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Voices of a People's History of the United States (ebook) [cpdl]

Category: eBooks, Magazines, Audio Books
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Copy Paste title: Voices of a People's History Digital |> of the United States Librarian | `> author: Howard Zinn / Anthony Arnove _______| `____________ isbn: 1583226281 || | | | word count: 286044 ||infor-| |control + a|| pages: 665 ||mation| | || format: htm ||wants | |control + c|| version: 1 ||to be > | || CPDL ||free `> |control + v|| release no.: 00013 ||__________`|___________|| |___________><____________| _______________________________________________________ Here in their own words are Frederick Douglass, George Jackson, Chief Joseph, Martin Luther King Jr., Plough Jogger, Sacco and Vanzetti, Patti Smith, Bruce Springsteen, Mark Twain, and Malcolm X, to name just a few of the hundreds appearing in Voices of a People's History of the United States, edited by Howard Zinn and Anthony Arnove. Paralleling the 24 chapters of Zinn's A People's History of the United States, Voices of a People's History is the long-awaited companion volume to the national bestseller. For Voices, Zinn and Arnove have selected testimonies to living history-speeches, letters, poems, songs-left by the people who make history happen, but who usually are underrepresented or misrepresented in history books: women, Native Americans, workers, blacks and Latinos. Zinn has written short introductions to the texts, which themselves range in length from letters or poems of less than a page to entire speeches and essays that run several pages and longer. Voices of a People's History is a symphony of our nation's original voices, rich in ideas and actions, an embodiment of the power of civil disobedience and dissent, wherein lies our nation's true spirit of defiance and resilience. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voices_of_a_People%27s_History_of_the_United_States http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/56104152
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Roots of Resistance - A Story Of The Underground Railroad

Category: Documentary
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Title: Roots of Resistance - A Story of the Underground RailroadSeries: "The American Experience"Year: 1989Length: 55 minutesGenre: Social History Producer: Orlando BagwellDirector: Orlando BagwellWriter: Theodore ThomasNarrator: Ruby DeeVideo: DivX 5.0, 708x468, 29.97fps, 1500kbpsAudio: AC3 Passthrough, 14khz, 225kb/sRIP: videoclub2000--IMDB-- http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0821058/--NY Times Review-- http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/254584/American-Experience-Roots-of-Resistance-A-Story-of-the-Underground-Railroad/overviewMade for television for WGBH in Boston.Before the Civil War broke out, and during it as well, the "Underground Railroad" operated as an effective, secret network for African-Americans to escape the bonds of slavery. Produced and directed by Orlando Bagwell, this installment of the award-winning PBS series The American Experience chronicles the workings of the Underground Railroad, from its creation and support by ex-slaves and white abolitionists, to helping modern viewers get a sense of what it was actually like to risk life to make a dash for freedom in the darkness. The "passengers" on this railroad placed their faith in guides such as the remarkable Harriet Tubman (a former slave) and with the people whose homes formed the stations along the route. Highlights include daguerreotypes, commentary by historians and interviews with descendants of slaves and slave owners of a plantation in North Carolina. Bagwell has produced numerous documentaries for PBS, including American Experience: Malcolm X -- Make It Plain. ~ Steve Blackburn, All Movie Guide
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King: Man of Peace in a Time of War

Category: Documentary
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ISO contains full DVD, full DVD cover and DVDID.xml King: Man of Peace in a Time of War is a fascinating and revealing look at the life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. filtered through the prism of three major conflicts: the struggle between black and white America, divisiveness within the civil rights movement itself, and an undeclared war in Vietnam. This timely tribute features archival footage of Dr. King, exclusive interviews with the Rev. Jesse Jackson, Colin Powell, and Quincy Jones amongst others including Hugh Hefner, Howard K. Smith and Laurence Fishburne, plus controversial commentary from Malcolm X. Most remarkable of all is the appearance of Dr. King himself on a 1967 Mike Douglas Show speaking eloquently about civil rights and his opposition to the Vietnam War. It is a revelation to see him in this relaxed setting - even though he is peppered with pointed questions from the host. King: Man of Peace in a Time of War is a remarkably relevant salute to a man who remains an inspiration and a force for social change nearly forty years after his untimely death at age 39. Contains footage not seen on TV.
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The Speeches of Malcolm X [VHS rip]

