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Basic Searching
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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 We are also in the process of scanning and uploading thousands of historical documents which enrich our media holdings.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.

Black Power/Black Nation

This collection contains materials related to Black Power and the concept of a Black Nation within the United States. This collection has materials from a wide variety of authors and organizations.

Documents

Black Liberation Part 2 Black Liberation Part 2
Publisher: Freedom ArchivesCollection: Black Power/Black Nation
Malcolm X on Black Nationalism as a response to US Colonialism; Assata Shakur reads her poem Carry It On tracing the history of Black resistance to white supremacy
The U.S. Imperialist State and the Black Nation The U.S. Imperialist State and the Black Nation
Author: Saladine MuhammadPublisher: The Institute of Black Political StudiesFormat: MonographCollection: Black Power/Black Nation
Presentation given by Saladin Muhammad at a forum on the Black National Question. The presentation/pamphlet deals with Black Scientific Socialism - which is the Black working class ideology of the national liberation struggle.
The Black Power Controversy The Black Power Controversy
Author: New South StudentPublisher: Southern Student Organizing Committee (SSOC)Year: 1966Volume Number: Vol. 111-7 DecFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Black Power/Black Nation
Includes: The Black Power Controversy; Lowndes County Story: Caging the Panther by Jane Dewart; From Power and Racism by Stokely Carmichael; Black Power and White Organizing by Anne Braden, Ghandian Tour.
Burn, baby, burn Burn, baby, burn
Publisher: Los Angeles TimesYear: 1966Format: GraphicCollection: Black Power/Black Nation
political cartoon
In Defense of the Right to Political Secession for the Afro-American Nation: Papers and Resolutions from the School on the Afro-American National Question In Defense of the Right to Political Secession for the Afro-American Nation: Papers and Resolutions from the School on the Afro-American National Question
Publisher: Revolutionary Political Organization; Marxist Leninist; Amilcar Cabral/Paul Robeson CollectiveYear: 1982Format: MonographCollection: Black Power/Black Nation
Papers and Resolutions from the School on the Afro-American National Question September, 1982
Black Politics: A Journal of Liberation Black Politics: A Journal of Liberation
Year: 1968Call Number: Volume Number: Vol. 1-1Format: PeriodicalCollection: Black Power/Black Nation
Articles: The Case of Huey P. Newton; Black Power and the Third World; Weapons for Self-Defense; The Great Conspirator's Conspiracy; John Brown and Taking Care of Business. Black Politics is an independent journal whose purpose is to provide a forum for vanguard theories and ideas that deal with currently critical issues.