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Civil Rights Movement
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Black Power

Black Power

Discover the leaders and organizations that advocated for “black power” as frustration with nonviolent strategies grew in the face of continuing legal and social resistance to civil rights. New groups, such as the Black Panther Party, the Black Women’s United Front, and the Nation of Islam, developed new cultural, political, and economic programs and grew memberships that reflected this shift.

  • Radio program about the history of black radicalism in relation to black power, broadcast in the 1960s

    KPFA (Radio station : Berkeley, Calif.)

    Ted Vincent, writer and educator, presents the first in a series on Black radicals of the past. This first episode provides a summary of Black radicalism from 1919-1950, and a brief biography of Grove…

    View Full Item  in Pacifica Radio Archives
  • Excerpted interview with Malcolm X from the television program, “Negro and the American Promise,” 1963

    Morganthau, Henry, Barzyk, Fred, Clark, Kenneth Bancroft, 1914-2005, X, Malcolm, 1925-1965

    Excerpted interview with Malcolm X from the program "Negro and the American Promise."

    View Full Item  in WGBH
  • Black Panther Party Platform and Program, 1966

    View Full Item  in UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library
  • Audio recording of Stokely Carmichael addressing Black Panthers in Oakland, California about Huey P. Newton’s incarceration and black revolution

    KPFA (Radio station : Berkeley, Calif.)

    Stokely Carmichael addresses a meeting of the Black Panthers in Oakland, California, regarding Huey P. Newton's incarceration, United States imperialism, Black revolution, and strategies for revolutio…

    View Full Item  in Pacifica Radio Archives
  • Recording of speeches given at a rally on January 26, 1968 at University of California, Berkeley, calling for the release of the Oakland Seven and Huey Newton

    KPFA (Radio station : Berkeley, Calif.), Aptheker, Bettina, Scheer, Robert, Seale, Bobby, 1936, Avakian,Bob, Kelly, John

    This is a recording of speeches given at a rally on January 26, 1968 on Sproul Hall Steps at University of California, Berkeley calling for the release of the Oakland Seven and Huey Newton, the co-fou…

    View Full Item  in Pacifica Radio Archives
  • Photograph of Black Panther Party leader Kathleen Cleaver and other Black Panther Party members in a prosecutor’s office, 1968

    Peter Breinig, photographer

    View Full Item  in UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library
  • Pamphlet about “Black Woman’s Role in the Revolution” which includes discussions of hair, make-up, alcohol, smoking, pants, and dress, 1969

    Sisters of B.C.D

    Discussion of role of Black women in the Section heads include: Hair, Make-up, Alcohol, Smoking, Pants, and Dress.

    View Full Item  in Special Collections and University Archives, University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries
  • Pamphlet announcing the death of Fred Hampton with the headline “Fred Hampton, Murdered by the Pig,” 1970

    Weatherman

    RacismVietnam protests - anti government

    View Full Text  in University of Washington
  • Poster by Ralph Maradiaga featuring Eldridge Cleaver, Amiri Baraka, Malcolm X, and Bobby Seale, 1970

    Maradiaga, Ralph, Artist

    Portraits of the heads of four black men in brown, green and purple on an orange background. Clockwise from the top left, they are identified as Eldridge Cleaver, Amiri Baraka, Malcolm X, and Bobby Se…

    View Full Item  in UC Santa Barbara, Library, Department of Special Research Collections
  • Photograph of the 1970 Milwaukee March to Free Bobby Seale, who was imprisoned in relation to events at the 1968 Democratic National Convention and the murder of a Black Panther member in 1970

    Zalesky, Roy

    People march on Farwell Ave in 1970 with signs reading Free Bobby. Bobby Seale was the co-founder of Black Panthers. He was imprisoned in relation to riots at the 1968 Democratic National Convention a…

    View Full Item  in Milwaukee Public Library
  • Poster for the Committee to Defend the Black Panthers, 1970

    Faith Ringgold

    Drawing

    View Full Item  in The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
  • Transcript of a 1970 interview with members of the Brown Berets, a Chicano Movement organization that coordinated activities with black power groups

    Located in series "Subject Files" in the Herman Baca Papers, MSS 649. Reformatted digital Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This digital ima…

    View Full Item  in UC San Diego, Special Collections and Archives
  • Photograph of Angela Davis after a Black Panther shootout with police in Los Angeles

    View Full Item  in UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
  • Cover of a 1972 issue of The Black Voice featuring Nina Simone, who used her platform as a famous singer and musician to promote black power

    Nina Simone on the cover of the Black Voice, a UW publication.

    View Full Item  in University of Wisconsin Digital Collections
  • Photograph of Angela Davis with Rev. Ben Chavis and American Indian Movement leader Clyde Bellecourt announcing a new organization “against racist and political repression,” 1973

    Chicago: Angela Davis, (R) shown at a Chicago news conference 5/11 with Rev. Ben Chavis, (L) of Wilmington, NC, and American Indian Movement leader Clyde Bellecourt, announced the formation of an orga…

    View Full Item  in Chapman University, Frank Mt. Pleasant Library of Special Collections and Archives
  • Photograph of Assata Shakur, or Joanne Cheismard, a member of the Black Liberation Army who was convicted of murdering state trooper in 1973 despite conflicting evidence

    Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.

    View Full Item  in Oklahoma Historical Society
  • 1993 issue of Commemorator, the Black Panther Party newspaper

    Black Panther Party. Commemoration Committee

    Commemorator vol. 3, no. 6

    View Full Item  in Oakland Public Library, African American Museum and Library at Oakland
  • Oral history transcript with E. Ethelbert Miller about his experiences as a student during the Black Arts Movement

    Rai, Mona

    Oral history interview with E. Ethelbert Miller by St. Andrew's Episcopal School student Mona Rai. In this interview Miller presents the turbulent times and themes of the Black Arts Movement from the…

    View Full Item  in St. Andrew's Episcopal School
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