Category: Talks, Debates, Interviews
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Malcolm X (born Malcolm Little; May 19, 1925 – February 21, 1965), also known as El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, was an African American Muslim minister, public speaker, and human rights activist. To his admirers, he was a courageous advocate for the rights of African Americans, a man who indicted white America in the harshest terms for its crimes against black Americans. His detractors accused him of preaching race hatred and violence. He has been described as one of the most influential African Americans of the 20th century. While in prison, Malcolm X became a member of the Nation of Islam. After his parole in 1952, he became one of the Nation's leaders and chief spokesmen. For nearly a dozen years, he was the public face of the Nation of Islam. Tension between Malcolm X and Elijah Muhammad, head of the Nation of Islam, led to his departure from the organization in March 1964. After leaving the Nation of Islam, Malcolm X made the pilgrimage, the Hajj, to Mecca and became a Sunni Muslim. He traveled extensively throughout Africa and the Middle East. He founded Muslim Mosque, Inc., a religious organization, and the secular, black nationalist Organization of Afro-American Unity. Less than a year after he left the Nation of Islam, Malcolm X was assassinated while giving a speech in New York.
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The Wisdom of Malcolm X - Speeches

Category: eBooks, Magazines, Audio Books
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Codec: MP3 Disk: 1 1. Police, Brutality And Mob Violence 2. American Courts 3. No Taxation Without Representation 4. Resurrection 5. White Man's Law 6. FBI And Black Muslims 7. White News Media 8. Black Muslim Beliefs On War 9. The Black Muslim Woman And The Black Man 10. Black Muslim Beliefs 11. Crime In Harlem 12. Crime By Blacks 13. Government And Integration 14. God 15. Redlining - Jews And Blacks Disk: 2 1. Jobs And The Black People 2. Nation Within Nation 3. Blacks In Africa 4. Civil Rights Legislation 5. The Root Of Civilization 6. The Root Of Savagery 7. Black United Front 8. White Liberals 9. Race War In America 10. American Civil War 11. Housing Conditions In Black Communities 12. Unwed Mother 13. Black Women And White Men 14. Black Women In Prisons
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Democracy Now! Thursday, May 29, 2008

Category: News & Current Affairs
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Headlines Global Cluster Bomb Ban Approved Over US Objection White House: McClellan “Disgruntled” Ex-Employee DNC Attorneys Rule Against Clinton on Michigan, Florida Delegates South African Immigrants Displaced in Xenophobic Violence Israeli PM Pressured on Bribery Scandal Report: US Troops Trying to Convert Iraqis to Christianity New York to Recognize Same-Sex Marriage Israel Bars One of its Most Prominent Critics, Norman Finkelstein, for Ten Years Norman Finkelstein was arrested and deported from Israel last week and told he’s barred for ten years. Finkelstein is known as one of the most prominent academic critics of Israel’s occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. We speak to Finkelstein and the human rights worker he was on his way to visit, Musa Abu Hashhash. [includes rush transcript] Gore Vidal on the Kennedys and His 1960s Battle with the New York Times With a career spanning more than six decades, Gore Vidal is one of America’s most respected writers and thinkers. He’s authored more than twenty novels and five plays. His latest book is Point to Point Navigation: A Memoir. [includes rush transcript] 1968, Forty Years Later: Tariq Ali Looks Back on a Pivotal Year in the Global Struggle for Social Justice We continue our series “1968, Forty Years Later” with the political activist, novelist and historian, Tariq Ali. Back in the 1960s, with the Vietnam War at its height, Tariq Ali earned a national reputation through debates with figures like Henry Kissinger and then-British Foreign Secretary Michael Stewart. He protested against the Vietnam War, led the now-infamous march on the American embassy in London in 1968, and edited the revolutionary paper Black Dwarf, where he became friends with numerous influential figures, such as Stokely Carmichael, Malcolm X, John Lennon and Yoko Ono. Forty years later, Tariq Ali continues his lifelong struggle against US foreign policy across the globe. [includes rush transcript]
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Democracy Now! Thursday, March 13, 2008

