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Welcome to the Freedom Archives' Digital Search Engine.The Freedom Archives contains over 12,000 hours of audio and video recordings which date from the late-1960s to the mid-90s and chronicle the progressive history of the Bay Area, the United States, and international movements. We are also in the process of scanning and uploading thousands of historical documents which enrich our media holdings. Our collection includes weekly news, poetry, music programs; in-depth interviews and reports on social and cultural issues; numerous voices from behind prison walls; diverse activists; and pamphlets, journals and other materials from many radical organizations and movements.

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The Liberation Hour: Self Respect, Self Defense & Self Determination The Liberation Hour: Self Respect, Self Defense & Self Determination
Date: 3/14/2004Call Number: CD 196Format: CDProducers: KPFKCollection: Mabel and Robert F. Williams
An edited program made for use at KPFK of the Oakland Event 3/14/2004 with Kathleen Cleaver and Mabel Williams.
Self Defense, Self Respect & Self Determination: A Conversation with Mabel Williams and Kathleen Cleaver - Part 1 Self Defense, Self Respect & Self Determination: A Conversation with Mabel Williams and Kathleen Cleaver - Part 1
Date: 3/14/2004Call Number: CD 171Format: CDProducers: NRPCollection: Mabel and Robert F. Williams
Self Defense, Self Respect & Self Determination: A Conversation with Mabel Williams and Kathleen Cleaver, introduced by Angela Davis. Addressing the subjugated history of the Black Liberation Movement.
Self Defense, Self Respect & Self Determination: A Conversation with Mabel Williams and Kathleen Cleaver - Part 2 Self Defense, Self Respect & Self Determination: A Conversation with Mabel Williams and Kathleen Cleaver - Part 2
Date: 3/14/2004Call Number: CD 172Format: CDProducers: NRPCollection: Mabel and Robert F. Williams
Self Defense, Self Respect & Self Determination: A Conversation with Mabel Williams and Kathleen Cleaver, introduced by Angela Davis. Addressing the subjugated history of the Black Liberation Movement.
Self Respect, Self Defense & Self Determination; a Moderated conversation with Mabel Williams and Kathleen Cleaver Self Respect, Self Defense & Self Determination; a Moderated conversation with Mabel Williams and Kathleen Cleaver
Date: 3/14/2004Call Number: V 134Format: VHSProducers: Collision Course VideoCollection: Mabel and Robert F. Williams
Self Respect, Self Defense & Self Determination 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 by 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. The event was sponsored by The Freedom Archives in partnership with: East Side Arts Alliance Community Center in the San Antonio district of Oakland, California Malcolm X Grassroots Movement - Oakland
A Conversation with Mabel Williams at Chabot College A Conversation with Mabel Williams at Chabot College
Date: 3/17/2004Call Number: V 148Format: VHSProducers: Chabot CollegeCollection: Mabel and Robert F. Williams
Mabel Williams speaks with a college audience about the origins of the Black liberation movement. Includes questions and answers.
Mabel Williams interviewed by Walter Turner Mabel Williams interviewed by Walter Turner
Date: 3/4/2004Call Number: CD 173Format: CDProducers: Walter TurnerCollection: Mabel and Robert F. Williams
Interview with Mabel Williams by Walter Turmer for Africa Today and Hard Knock Radio.
Huey!/Listen Whitey! [CD] Huey!/Listen Whitey! [CD]
Date: 1/1/1972Call Number: CD 198Format: CDProducers: Folkways RecordsCollection: Black Panther Party general
Huey!/Listen Whitey! SEALE, Bobby & CLEAVER, Eldridge et al Folkways FD 5402 The complete soundtracks to two short (around a half hour each) documentary films. Huey! features the Black Panther Platform protesting the incarceration of Huey Newton, including Seal, Cleaver and Rap Brown. Listen Whitey! documents the black communities reaction to the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. As usual, the liner notes include complete transcripts.
Listen, Brother! Listen, Brother!
Author: Robert F. WilliamsPublisher: World View PublishersYear: 1968Format: MonographCollection: Mabel and Robert F. Williams
"Listen Brother" is a message from Rob Williams, a brother well qualified to speak. After his hitch in the U.S. Marines, he organized the first armed self-defense guard of modern times — in Monroe, N.C. He fought in and out of the courts for the right of Afro-Americans to be free. Hounded from his own country and barred from European countries because of U.S. Government pressure, he now resides in People's China. He has announced his determination to return to the U.S. for a showdown with his enemies
The Black Scholar Interviews: Robert F. Williams The Black Scholar Interviews: Robert F. Williams
Publisher: The Black ScholarDate: 5/1970Volume Number: Vol. 1-7 MayFormat: ArticleCollection: Mabel and Robert F. Williams
Interview recorded on April 23, 1970.
Dear Fidel... Dear Fidel...
Publisher: Now! News of the Nation & The WorldDate: 6/1967Call Number: Volume Number: SummerFormat: ArticleCollection: Mabel and Robert F. Williams
Robert Williams, Black American leader now in exile in China, writes Castro on Cuban functionaries and U.S. Communists who worked against the Black Struggle in America.