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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.

Kathleen Cleaver COINTELPRO 101 Extra Footage

Call Number: COI 10 130Format: Video ClipCollection: Cointelpro

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.

An Undying Love Flyer

Date: 5/31/1969Volume Number: 31-MayFormat: FlyerCollection: Eldridge Cleaver

Flyer: "release Eldridge Cleaver rally," at Parole Office in San Francisco, with Stokely Carmichael, Bobby Seale, and Kathleen Cleaver.

Women, Power, and Revolution

Author: Kathleen CleaverPublisher: Howard University SymposiumFormat: TranscriptCollection: Black Panther Party general

How could a young Black women raised during the 1950s find someplace to take collective action against the repressive social condition she faced, and bring about revolutionary change?

The Black Panther Black Community News Service [March 6, 1971]

Publisher: The Black Panther PartyDate: 3/6/1971Volume Number: Vol. 6-6Format: PeriodicalCollection: Black Panther Party Community News Service

Cover Story: Free Kathleen Cleaver and All Political Prisoners

The Black Panther Black Community News Service [Sep 14, 1968]

Publisher: The Black Panther PartyDate: 9/14/1968Volume Number: Vol. 2-6Format: PeriodicalCollection: Black Panther Party Community News Service

Contents include: Panthers Will Free Huey, Huey's Statement on Racist Decision, Garry Explains TV Talk Show, Free Huey Delegation goes to U.N., Kathleen Cleaver Editorial, Summary of Trial, Thrid-World Appeals for Huey's Freedom, more.

Human Rights in the US: The Unfinished Story of Political Prisoners/Victims

Authors: Nkechi Taifa, Kathleen Cleaver, Michael Tarif Warren, Bruce Ellison, Geronimo ji Jaga, Laura WhitehornPublisher: Human Rights Research Fund, Release 2001Year: 2001Format: MonographCollection: Cointelpro

This pamphlet was adapted from the transcript of the September 14, 2000 forum that Rep. Cynthia McKinney (D-Ga) hosted during the Congressional Black Caucus's legislative weekend in Washington DC. It could not have been published without the expert editorial work of Laura Whitehorn and Susie Day.

Los Derechos Humanos en los Estados Unidos: El Relato Inconcluso Sobre Los Presos Politicos y de las Victimas de Cointelpro

In Spanish. This pamphlet was adapted from the transcript of the September 14, 2000 forum that Rep. Cynthia McKinney (D-Ga) hosted during the Congressional Black Caucus's legislative weekend in Washington DC. It could not have been published without the expert editorial work of Laura Whitehorn and Susie Day.