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  [Power to the People raw: interviews with Deborah Johnson and Bobby Rush]

  Black, Chicago, Communities

  This video features camera original interviews with Deborah Johnson, December 4th Committee, and member, Black Panther Party in 1969, as well as then-Alderman Bobby Rush, who was also the former Deputy Minister of Defense of the Black Panther Party. The footage was shot for “Power to the People” [1989 | 26 minutes], which was made for the December 4th Committee at Kartemquin Films. Director, Peter Kuttner.“Power to the People” speaks to Black, Latino and White activists who worked with and […]

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  [Howard Zinn raw #28: Cleveland Sellers speaks about his involvement with Zinn and the SNCC]

  Black, Communities, Howard Zinn

  Cleveland Sellers discusses Howard Zinn and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.

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  Right On: A Friend Remembers Fred Hampton

  Black, Chicago, Communities, Outside Agitators, Politics

  “Right On: A Friend Remembers Fred Hampton” [1989 |18 minutes] Veteran community activist Jorja English Palmer [1930-2005] talks of the events of 1948-1969 which led Fred Hampton to the leadership of the Illinois Black Panther Party and to his murder by Chicago police as part of the FBI’s secret counter intelligence program – COINTELPRO.

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  Power to the People

  Black, Chicago, Outside Agitators

  “Power to the People” [1989 | 26 minutes] This film was made for the December 4th Committee at Kartemquin Films. Director, Peter Kuttner. “Power to the People” speaks to Black, Latino and White activists who worked with and were influenced by Fred Hampton and the Illinois Black Panther Party. They recall the late 1960s and how the Panther experience still affects their current community work. In doing so, they tell the story of the IL Party and the murder and […]

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  [Black Panther headquarters, 10 years after the murder of Fred Hampton]

  Black, Chicago, Chicago Politics, CLIR, Communities, Politics, Roots of Video

  B-roll of house exterior of the former headquarters of the Black Panther Party at 2337 W Monroe in Chicago, which was the site of the murder of Chairman Fred Hampton by the Chicago Police.