News from: Oakland Public Library FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 4, 2019 AAMLO Digitizes Black Panther Party Films All digitized films can be viewed online Web: http://oaklandlibrary.org/news/2019/04/aamlo-digitizes-black-panther- party-films Oakland, CA – In April 2018, the African American Museum & Library at Oakland was awarded a Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) Recordings at Risk grant to digitize and provide access online to 98 films documenting the Black Panther Party (BPP) and student and union protest movements of the late 1960s and 1970s from the Henry J. Williams Jr. Film Collection. Those films are now available online in AAMLO’s Internet Archive page or in the finding aid for the Henry J. Williams Jr. Film Collection in the Online Archive of Media Contacts: California. Matt Berson The films include footage shot by the documentary film collective Newsreel, an Public Information Officer organization founded in New York City by a group of radical filmmakers with Oakland Public Library collectives in New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles. California Newsreel 510-238-6932 produced three documentary films on the Black Panther Party, Off the Pig (1968),
[email protected] MayDay (1969), and Repression. The digitized films include outtakes and b-roll footage of: • MayDay rally – May 1, 1969 protest against police aggression and to free Huey P. Newton. Includes speeches by BPP members Bobby Seale and Kathleen Cleaver, Vietnam War activist and co-founder of the Youth International Party Stew Albert, Black newspaper publisher and politician, Carlton Goodlett, and Newton’s lawyer, Charles Gary. • Conference for a United Front Against Fascism – The Black Panthers' first national conference on anti-fascism held from July 18 to 21, 1969 at the Oakland Auditorium and DeFremery Park.