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Mayday

Reel Number: 280002-01

Color: Black and White

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1969

Country: USA

Location: Alameda County,California,Oakland

TC Begins: 02:00:45

TC Ends: 02:13:32

Duration: 00:12:47

Mayday The Newsreel - Radical Documentary - re Black Panthers - protest to free jailed Huey P. Newton Poster for “Free Huey” rally. Pan over Alameda County Court House exterior & empty entrance plaza. 02:01:39 Demonstration w/ placards carrying picture of Newton, chanting. Angela Davis? or Kathleen Cleaver? at microphone. “All power to the people!” 02:03:04 White man in suit says State of California says Huey Newton is danger to community. 02:03:45 Black Panther wall paintings, Poster re Bobby Hutton. Bobby Seale & other pasting posters and Black Panthers distribute leaflets in streets. 02:04:38 Police searching people in streets & standing armed in front of Black panther office - man at microphones recounts standoff & shootout. 02:06:20 Police van locked & drives off. Stills police firing; take man away in car. Eldridge Cleaver? at microphone. 02:07:37 Crowd chants “Free Huey”. Cleaver & others in crowd hold up Mao’s Little Red Book. White men in Alameda County courthouse look out of windows at Panther Rally. 02:08:55 Kathleen Cleaver? or Angela Davis? re Black Panther Party free breakfast program. Black kids eating & women at self-service buffet. Seale re Huey P. Newton Clinic & other initiatives in Black community; mentions such programs also benefiting non-Blacks i.e. Chinese-Americans. 02:10:28 Still poor white people. “We will not fight racism with racism”. White in audience. White man speaks at microphone re duty worldwide. 02:12:00 Black Panthers parade with flags. Angela Davis? or Kathleen Cleaver? “If all the people don’t have justice... liberty... freedom... that means none of us do”. 02:12:25 Still of prison gate w/ sign ‘Obedience to the law is freedom”. Still Huey Newton. Still protesters w/ flag ‘Revolution”. Seale makes audience repeat after him “I am a revolutionary”. Still Huey Newton w/ black beret & holding gun & bullets. May day; Demonstrations; Black Power; 1969; 1960s; 1970s; NOTE: Sold on license fee basis.\

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