KPFA, 24 Nov. 1969.
BB0482 Philistinism and the Negro writer

Poet and playwright LeRoi Jones (a.k.a. Amiri Baraka) delivers a speech at the Negro Writers...

KPFA, 7 Aug. 1964. First KPFA broadcast 1964-09-30
BB1782 Police fire on Black Panther headquarters

KPFA's Colin Edwards reports on the police attack on the Black Panther Party headquarters...

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Sensitive language: shit

1968-09-10
BB2250.07 Preacher-man speaks (Episode 7 of 12)

Preacher-Man, field secretary of the Young Patriots in Chicago, talks about the rights of Blacks...

KPFA, 22 Nov. 1969.
BC0239.08A Press conference at San Quentin (Part 1 of 2)

This recording begins with interviews with George Jackson's mother Georgia Jackson, and...

KPFA, 23 Aug. 1971.
BC0239.08B Press conference at San Quentin (Part 2 of 2)

Continuation of the press conference held at San Quentin the day after George Jackson was shot...

KPFA, 23 Aug. 1971.
BB0473 Quotas for negroes: insult or compensation? (Episode 7)

This is a recording of one of six panel discussions held at the Center for the Study of...

KPFA, 19 Mar. 1964.
BB1633 Race and the grand jury

Examination of the Berkeley City Council's proposed resolution by Councilman Ron Dellums on...

KPFA, 1968-02-20, 1968-04-10
BB0235 Race rebuilding and the renewal of life

Architect and Architectural Forum editor Allan Temko discusses desegregated and affordable...

KPFA, 21 Apr. 1962.
BB0509 Race, class, and politics

C. Wilson Record, professor of sociology at Sacramento State College and race relations...

KPFA, 5 Sept. 1964.
BB0440.06 Race: an absurd classification

This is a recording of William McCord, associate professor of sociology at Stanford University,...

KPFA, 23 Aug. 1964.
BB1772.05 Racism in perspective

Ronald V. Dellums, Berkeley city councilman, speaking September 30 at Sacramento State College...

KPFA 20 Feb 1969
BB1783 Rally for the Oakland Seven

This is a recording of speeches given at a rally held in support of the seven men indicted on...

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Previously written in catalog record: "Held on February 17, 1968 at the Oakland Auditorium...

1968-03-26
BC0763 Ralph Abernathy and Angela Davis

Angela Davis, recently released from prison, is interviewed by civil rights leader Rev. Ralph...

American Women -- Women of Color and discrimination KPFA, Apr. 1972.
BB3807.01 Ralph Ellison testimony

Actuality of Ralph Ellison's testimony before the Senate subcommittee on executive...

WBAI, 24 Oct. 1966.
BB0826 Ralph Gleason interviewing Dick Gregory

Humorist and writer Dick Gregory discusses his participation in the Civil Rights movement. Ralph...

KPFA, 23 June 1963.
BB2250.12 Religion vs. fascism seminar (Episode 12 of 12)

Portions of the Religion versus Fascism seminar held on Saturday, July 20, 1969 at Bobby Hutton...

KPFA, 13 Aug. 1969 and 21 Nov. 1969.
WZ0152 Remembering George Jackson / Acklyn Lynch.

Political science professor discusses the significance of Jackson's life on the 6th...

WPFW, Aug. 1977.
BB1557A Report From Los Angeles (Part 1 of 2)

A documentary of the violence and looting in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Watts, prepared...

KPFA 1965-10-10
BB1557B Report From Los Angeles (Part 2 of 2)

A documentary of the violence and looting in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Watts, prepared...

KPFA 1965-10-10
BB0358 Report from the south - James Bevel

In the summer of 1963, KPFA, KPFK, and WBAI scheduled regular hours for news updates "from...

KPFA, 14 Aug. 1963
BC0242 Report on the deaths at San Quentin : 21 August, 1971.

A report on the events from August 27, 1971 through August 31, 1971 related to the death of...

8 Sept. 1971.
BB0388 Reverend Wyatt T. Walker

This is a three-part program on Administrative director of the Southern Christian Leadership...

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KPFA allowed for several "open hours" in their schedule every month, which they...

KPFA, 28 May 1963.
BB2246.12 Robert S. Abbott : middle-class Black Radicalism (Episode 12 of 14)

Ted Vincent discusses the efforts of Black middle-class radical Robert S. Abbott, who promoted...

KPFA, 31 Oct. 1967
BC0239.05A Roland Young, Seale, Craven on George Jackson (Part 1 of 2)

Roland Young moderates a discussion between Bobby Seale and Carolyn Craven on the implications...

KPFA, 22 Aug. 1971.
BC0239.05B Roland Young, Seale, Craven on George Jackson (Part 2 of 2)

Continuation of the panel discussion moderated by Roland Young, with guests Bobby Seale and...

KPFA, 22 Aug. 1971.
BB2250.05 Ron Dellums speaks (Episode 5 of 12)

Ron Dellums, Berkeley City Councilman outlines directions for change in American society at the...

KPFA, 1 Aug. 1969.
BC0239.04 Roundtable discussion

Al Silbowitz moderates a panel of reporters who had been at San Quentin and at Marin General...

KPFA, 21 Aug. 1971.
BB5133 Sadie and Maude / Jeanette Henderson and Linda Taylor

In this program of poetry, discussion and music dedicated to Angela Davis, two young Black women...

American Women -- Women of Color and discrimination, American Women -- Poetry KPFK, 8 Feb. 1971.
BC0239.03 San Quentin press conference

This recording begins with the reporter narrating the scene at San Quentin prison, such as...

KPFA, 21 Aug. 1971.
BB0274 Segregation and the law

In this recording, Elsa Knight Thompson and attorney Alex Hoffman interview attorney Len Holt....

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Additional notes from tape box:
He tells about how difficult it is for a Black to get a...

KPFA, 17 July 1962.
BB1706 Senator Robert Kennedy in Berkeley

Senator Robert Kennedy in Berkeley, delivering a political speech at the Greek Theater on the...

KPFA, 23 Oct. 1966. First in the Folio 1967-01-09
BB0440.05 Social consequences of discrimination

Historian and author Peter I. Rose delivers a talk on the social turmoil caused by...

KPFA, 16 Aug. 1964.
BC0243 Soledad Brother read by Christopher Brooks

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

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Note: Contains sensitive language.

December 1970, August 1971.
BB0215A Special program commemorating Negro History Week (Part 1 of 2)

Special program in honor of Negro History Week produced by Elsa Knight Thompson and Mike Tigar....

KPFA, 16 Feb. 1962
BB0215B Special program commemorating Negro History Week (Part 2 of 2)

Special program in honor of Negro History Week produced by Elsa Knight Thompson and Mike Tigar....

KPFA, 16 Feb. 1962
BB2365A Sproul Hall sit-in documentation 1968 (Part 1 of 2)

Actuality of the anti-racism demonstration at the Berkeley campus. In the fall of 1968, students...

KPFA, 22 Oct. 1968.
BB2365B Sproul Hall sit-in documentation 1968 (Part 2 of 2)

Actuality of the anti-racism demonstration at the Berkeley campus. In the fall of 1968, students...

KPFA, 22 Oct. 1968.
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