1971 Film: The Black Panther Party and the Murder of Fred Hampton This 90-minute black-and-white film has remarkable footage capturing the revolutionary spirit of the BPP. Fred Hampton (August 30, 1948 -- December 4, 1969) was an African-American activist and deputy chairman of the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party (BPP). He was killed as he lay in bed in his apartment by a tactical unit of the Cook County, Illinois State's Attorney's Office (SAO), in conjunction with the Chicago Police Department (CPD) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Party. His family won a civil suit against the City of Chicago, but his killers remain free. Good for the discussion of insurgent Black youth and revolutionary politics in the 1960s.
SNCC and the Black Panther Party Archives.Huey Newton, Bobby Seale, Fred Hampton, Fannie Lou Hamer, Rap Brown, Stolely Carmichael Angela Davis and other Black leaders from the 1960s and 1970s. Some Videos, and dozens of mp3 files.
Martin Delaney: Downloadable Book.'The Condition, Elevation, Emigration, and Destiny of the Colored People of the United States (1852)' is one of the classics of Black Nationalism in the U.S. and of the Abolitionist Movement
Bob Moses' Remarkable History Lecture. The 2013 Martin Luther King Jr. a Memorial Convocation featured Bob Moses, Harvard-trained educator who was a leader in the 1960s Civil Rights Movement and later founded the nationwide U.S. Algebra project. Moses discusses the 'Three Ages' of the Constitution from the perspective of Radical Democracy and its Expansion, especially in education. Starts at 41 minute, about 45 minutes long.
Slavery by Another Name. Powerful 90 PBS film history of Jim Crow, based on the book by the same name by Douglas A. Blackmon. It challenges one of Americans’ most cherished assumptions: the belief that slavery in this country ended with the Emancipation Proclamation. The film tells how even as chattel slavery came to an end in the South in 1865, thousands of African Americans were pulled back into forced labor with shocking force and brutality until the period after World War2, when it began to be challenged more effectively.