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This brief series documents examines violent events and police violence in and around the all-Black community of El Pueblo near Pittsburg, California in April 1968. During the incident the police surrounded the area, gunfire was exchanged for several hours, and a state of emergency was declared.

A documentary of the violence and looting in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Watts, prepared from field recordings made on the scene by Al Silbowitz and Walter Thompson in August 1965. Includes interviews with spectators and participants in the looting, spokesmen for the Black Muslims and for civil rights groups, and critics of the Los Angeles Police Department.

Comedian Dick Gregory, boxer Muhammad Ali, and Donald Warren, head of the Afro-American Association in Oakland, speak on the need for self-identity among American Blacks at this public meeting which opened CORE's national 1967 convention. Gregory's topics are white supremacy and social injustice.

Pauline Jones reads from Billie Holiday's autobiography, with recorded songs by Holiday played throughout the program. The program was created as a memorial to be played on the anniversary of Billie Holiday's death. In the KPFA Folio, the program was originally described as being read by Henrietta Harris. Part one.

Marshall Windmiller, professor of International Relations at San Francisco State College, produced this documentary history comprised of interviews with Japanese-Americans who explore their personal experiences. “The Japanese in California,” was the first in a series of documentaries on minorities on the West Coast to be produced by KPFA on a grant from the Columbia Foundation. Part one.