Eastland Recordings: Only Available Upon Request
Title
Radio Free Dixie Broadcast from Cuba
Identifier
eastland_audioreel_32
Creation Date
1961
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Description
Radio broadcast of Radio Free Dixie from Cuba: begins with a female announcer followed by the songs "Old Jim Crow"; Nina Simone's "Mississippi Goddam"; "Alabama, You're a Friend of Mine"; "Lord, I'm in Trouble"; Robert F. Williams editorial on the oppression of African Americans in the United States and Vietnam; "Good Old Fashioned War"; "The Ballad of Samuel Mabry"; News highlight stories on Dick Gregory turning over evidence of three lynch victims to the FBI; African American protests against police brutality in Jersey City, New Jersey; Robert F. Williams sending a statement of congratulation to China on the first anniversary of Mao Zedong's speech against race discrimination in the United States; and the rebellion of African American troops in West Germany. Followed by "Oh, Freedom" and a female announcer signing off the broadcast. Songs "Feel Like Cryin"; "In the Danger Zone"; "There Will Be No Tomorrow when You're Gone"; "Sweet Little Woman Like You"; "I Like It Like That"; "Shake It"; "Rock Me, Baby"; "I Can't Get No Satisfaction"; "Heartbreaker"; "Come On"; "Sun Going to Shine in My Back Door Someday." Female radio announcer on allocation of an hour to Radio Free Dixie broadcast, followed by instrumental jazz music, then an editorial from the Washington Afro-American on 18 July 1964 "We Are All Involved" on the murder of a Washington legislator, followed by more instrumental music. Williams speaks against American hypocrisy regarding civil rights, arming of civil rights activists. Instrumental jazz music returns, then news highlights about Fannie Lou Hamer and forced sterilization of African American women in Sunflower County, Mississippi; a civil rights leader says the movement is no longer interested in public accomodation; a Heidelberg, Germany a soldier flees unit because of discrimination; remarks of historian John Hope Franklin at a NAACP meeting; comments of author James Baldwin on the Harlem riots; an entertainer arrested in Harlem; Malcom X remarks in Cairo that Martin Luther King and other civil rights leaders have sold out their race; and New York riots. Instrumental music returns. Female announcer signs off of broadcast. "Trouble in Mind"; "Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen"
Subject Headings (Library of Congress)
Radio Free Dixie (Radio program); Race discrimination -- United States; Vietnam; Civil rights -- United States; Hamer, Fannie Lou; Sunflower County (Miss.);China; Mao, Zedong, 1893-1976; Franklin, John Hope, 1915-2009; Baldwin, James, 1924-1987; Race riots; Music
Relational Format
audio recording
Extent
02h22m13s
Original Format
audioreel
Original Collection
James O. Eastland Collection, Archives and Special Collections, University of Mississippi Libraries
Finding Aid
Rights
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Comments
container label: "McAdoo, Radio Free Dixie, Full Track, Side #1 followed by Side #2, 2 speeches by Robert F. Williams over Radio Free Dixie"; circa 1961-1965