Black Panther

This is the film the Black Panthers used to promote their cause. Shot in Oakland, San Francisco and Sacramento in 1969, this exemplar of Sixties activist filmmaking traces the development of the Black Panther organization. Minister of Defense Huey P. Newton describes the origins of the Panthers in an interview from jail, Minister of Information, Eldridge Cleaver explains the Panthers appeal to the black community, and Chairman Bobby Seale enumerates the Panther 10 Point Program as Panthers march and demonstrate.

San Francisco State: On Strike

Ethnic studies courses are ubiquitous today, but it wasn't always the case. In many ways, multicultural education can be traced back to San Francisco in 1968-69. There, students at San Francisco State University went on strike, shutting down the campus for six months, in one of the most high profile student actions of the '60s. University president S.I. Hayakawa called in the police who busted heads and arrested hundreds in an attempt to restore control of the campus. But the strike finally ended when the school acceded to the students demands and created the first ethnic studies department at an American university. This film, shot by the students and their allies, is a classic primary source document of the Sixties.

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Producer: San Francisco Newsreel
1969, 14 minutes/20 minutes

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