Category: News & Current Affairs
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Today's Headlines Iraqi Girl Slain By U.S. Troops Study: Most Americans Undercount U.S. Toll in Iraq U.S. Receives Severed Fingers of Captured Contractors Admin Blocks Release of Exhaustive Report on Key Pre-War Claim 40 Militants, 8 Civilians Killed in Afghanistan Israel-Hamas Truce Collapses With Israeli Attack in West Bank Israel Boycotts Al Jazeera Protesters Call Rice “War Criminal” at House Hearing Britain Orders 1,400 Asylum Seekers to Return to Iraq UK Urged to Grant Asylym Gay Iranian Teen Clinton, Obama Talk Michigan, Florida Re-Vote Spitzer Resigns; Paterson to Become New York’s First Black Governor Pentagon Reviewing Newly-Disclosed Interrogation Tapes Bush: Chavez Represents “Vision of Terrorists and Demagogues” New EPA Smog Standards Lower Than Scientists Recommend Al-Arian Hospitalized on 9th Day of Hunger Strike Former Sen. Howard Metzenbaum Dies at 90 David Paterson to Become First African American Gov in NY History, First Blind Gov in US History On Monday, New York Lieutenant Governor David Paterson will be sworn in to replace Eliot Spitzer as the state’s chief executive. Paterson will become New York’s first African American governor and the first blind governor in the nation’s history. We speak with Harlem journalist Herb Boyd, who has covered Paterson for years; New York State Senator Liz Krueger, who worked closely with David Paterson during his time in the New York Senate; and Carl Augusto, the president of the American Foundation for the Blind. [includes rush transcript–partial] David Paterson Invokes Paul Robeson, Harriet Tubman, Malcolm X in Remembrance of Jazz Legend Max Roach Last August, New York’s incoming governor David Paterson spoke at Riverside Church in Manhattan during at the funeral of the jazz legend Max Roach. In his address, Paterson invoked the memory of blacklisted actor and singer Paul Robeson, abolitionist Harriet Tubman and black nationalist leader Malcolm X. Defeat: British Journalist Jonathan Steele on Why America and Britain Lost Iraq As the fifth anniversary of the US invasion of Iraq approaches, we speak with Jonathan Steele, one of the journalists who was covered the Iraq war since 2003. Steele is the senior foreign correspondent and in-house columnist on international affairs for the London Guardian. His latest book is “Defeat: Why America and Britain Lost Iraq.”
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PBS American Experience - Eyes on the Prize: Parts 1-14of14 (TVRip.SoS)

