Summary

BLACK PANTHER PARTY - PART TWO

Source Archive Films by Getty Images
Title: BLACK PANTHER PARTY - PART TWO
File Number: ACL-3006 Digibeta; Beta SP
Color: B W, Color
Type: Compilation
Year: 1970s
Description: 3006-1 02:00:00:00 -- 02:01:55:25 Interview with American political activist Angela Davis while she was in prison on Black Panther-related charges at Soledad, California. ECU Davis's face. She refers to Alabama church bombing (dynamite bomb that exploded at 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, September 15, 1963, which killed 4 Black girls), some of whom she knew history of Black resistance before Watts & Malcolm X Blacks arming themselves, and W.E.B. Du Bois. There's this myth that Black people did not resist until Watts or until Malcolm (X) or until the Black Panther Party. It's just not true... People are very upset when they hear Black people have weapons... 1971 or 1972 Color w Sound PDA (8027) 3006-2 02:01:55:26 -- 02:02:19:26 Interview with American political activist Angela Davis while she was in prison on Black Panther-related charges at Soledad, California. Davis paraphrases Dostoevsky while discussing prisons and nature of American society. ...you can generally determine what the nature of any given society is by taking a look at its prisons. I think that that is a very fitting way to understand what American society is all about today... 1971 or 1972 Color w Sound PDA (8027) 3006-3 02:02:19:27 -- 02:03:39:11 Interview with American political activist Angela Davis while she was in prison on Black Panther-related charges at Soledad, California. Davis responds to interviewer's question about America and fascism. I think we are closer to fascism than ever before... 1971 or 1972 Color w Sound PDA (8027) 3006-4 02:03:39:12 -- 02:04:26:01 Interview with American political activist Angela Davis while she was in prison on Black Panther-related charges at Soledad, California. Davis defines revolutionary struggle. Unidentified interviewer shown on camera. She smokes cigarette. 1971 or 1972 Color w Sound PDA (8027) 3006-5 02:04:26:02 -- 02:06:54:08 Interview with American political activist Angela Davis while she was in prison on Black Panther-related charges at Soledad, California. Davis discusses New York Times editorial and American justice system. She refers to imprisonment of Afeni Shakur in New York City (Panther 21 case) who was pregnant (with Tupac Shakur)& living w rats & roaches. Discusses her own solitary confinement: The reason why the Marin County officials would not permit me to talk to any other woman in that jail is because they wanted to break me... 1971 or 1972 Color w Sound PDA (8027) 3006-6 02:06:54:09 -- 02:07:48:16 Interview with American political activist Angela Davis while she was in prison on Black Panther-related charges at Soledad, California. Davis on giving her life to the struggle for Black liberation and socialism. 1971 or 1972 Color w Sound PDA (8027) 3006-7 02:07:48:17 -- END OF TAPE
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