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Pacifica Radio Archives 60th Anniversary Mp3 CD collectionThe sounds of Black History as preserved in the Pacifica Radio Archives. Today as we begin to wrap up this pledge drive, we spend the hour exploring the Archives’ 60th Anniversary Black History collection, much of it newly preserved and digitized through a special grant from the American Archives Pilot Project funded by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Many of the recordings in this collection were previously publicly unavailable due to severe tape deterioration, but thanks to new restoration technology we can once again share these historic voices on radio that have been obscured in silence for decades.

The collection of 50 hours of black history recordings include Martin Luther King Jr., Ralph Abernathy, James Baldwin, Langston Hughes, Billie Holiday, Bobby Seale, Huey Newton, Dick Gregory, Angela Davis, Julian Bond, Stokley Carmichael, Amiri Baraka and many others. And it’s our thank you gift to you today for a pledge of $150.

Thank you Gift:

Pacifica Radio Archives 60th Anniversary Black History Month 5 MP3 CD set – $150

Call 818-985-5735 (KPFK) to make a pledge.