The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975

Please note, this page is under construction. More to come soon.

Click image for link to Fellowship of Reconciliation

"In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." --  Martin Luther King Jr.

PBS Independent Lens Facebook

The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975
PBS Independent Lens

For three decades, the film canisters sat undisturbed in a cellar beneath the Swedish National Broadcasting Company. Inside was roll after roll of startlingly fresh and candid 16mm footage shot in the 1960s and 1970s in the United States, all of it focused on the anti-war and Black Power movements. When filmmaker Goran Hugo Olsson discovered the footage, he decided he had a responsibility to shepherd this glimpse of history into the world. Read more