Category: Documentary
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Part of PBS' American Experience, Parts 1-6 were released in 2006 and the other parts in this series were aired in 2-episode installments in February 2008. This torrent includes all 14 parts and the filenames are unchanged from before to make it easier to resume any existing downloads. Note: There are video and audio glitches for the last 15 minutes in Part 7 and video corruptions in the final minute of Part 8. Produced by Blackside, "Eyes on the Prize" tells the definitive story of the civil rights era from the point of view of the ordinary men and women whose extraordinary actions launched a movement that changed the fabric of American life, and embodied a struggle whose reverberations continue to be felt today. Winner of numerous Emmy Awards, a George Foster Peabody Award, an International Documentary Award, and a Television Critics Association Award, Eyes on the Prize is the most critically acclaimed documentary on civil rights in America. "Eyes on the Prize" recounts the fight to end decades of discrimination and segregation. It is the story of the people -- young and old, male and female, northern and southern -- who, compelled by a meeting of conscience and circumstance, worked to eradicate a world where whites and blacks could not go to the same school, ride the same bus, vote in the same election, or participate equally in society. It was a world in which peaceful demonstrators were met with resistance and brutality -- in short, a reality that is now nearly incomprehensible to many young Americans. Through contemporary interviews and historical footage, "Eyes on the Prize" traces the civil rights movement from the Montgomery bus boycott to the Voting Rights Act; from early acts of individual courage through the flowering of a mass movement and its eventual split into factions. Julian Bond, political leader and civil rights activist, narrates. Part 1: Awakenings (1954-1956) Individual acts of courage inspire black Southerners to fight for their rights: Mose Wright testifies against the white men who murdered young Emmett Till, and Rosa Parks refuses to give up her bus seat to a white man in Montgomery, Alabama. Part 2: Fighting Back (1957-1962) States' rights loyalists and federal authorities collide in the 1957 battle to integrate Little Rock's Central High School, and again in James Meredith's 1962 challenge to segregation at the University of Mississippi. Both times, a Southern governor squares off with a U.S. president, violence erupts -- and integration is carried out. -- Parts 1-2: runtime = 1:50:58, xvid.640x480. 970kbps.mp3.112.vbr, filesize = 850MB -- Part 3: Ain't Scared of Your Jails (1960-1961) Black college students take a leadership role in the civil rights movement as lunch counter sit-ins spread across the South. "Freedom Riders" also try to desegregate interstate buses, but they are brutally attacked as they travel. Part 4: No Easy Walk (1961-1963) The civil rights movement discovers the power of mass demonstrations as the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. emerges as its most visible leader. Some demonstrations succeed; others fail. But the triumphant March on Washington, D.C., under King's leadership, shows a mounting national support for civil rights. President John F. Kennedy proposes the Civil Rights Act. -- Parts 3-4: runtime = 1:51:05, xvid.640x480. 967kbps.mp3.112.vbr, filesize = 850MB -- Part 5: Mississippi: Is This America? (1963-1964) Mississippi's grass-roots civil rights movement becomes an American concern when college students travel south to help register black voters and three activists are murdered. The Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party challenges the regular Mississippi delegation at the Democratic Convention in Atlantic City. Part 6: Bridge to Freedom (1965) A decade of lessons is applied in the climactic and bloody march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama. A major victory is won when the federal Voting Rights Bill passes, but civil rights leaders know they have new challenges ahead. -- Parts 5-6: runtime = 1:51:36, xvid.640x480. 954kbps.mp3.112.vbr, filesize = 850MB -- Part 7: The Time Has Come (1964-66) After a decade-long cry for justice, a new sound is heard in the civil rights movement: the insistent call for power. Malcolm X takes an eloquent nationalism to urban streets as a younger generation of black leaders listens. In the South, Stokely Carmichael and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) move from "Freedom Now!" to "Black Power!" as the fabric of the traditional movement changes. -- Part 7: runtime = 0:55:28, xvid.640x480.1119kbps.mp3.160.vbr, filesize = 500MB -- Part 8: Two Societies (1965-68) Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) come north to help Chicago's civil rights leaders in their nonviolent struggle against segregated housing. Their efforts pit them against Chicago's powerful mayor, Richard Daley. When a series of marches through all-white neighborhoods draws violence, King and Daley negotiate with mixed results. In Detroit, a police raid in a black neighborhood sparks an urban uprising that lasts five days, leaving 43 people dead. The Kerner Commission finds that America is becoming "two societies, one black, one white, separate and unequal." President Lyndon Johnson, who appointed the commission, ignores the report. -- Part 8: runtime = 0:55:42, xvid.640x480.1124kbps.mp3.160.vbr, filesize = 500MB -- Part 9: Power! (1966-68) The call for Black Power takes various forms across communities in black America. In Cleveland, Carl Stokes wins election as the first black mayor of a major American city. The Black Panther Party, armed with law books, breakfast programs, and guns, is born in Oakland. Substandard teaching practices prompt parents to gain educational control of a Brooklyn school district but then lead them to a showdown with New York City's teachers' union. -- Part 9: runtime = 0:56:12, xvid.640x480.1081kbps.mp3.160.vbr, filesize = 500MB -- Part 10: The Promised Land (1967-68) Martin Luther King stakes out new ground for himself and the rapidly fragmenting civil rights movement. One year before his death, he publicly opposes the war in Vietnam. His Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) embarks on an ambitious Poor People's Campaign. In the midst of political organizing, King detours to support striking sanitation workers in Memphis, where he is assassinated. King's death and the failure of his final campaign mark the end of a major stream of the movement. -- Part 10: runtime = 0:56:05, xvid.640x480.1108kbps.mp3.160.vbr, filesize = 500MB -- Part 11: Ain't Gonna Shuffle No More (1964-72) A call to pride and a renewed push for unity galvanize black America. World heavyweight champion Cassius Clay challenges America to accept him as Muhammad Ali, a minister of Islam who refuses to fight in Vietnam. Students at Howard University in Washington, D.C., fight to bring the growing black consciousness movement and their African heritage inside the walls of this prominent black institution. Black elected officials and community activists organize the National Black Political Convention in Gary, Indiana, in an attempt to create a unified black response to growing repression against the movement. -- Part 11: runtime = 0:56:06, xvid.640x480.1108kbps.mp3.160.vbr, filesize = 500MB -- Part 12: A Nation of Law? (1968-71) Black activism is increasingly met with a sometimes violent and unethical response from local and federal law enforcement agencies. In Chicago, two Black Panther Party leaders are killed in a pre-dawn raid by police acting on information supplied by an FBI informant. In the wake of President Nixon's call to "law and order," stepped-up arrests push the already poor conditions at New York's Attica State Prison to the limit. A five-day inmate takeover calling the public's attention to the conditions leaves 43 men dead: four killed by inmates, 39 by police. -- Part 12: runtime = 0:56:20, xvid.640x480.1097kbps.mp3.160.vbr, filesize = 500MB -- Part 13: The Keys to the Kingdom (1974-80) In the 1970s, antidiscrimination legal rights gained in past decades by the civil rights movement are put to the test. In Boston, some whites violently resist a federal court school desegregation order. Atlanta's first black mayor, Maynard Jackson, proves that affirmative action can work, but the Bakke Supreme Court case challenges that policy. -- Part 13: runtime = 0:56:03, xvid.640x480.1105kbps.mp3.160.vbr, filesize = 500MB -- Part 14: Back to the Movement (1979-mid 80s) Power and powerlessness. Miami's black community -- pummeled by urban renewal, a lack of jobs, and police harassment -- explodes in rioting. But in Chicago, an unprecedented grassroots movement triumphs. Frustrated by decades of unfulfilled promises made by the city's Democratic political machine, reformers install Harold Washington as Chicago's first black mayor. -- Part 14: runtime = 0:55:48, xvid.640x480.1112kbps.mp3.160.vbr, filesize = 500MB -- more info: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/eyesontheprize == If you found this program informative, support the network/series by purchasing their DVDs if available. To help speed up future releases, please try to seed this torrent as much as possible. Thanks. == SoS = http://www.sonofshun.com/forums ------------ Content Type: [Documentary]
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Eyes on the Prize - Part 7: The Time Has Come (2008.TVRip.SoS-READINFO)

