Peoples Collection: Activism 1963-67 (sound)

Description:

Description: Scenes of protests against repression of Buddhists in South Vietnam, for civil rights, and from the Sheraton-Palace Hotel civil rights demonstrations, including protesters interacting with upper-class hotel patrons on Market Street in San Francisco, California.

Sequences as marked on leader: Cabble 8-27-63 Berk. rally (silent); Cal Protest outs 9-17-63 (silent); People 9-17-63 (four sequences, both silent and mag stripe sound); Palace Hotel [San Francisco] 3-6-7-64 (silent); Filbrick outs 10-5-64 / UC Demo (mag stripe); Hippie Be-In 12-17-67. See New York Times, March 8, 1964, online at: www.nytimes.com/1964/03/08/archives/hotel-pact-ends-coast-protests-racial-accord-is-reached-on-hiring.html and history.sfsu.edu/socialjusticeproject/sheraton-palace-hotel-protests.

The Buddhist Crisis: www.jfklibrary.org/learn/about-jfk/jfk-in-history/vietnam-diem-the-buddhist-crisis

Reuse Statement: For information on reusing Prelinger Archives footage and obtaining written usage agreements, please visit www.prelinger.com.

Subjects: 1960s, Activism, Civil rights, Counterculture, Universities and colleges, Youth, People of African origin or descent, White supremacy--Resistance to, Racism--Resistance to , Labor, Social classes

Tags: rallies; civil rights demonstrations; San Francisco War Memorial Building; Bancroft Way and Telegraph Avenue, Berkeley; repression of Buddhists; South Vietnam authoritarianism; college students, 1963; Sproul Plaza, Berkeley; CORE table; Congress of Racial Equality; support for civil rights workers in Southern U.S.; "Federal Protection from Racist Terror" sign; "We Shall Overcome" sign; "Federal Protection for Integration" sign; "Don't Buy Segregation / CORE" sign; "Jobs for All" sign; faces of civil rights rally participants; sit-in at Sheraton Palace Hotel, San Francisco; equal employment opportunity; hippies; be-in; protests; University of California Berkeley; UC Berkeley; integration; protest Birmingham violence; anti-communism; folksong; civil rights movement; labor protests; folk music; protest music; woman guitarist vocalist (unidentified); voter registration table; protest signs; Lost Landscapes; radicalism of the 1960s and 1970s; rotating record store sign; "Makeba Tickets" sign; "We Shall Overcome Now" sign; "Where Are the Negro Employees" sign

Film Sponsor:

Creator: David Webb Peoples

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Distributor:

Contributor: Prelinger Archives

Source Collection: David Webb Peoples Collection

Digitizing Sponsor: Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web (FFDW) and Internet Archive

Production Date: 1963-08-27; 1963-09-17; 1964-03-06; 1964-03-07; 1964-10-05; 1967-12-17

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Geographical Location: USA; California; Berkeley, California; San Francisco, California

Genre/Form: documentary, outtakes and trims, activist

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Film Format: 16mm film

Element: negative, magnetic striped film

Color: b&w

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Sound or Silent: sound

Film Soundtrack Type: magnetic stripe

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Frame Rate: 24 fps

Length (feet): 693

Complete Record: Description: Scenes of protests against repression of Buddhists in South Vietnam, for civil rights, and from the Sheraton-Palace Hotel civil rights demonstrations, including protesters interacting with upper-class hotel patrons on Market Street in San Francisco, California. Sequences as marked on leader: Cabble 8-27-63 Berk. rally (silent); Cal Protest outs 9-17-63 (silent); People 9-17-63 (four sequences, both silent and mag stripe sound); Palace Hotel [San Francisco] 3-6-7-64 (silent); Filbrick outs 10-5-64 / UC Demo (mag stripe); Hippie Be-In 12-17-67. See New York Times, March 8, 1964, online at: www.nytimes.com/1964/03/08/archives/hotel-pact-ends-coast-protests-racial-accord-is-reached-on-hiring.html and history.sfsu.edu/socialjusticeproject/sheraton-palace-hotel-protests. The Buddhist Crisis: www.jfklibrary.org/learn/about-jfk/jfk-in-history/vietnam-diem-the-buddhist-crisis Reuse Statement: For information on reusing Prelinger Archives footage and obtaining written usage agreements, please visit www.prelinger.com. Subjects: 1960s, Activism, Civil rights, Counterculture, Universities and colleges, Youth, People of African origin or descent, White supremacy--Resistance to, Racism--Resistance to , Labor, Social classes Tags: rallies; civil rights demonstrations; San Francisco War Memorial Building; Bancroft Way and Telegraph Avenue, Berkeley; repression of Buddhists; South Vietnam authoritarianism; college students, 1963; Sproul Plaza, Berkeley; CORE table; Congress of Racial Equality; support for civil rights workers in Southern U.S.; "Federal Protection from Racist Terror" sign; "We Shall Overcome" sign; "Federal Protection for Integration" sign; "Don't Buy Segregation / CORE" sign; "Jobs for All" sign; faces of civil rights rally participants; sit-in at Sheraton Palace Hotel, San Francisco; equal employment opportunity; hippies; be-in; protests; University of California Berkeley; UC Berkeley; integration; protest Birmingham violence; anti-communism; folksong; civil rights movement; labor protests; folk music; protest music; woman guitarist vocalist (unidentified); voter registration table; protest signs; Lost Landscapes; radicalism of the 1960s and 1970s; rotating record store sign; "Makeba Tickets" sign; "We Shall Overcome Now" sign; "Where Are the Negro Employees" sign Film Sponsor: Creator: David Webb Peoples Credits: Distributor: Contributor: Prelinger Archives Source Collection: David Webb Peoples Collection Digitizing Sponsor: Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web (FFDW) and Internet Archive Production Date: 1963-08-27; 1963-09-17; 1964-03-06; 1964-03-07; 1964-10-05; 1967-12-17 Release Date: Geographical Location: USA; California; Berkeley, California; San Francisco, California Genre/Form: documentary, outtakes and trims, activist Language: Rights: Film Format: 16mm film Element: negative, magnetic striped film Color: b&w Color Process: Sound or Silent: sound Film Soundtrack Type: magnetic stripe Edge Code: Frame Rate: 24 fps Length (feet): 693

