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UC Berkeley Library, The Pacifica Foundation.

http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/pacificapanthers.html

20202020/08/21

This is a historical archive of speeches, radio and audio clips from the 60's and 70's pertaining to the Black Panther Party in California. The main page is essentially a list of dates in chronological order, with historical events and important moments of the Black Panther Party. Sound clips are added to the page by date and its relevance is explained.

UPDATE (Chelsea Obodoechina): Archive has been relocated to https://guides.lib.berkeley.edu/c.php?g=819842&p=5923284

The Social Activism Sound Recording Project is a collaborative project by radio station KPFA-FM (Berkeley, Ca), the Pacifica Radio Archives (Los Angeles) and the UC Berkeley library. Goal: to make recordings of significant people and events from the 60's available to the public. This information was updated on 7/28/2000.

Pacifica Radio Archives, 3729 Cahuenga Blvd. West, North Hollywood, CA 91604, (800) 735-0230, Fax (818) 506-1084; email: pacarchive@aol.com

Unfortunately there is no search.

When the recording is of a speech (rather than a radio recording) the transcript of the speech is often available. However, in many cases, the recording is just an excerpt of the whole speech.

Date the recording was made is usually found underneath the subheading of the date in chronological history. Time of the recording is noted on the page, but exact time is shown on the play bar. Context is great on this site: focus on context and historical reasons and implications of this recording.

Bios are not provided, but links to other websites are available. The context is provided through a chronological historical account of the party's activities.

mp3, streaming.

Photos and videos are available, but as links (part of the archive material).

Real Player Pop-up play bar.

UPDATE (Chelsea Obodoechina): Mobile access is possible, but the website does not cater to mobile devices. Functionality may vary depending on the device.

Browsing is done through chronological listings of date and history. This is good because it paints a very vivid picture of what the party was like at that time, as well as offering many venues for further research.

none.

The fact that there is an organization of the audio files by date and historical relevance creates a more rounded and fuller historical and contextual view of the recordings.