Category: Documentary
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Part of PBS' American Experience, Parts 1-6 were released in 2006 and the other parts in this series are now being aired in 2-episode installments in February. NOTE: This recording was glitchy but releasing it as-is there are no reairs and since other sources for this series are not easily available (other than low quality VHS rips afaik). There are video corruptions for the last 15 minutes and minor audio sync issues before that (fixable by simply adjusting the sync delay in your player). Part 8 has the same problems but to a far lesser degree (less than one minute at the end). Parts 9-10 have no such issues and four other parts are scheduled to air later this month. Originally aired (on PBS): 2008.02.03 Produced by Blackside, "Eyes on the Prize" tells the definitive story of the civil rights era from the point of view of the ordinary men and women whose extraordinary actions launched a movement that changed the fabric of American life, and embodied a struggle whose reverberations continue to be felt today. Winner of numerous Emmy Awards, a George Foster Peabody Award, an International Documentary Award, and a Television Critics Association Award, Eyes on the Prize is the most critically acclaimed documentary on civil rights in America. "Eyes on the Prize" recounts the fight to end decades of discrimination and segregation. It is the story of the people -- young and old, male and female, northern and southern -- who, compelled by a meeting of conscience and circumstance, worked to eradicate a world where whites and blacks could not go to the same school, ride the same bus, vote in the same election, or participate equally in society. It was a world in which peaceful demonstrators were met with resistance and brutality -- in short, a reality that is now nearly incomprehensible to many young Americans. Through contemporary interviews and historical footage, "Eyes on the Prize" traces the civil rights movement from the Montgomery bus boycott to the Voting Rights Act; from early acts of individual courage through the flowering of a mass movement and its eventual split into factions. Julian Bond, political leader and civil rights activist, narrates. Part 7: The Time Has Come (1964-66) After a decade-long cry for justice, a new sound is heard in the civil rights movement: the insistent call for power. Malcolm X takes an eloquent nationalism to urban streets as a younger generation of black leaders listens. In the South, Stokely Carmichael and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) move from "Freedom Now!" to "Black Power!" as the fabric of the traditional movement changes. more info: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/eyesontheprize == runtime = 55:28 xvid.640x480.1119kbps.mp3.160.vbr file size = 500MB If you found this program informative, support the network/series by purchasing their DVDs if available. To help speed up future releases, please try to seed this torrent as much as possible. Thanks. == SoS = http://www.sonofshun.com/forums
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Malcolm X in Color

Category: Talks, Debates, Interviews
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Malcolm X in color. The main file of this compilation is the appearance of "Malcolm X" in mid 1963 on a TV serie titled "City Desk" (in color). Interviewed (or interrogated !) by 4 TV anchors, Malcolm X - though still flawed at that time - demonstrates his brilliance and candor for all to see in "the magic box" (TV). Duration : 28 mns Size : 100 MB Video Format : .wmv
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