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e e e e e e e they might have been searching for any number of people and they were screaming through the streets beating up every negro they saw in the street sticking him with those those Fierce cattle prods which give you a tremendous electrical shock not merely sticking them but twisting the cattle prods into their flesh and telling them run [ __ ] run the federal government was inactive in that situation too instead of taking action against the perpetrators of the crime injunctions Federal injunctions were gotten against those people who were demonstr rating in plaman this cannot be tolerated of the blame for what has happened too I heard him just a few days ago on television in which he announced that there had been so many bombings 18 and 19 bombings in Birmingham the FBI had been all over the place investigating and they had not found a single corporate and then he grinned this seemed to me to be a clear invitation to others to try bombing hardly 24 hours had passed before the bomb was hurled into the church while these children were studying the power of forgiveness and they were blown to bits I think too that the failure of the grand jury in Alabama to indict the accused murderer of William L Moore the postman from Baltimore and a core member who was on his historic walk through the South the failure of that grand jury to indict the men on whom they had a mass of evidence was a further invitation for more violence and killing in the South because there they saw as Governor Wallace had indicated that the likelihood of their being caught was slim and they saw as a result of the inactivity of the grand jury even if they were caught the chances of there being being indicted was very slim indeed now if the federal government does not take firm action in Birmingham and by firm action I mean sending in federal troops this will be a clear invitation for the racists the segregationists all over the South to do their worst the age of violence is not over there what has happened in Birmingham is not ended only last night as you know a negro youth was shot in the arm we expect more of this unless Federal forces are sent into Birmingham if the Army is not sent in or cannot be sent in then US Marshals must be sent into Birmingham it is not enough for us to expect state troopers of the state of Alabama to provide protection for the Negroes there because all of us know how the state troopers feel we know what their sentiments are we have seen them mounted on horses using cattle prods to break up demonstrations we saw them the last day of the Birmingham episode three months ago when they themselves the state troopers were beating up Negroes on the streets we saw them knock down the wife of Wyatt T Walker executive secretary of the Southern Christian leadership conference these were the state troopers these were the same men upon which the federal government is now relying to provide protection for the Negroes of Birmingham it cannot be done this way no my friends the March on Washington was not the end we are going to stay in the streets as long as is necessary until we have found full and equal freedom for all of our citizens regardless of race or regardless of color the March on Washington was really just a new beginning there'll be other marches all over the country north as well as South I learned that today they are planning now for a march on Montgomery in Alabama marches are being planned in New York City in San Francisco in Los Angeles and elsewhere I myself will be going down to Birmingham tomorrow morning at the invitation of Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth to be present at the funeral of these kids who were killed now you can help Birmingham I think it is your duty to help Birmingham by raising funds by voicing your protest you can do more than that the violence of Birmingham is blood brother to racial discrimination as it exists in San Francisco and Berkeley and all over the country when a negro moves into an all-h suburb in the north they rarely throw bombs what they do is merely pack their luggage and silently steal away I suggest to you my friends that these persons the good people who would not think of throwing a bomb who are horrified by the death of the kids in Birmingham these good people with their ordinary prejudices who move out of a community when a negro moves in who will fail to hire a negro in their business these persons are greater and stronger and stauner Defenders of the system of segregation than the canine core of Alabama that hurls bombs that is what they say then it is for your nation it is for yourselves and your future it is for your children and it is for the worldwide Battle For Freedom that all of us must become intimately involved in the struggle for Freedom now it is not enough for you to say that you're opposed to Jim Crow to study in your sociology classes about the horor of racial Prejudice it is not enough for you to issue statements you yourselves with your bodies and your dollars need to be on the picket line need to be in the marches need to be in the syens from the Atlantic to the Pacific pafic from Canada to the Gulf of [Applause] Mexico e e e e e e e e e e e e [Music] seemed the wide world would soon be free but communism is on the rise and Satan has a new disgu be careful of the lies swallow them and freedom dies the USA must realize that she's the biggest priz why be surprised when they Retreat their major weapon is dece when will we learn alas a la it's three steps forward two steps back be careful of the lies swallow them and free dies the USA must realize that she's the biggest priz to find them is an awesome task they always wear a different mask but knowledge rips The Mask away and free forever more will stay will expose the lies and Truth throughout the world will rise with evil will not compromise the truth shall keep us free the truth shall keep us free [Music] [Music] right [Music]