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Self Respect, Self Defense & Self Determination - Full program
Date: 3/14/2004Call Number: Format: Video ClipProducers: Freedom ArchivesCollection: Mabel and Robert F. Williams
An event held at the First Congregational Church in Oakland on Sunday, March 14, 2004 with Mabel Williams and Kathleen Cleaver. Both women were welcomed and introduced by Angela Davis. These two inspiring women of the 60s Black Liberation struggle met to share their personal experiences - resisting the KKK and police repression, forced into exile government repression, and their international experiences in Third World nations. Mabel Williams, with her late husband Robert F. Williams, met with Malcolm X, Ho Chi Minh, Che Guevara and Mao Tse Tung to help internationalize support for the Black Liberation Movement. Kathleen Cleaver was Communications Secretary and the first woman on the Central Committee of the Black Panther Party.
Mabel Williams on Being in the Shadow of her Husband
Date: 3/14/2004Call Number: Format: Video ClipProducers: Freedom ArchivesCollection: Mabel and Robert F. Williams
Mabel Williams talks about "being in the shadow" of her husband, Robert F. Williams. Mabel speaks on the importance of unity in the struggle, love for all people and setting a positive example for our children.
Kathleen Cleaver COINTELPRO 101 Extra Footage
Kathleen Cleaver became involved in the civil rights movement. In 1967 she left college to work full-time for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). The following year she met Eldridge Cleaver and moved from New York to San Francisco to join the Black Panther Party (BPP).
Kathleen Cleaver became the BPP's National Communications Secretary and helped to organize the campaign to get Huey Newton released from prison. She was also the first woman to be appointed to the Black Panthers Central Committee.
Kathleen continues to struggle for civil and human rights and teaches law at Emory University.
Mabel Williams on Armed Self-Defense and the Klan
Date: 3/14/2004Call Number: Format: Video ClipProducers: Freedom ArchivesCollection: Mabel and Robert F. Williams
Mabel Williams speaks on the racist and dangerous conditions in Monroe, North Carolina that necessitated armed self-defense for the Black Community. She also talks about how her husband (Robert F. Williams) on one hand knew that the law was not made to protect Black people but on the other hand used it to his advantage when it came to the right to bear arms.
Mabel Williams on the Beginnings of Radio Free Dixie
Date: 3/14/2004Call Number: Format: Video ClipProducers: Freedom ArchivesCollection: Mabel and Robert F. Williams
Mabel Williams recounts the story behind the beginnings of Radio Free Dixie when her and her husband Robert were living in Cuba.
Mabel Williams Recounts the Story of Her Family's Flight from Monroe to Cuba.
Date: 3/14/2004Call Number: Format: Video ClipProducers: Freedom ArchivesCollection: Mabel and Robert F. Williams
Mabel Williams recounts the story of how her family was forced to flee their home in Monroe, North Carolina. She specifically mentions the importance of the networks that they ha previously established and how those friends were vital in sustaining the family during their flight and eventually getting them to Cuba.
Frente Conference - San Francisco 1975 (video clip)
Conference intended to unite and highlight revolutionary cultural workers and the power of cultural work.
MC- Merle Goldstone
5 Bay Area muralists - Jane Norling, Peggy Tucker, Art Williams, Consuela Mendez, Tim Dresmend
UCLA student (unidentified) - Poem
Lincoln Bergman KPFA and KPOO Third World Programming - role that radio played in the Cuban Revolution
Chui - critique of audience for not including people in prison
Hilton Obenzinger - poetry
May 4th Singers (from I-Hotel Struggle)
SF Mime Troupe- theater collective - "The Mother"- on farm-workers and unions
Melodie and Lonnie speak on the play, the process and challenges of developing revolutionary culture.
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