Nearly seven hours of previously unseen news and documentary footage of the Black Panthers movement are now available online through the San Francisco Bay Area Television Archive at SF State.
Film Archivist Alex Cherian works in the San Francisco Bay Area Television Archive.
The 120 clips come from Bay Area television stations as well as documentary films, and offer a glimpse at the social revolutions that took place during the 1960s and 70s and their connection to SF State.
"If you look at the Black Panthers collection, and then you look at our SF State (1968 student-led) strike collection, you're going to see the same faces," said Film Archivist Alex Cherian. The Black Panthers campaigned on the campus, he added, because they believed education was key to advancing the cause of civil rights.
