Ted Vincent discusses Hubert H. Harrison, a socialist and Garveyite, who participated in the Harlem Renaissance, as well as Samuel Alfred Haynes, a Garveyite columnist with a noteworthy social consciousness.
Father James E. Groppi, a white Roman Catholic priest leading a black militant group in Milwaukee known as the Commandos, addresses the Racism in America symposium at Sacramento State College, October 3, 1968. Part two. This section includes a question and answer session that follows Groppi's talk.
George Jackson's mother speaks out about the killing of her son on August 22, 1971, the day after his death, and the lack of response from authorities at the prison where he was shot. This press conference at the Soledad Brothers Defense Committee was broadcast live. Questions are also asked of members of the Defense Committee, including George Jackson's sister Penny, and Mrs. Jackson's attorney Ed Bell, regarding their plans for pursuing justice regarding Jackson's death.
Paul F. Lawrence, Associate Superintendent for Higher Education, California Department of Education, speaking before the California Council of Social Studies on February 26, 1966 regarding the lack of African-American representation in American classrooms. He is introduced by Janet Ross, Historian of the Council. This program concludes the series from the 1966 Conference of the California Council for the Social Studies. The annual conference of the California Council for the Social Studies wa......
Sydney Roger talks on the problems facing Black youths.
"Institutional Strategies Against Prejudice" is the topic for this concluding session of U.C.'s centennial symposium on March 26, 1968. The moderator is Earl Babbie (printed as Babby in the Folio), Symposium Planning committee, and the speakers are Walter Wagoner, Associate Dean of the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley; Marie Fielder, director of the Leadership Training Institute in Problems of School Desegregation; Aileen C. Hernandez of San Francisco State University; Mr. Olson from Ca......
Adam Clayton Powell delivers a speech to 4,000 students in the lower plaza of the Student Union at the Berkeley Campus of the University of California, recorded on Friday, January 12, 1968. Powell speaks about Black power, and he speaks against the Vietnam war.
Portions of the Religion versus Fascism seminar held on Saturday, July 20, 1969 at Bobby Hutton Park in Oakland. The moderator is Reverend A. Cecil Williams of Glide Memorial Methodist Church in San Francisco. The speakers are Father Earl Neil of St. Augustine's Church in Oakland; Father Eugene Boyle of Sacred Heart in San Francisco; Reverend Dick York of the Free Church in Berkeley; and Rabbi Abraham Feinberg from Toronto, Canada. The panelists discuss the responsibility of religious leaders......
Black Panther Party attorney Charles Garry gives a talk at a benefit for the Black Panther Party [on the need for aggressive Black political action] held at the Berkeley Community Theater on December 21, 1969.
Leon Litwack is a historian, associate professor of history at University of Wisconsin, author of the book North of Slavery: the Negro in the free states, 1790-1860, and at the time this speech was delivered, was about to begin a term as visiting professor at University of California, Berkeley. In this recording, Litwack gives the talk "Emerging patterns of discrimination in 19th century America," speaking on the roots of current (at the time) Jim Crow practices.
Dr. Richard Fine of the Medical Committee for Human Rights speaks on the health danger of a repressive government at the United Front Against Fascism conference called by the Black Panther Party. Recorded in Oakland, 1969-07-20. Contains obscenities.
This is the conclusion of the fifth and final installment in the five-part documentary series about the ghettos and race relations in Los Angeles. This recording begins with a job placement staffer talking about how he helps all of his applicants of various ethnic backgrounds get better jobs and opportunities they didn't know they could access, and the diversity of applicants who come to his office for assistance. A man discusses how the social limitations of the ghetto affect education and t......
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.
Continuation of the panel discussion moderated by Roland Young, with guests Bobby Seale and Carolyn Craven, regarding the death of George Jackson. This part of the program consists of panel interaction with listeners calling in, including a statement from the Prisoner Solidarity Committee of New York, who announce an upcoming demonstration in New York.
On February 18, 1968, the day after Huey P. Newton's birthday, a group of Black Power and civil rights activists held a rally in Los Angeles at the Sports Arena in honor of Newton's birthday and to show support while Newton was incarcerated for manslaughter. Speakers Bobby Seale, H. Rap Brown (Jamil Al-Amin), and Stokely Carmichael delivered the same speeches in Los Angeles that they gave the day before at the Oakland Auditorium. They were also joined by Los Angeles-area activists. This reel ......
The second session of the University of California, Berkeley centennial symposium deals with "The Churches and Prejudice." Chairing the meeting is Walter Wagoner, associate dean of the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley. The participants are Charles Y. Glock, chairman of the sociology department at U.C. Berkeley; Rodney Stark, research sociologist, University of California at Berkeley; Theodore M. Hesburgh, president of the University of Notre Dame; David Noel Freedman of the San Francisc......
Speech given on April 16, 1968 by Bobby Seale, Black Panther chairman, during a Black Panther meeting in defense of Huey Newton, fellow co-founder of the Black Panther Party. The speech was delivered at the Kaleidoscope, a largely white nightclub in Los Angeles.
Ted Vincent traces the family history of the Postons, from the patriarch Ephraim Poston through three leading Garveyites, Robert Lincoln Poston, Ulysses Grant Poston, and Arthur Poston, to a leading New Dealer and columnist for the New York Post, Ted (Theodore Roosevelt) Poston.
This is the third and concluding episode on the Garner vs. Louisiana case, and the fourth of 13 episodes of the Law and Society series, produced by Florence Mischel from an extensive study conducted in the summer of 1963 at the Conference of law, jurisprudence, and the Bill of Rights, held at the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions in Santa Barbara, California. This episode, like the others in the Garner analysis, focuses on the legalities of nonviolent demonstrations by Blacks fi......
A panel at the conference called by the Black Panther Party the weekend of July 18-20 in Oakland. Panel speakers are Roberta Alexander, Marlene Dixon, Evelyn Harris, Carol Henry, Penny Nakatsu, and Carol Thomas. Panel is introduced by Marie Johnson. Originally aired during KPFA's Open Hour, 1969-08-11. Contains obscenities. Reel two of two.
