New Civil Rights Footage at Global ImageWorks - Rare Interviews, Conversations, and Much More in HD

Just in to GIW is outstanding and unique 1960s footage featuring prominent Civil Rights leaders and counterculture movement personalities. This collection captures an important record of the spectrum of leftwing politics and personalities during the turbulent Sixties. 

Footage includes coverage of the 1967 Dialectics of Liberation congress in London which was a meeting of radical political leaders, Marxist intellectuals, and existentialists. Organized by R.D.Laing, participants include Stokely Carmichael, Allen Ginsberg, Paul Sweezey, Paul Goodman, and Herbert Marcuse among others.

In addition, are several rare interviews, a 1971 prison interview of Angela Davis, a Bobby Seale interview in the 1970s, and Jean Genet interviewing Zayd Shakur (Afeni Shakur’s husband, Tupac Shakur’s mother) in New York City 1969.

In 1963/1964, young cinematographer Robert Elfstrom ventured into a still segregated South. Elfstrom captured the black community struggling with poverty, shown in stark contrast to the prosperous white community of Greenwood, Mississippi.

The footage shows the indignity of segregation, against audio interviews with Malcolm X, John Lewis, and others. The footage culminates with Fannie Lou Hamer giving an impassioned speech at a black church.