Library Guides: Black History at Cal: Media

Documentary (57 mins, 2024)

Discover the little-known story of Walter Gordon, UC Berkeley All-American football player and the first Black graduate of Cal's Boalt Law School, who went on to a distinguished career in law enforcement, civil rights, and prison reform.

"We were being erased" The woman who saved California's Black history. Episode 60. East Bay Yesterday. Audio Podcast
This episode explores Beasley’s life as a historian and journalist through a conversation with the authors of “Trailblazer: Delilah Beasley’s California” (Published by Clockshop), a new work by Dana Johnson and Ana Cecilia Alvarez. We discuss Beasley’s motivation, her impact, and why her work still remains so valuable.

Image: Delilah Beasley, circa 1919. Courtesy of Miriam Mathews Photograph Collection, OpenUCLA Collections

fannie lou hamer speaking into microphone

Fannie Lou Hamer speaks at the Vietnam Moratorium rally at U.C. Berkeley in 1965. Audio excerpts from Democracy Now's broadcast "Fannie Lou Hamer: Memorial Broadcast to celebrate the 85th Anniversary of the Civil Rights Leaders' Birth."

Fannie Lou Hamer, University of California, Berkeley 1965 (1/2) (6:59 mins.)

Fannie Lou Hamer, University of California, Berkeley 1965 (2/2) (9:29 mins.)

Image: Fannie Lou Hamer speaking outside of Capitol in Washington, D.C., 9/17/65. (AP Photo/William J. Smith)

Dr. Martin Luther King at UC Berkeley Sproul Plaza, 1967

Eldridge Cleaver interviewed outside UC Berkeley Dwinelle Hall, 1968

America's chief moral dilemma: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. "Speech about the immoral consequence of the war in Vietnam; recorded at Sproul Hall U.C. Berkeley." Media Resources Center (NRLF) ; SOUND/D 203
Black Sproul. African American civil-rights and Black Power leaders who spoke at UC Berkeley’s upper and lower Sproul and Dwinelle plazas from 1963-68. African American Studies & African Diaspora Studies and MRC Public Video
Malcolm X interviewed by Herman Blake (graduate student) at Berkeley, October 11, 1963. Blake received his M.A. degree and his Ph.D. in sociology from University of California, Berkeley. MRC Public Video
James Baldwin at Wheeler Hall, January 15, 1979. MRC Public Video
James Baldwin at University of California, Berkeley, Questions and Answers, Parts 1 & 2, 1974. MRC Public Video
Fannie Lou Hamer’s America. Davenport, Joy Elaine, and Monica Land. New York, NY: Women Make Movies, 2021. Through public speeches, personal interviews, and powerful songs of the fearless Mississippi sharecropper-turned-human-rights-activist, Fannie Lou Hamer’s America explores and celebrates the lesser-known life of one of the Civil Rights Movement's greatest leaders.
Black Panther. Newton, Huey P.; Cleaver, Eldridge, 1935-1998.; Seale, Bobby, 1936-; California Newsreel (Firm) 2004. Interviews with founding members of the Black Panther Party and documentary footage of the organization's meetings and marches. Minister of Defense Huey P. Newton describes the origins of the Black Panthers in an interview from jail; Minister of Information, Eldridge Cleaver explains their appeal to the Black community and Chairman Bobby Seale lays out their 10-point program.
Twenty years after the third world strike, panel discussion. Muñoz, Carlos, 1939-; Garcia, Anthony Maes.; Romano-V., Octavio Ignacio, 1923-; Duster, Troy.; University of California, Berkeley. Department of Ethnic Studies. 1989

UCB Department of African American Studies digital archives on California Revealed

The majority of the collection consists of lectures, colloquia, and performances at the Berkeley campus and other Bay Area locations from the 1970s and 1980s. Among the speakers featured are James Baldwin, Angela Davis, and St. Clair Drake.