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The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution [DVD]
Date: 2/16/2016Call Number: V 816Format: DVDProducers: Stanley Nelson, Laurens GrantCollection: Videos – camera originals and reference materials
Change was coming to America and the fault lines were no longer ignorable — cities were burning, Vietnam was exploding, and disputes raged over equality and civil rights. A new revolutionary culture was emerging and it sought to drastically transform the system. The Black Panther Party for Self-Defense would, for a short time, put itself at the vanguard of that change.
Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975
Date: 1/1/2011Call Number: V 614Format: DVDProducers: Göran OlssonCollection: Videos – camera originals and reference materials
Footage shot by a group of Swedish journalists documenting the Black Power Movement in the United States is edited together by a contemporary Swedish filmmaker.
Terre-Haute Channel 2 NewsCast Report on prison demonstrations May 4, 1996
Date: 5/4/1996Call Number: V 617Format: VHSProducers: WTWD Channel 2 Terre HauteCollection: Videos – camera originals and reference materials
Short news report about demonstrations at Indiana State Prison in Carlisle and the United States Penitentiary in Terre Haute. The protesters were part of a national campaign against the death penalty, control units and the misuse of taxpayer resources. Interview with Sister Kathleen Desautels of 8th Day Center.
Historic Black Panther Party Film
Features interviews with Minister of Defense, Huey P. Newton (from Alameda County Jail), Eldridge Cleaver, Minister of Information, and Chairman Bobby Seale.
Also features scenes from a Black Panther rally at Hutton Memorial Park demanding the release of Mr. Newton.
Historic Black Panther Party Film
Features interviews with Minister of Defense, Huey P. Newton (from Alameda County Jail), Eldridge Cleaver, Minister of Information, and Chairman Bobby Seale. The film also features scenes from a Black Panther rally at Hutton Memorial Park demanding the release of Mr. Newton.
Black Panthers - Huey!
Date: 2/17/1968Call Number: V 366Format: DVDProducers: Agnes VardaCollection: Videos – camera originals and reference materials
Free Huey rally held on February 17th, 1968 (Newton's birthday). Over 5,000 people attended - speakers including Eldridge Cleaver, Bobby Seale, James Forman, Bob Avakian, Stokely Carmichael, H. Rap Brown and Ron Dellums. The speakers outline the Party's platform goals, their strategies for freeing Newton from jail and more.
Passin’ It On: The Story of a Black Panther’s Search for Justice
Date: 1/1/1993Call Number: V 269Format: DVDProducers: John ValadezCollection: Videos – camera originals and reference materials
Utilizing archival footage and personal accounts, PASSIN' IT ON offers insight into the politics which defined the generation that came of age during the Civil Rights movement. As many African-Americans - especially in urban centers like New York - sought rapid change in their communities, the Black Panthers emerged as a highly visible and often misunderstood symbol of this movement, and became targets for federal surveillance and police harassment. With testimonies from Dhoruba's attorneys, jurors at his trial, New York's then Deputy Police Commissioner, and Dhoruba himself, PASSIN' IT ON sheds light on the Panthers' real goals and addresses the much larger social issues which gave rise to the Panthers then, and which remain unsettled today.
As it examines broad themes of urban African-American life, PASSIN' IT ON tells Dhoruba's personal story. Following him from his South Bronx childhood through his activist days, prison experiences, and his current renewed involvement in the black community, the film provides a framework for recognizing his story as a caution against the excesses of state power. At a time when racial conflicts may once again build to a head, PASSIN' IT ON offers a view of where American society has been, and a glimpse at where it may be going.
The Ohio 7 On Trial
The Ohio 7 On Trial is a series of interviews from prison with the political prisoners accused of membership in the United Freedom Front (UFF). The UFF was an armed clandestine guerilla organization active in the late 1970s and early 1980s against US imperialism and intervention in Central America, and South African apartheid. It includes interviews with Ray Luc Levasseur, Pat Gros-Levasseur, Barbara Curzi-Laaman, Jaan Lehman, Carol Manning, Thomas Manning, ans Richard Williams.
Poor quality dub.
Black Panther (Off the Pig) and San Francisco State: On Strike
Date: 1/1/1969Call Number: V 313Format: DVDProducers: California NewsreelCollection: Videos – camera originals and reference materials
Black Panther
This is the film the Black Panthers used to promote their cause. Shot in 1969, in Oakland, San Francisco and Sacramento, this exemplar of 1960s activist filmmaking traces the development of the Black Panther organization. In an interview from jail, Minister of Defense Huey P. Newton describes the origins of the Panther Party, Eldridge Cleaver explains the Panthers' appeal to the Black community, and Chairman Bobby Seale enumerates the Panther 10-Point Program as Panthers march and demonstrate.
San Francisco State: On Strike
Ethnic studies courses are common today, but that hasn't always been the case. In many ways, multicultural education can be traced back to San Francisco in 1968-1969. In one of the most high-profile student actions of the 1960s, students at San Francisco State University went on strike, shutting down the campus for six months. University president S.I. Hayakawa called in the police, who busted heads and arrested hundreds in an attempt to restore control of the campus. But the strike didn't end until the school acceded to student demands and created the first ethnic studies department at an American university. This film, shot by the students and their allies, is a classic primary source document of the 1960s.
Frame Up! The Imprisonment of Martin Sostre
Year: 1974Call Number: V 779Format: DVDProducers: Pacific Street FilmsCollection: Videos – camera originals and reference materials
Documentary about Martin Sostre, a black Puerto Rican bookstore owner in Buffalo, N.Y., who was imprisoned in Attica State Prison for drug and assault charges. He claims he was framed and he appeals for a new trial based on new evidence presented by Arto Williams, a former witness, an appeal which is denied.
