Dubois_the FBI Files
‘removal’ of all redactions from the William E. B. DuBois FBI Files, a 530 page scroll (approx 600 running ft), table dimensions 240 x 36 x 25 inches, speakers imbedded in table (for audio script scroll down), accompanied by 36 page tabloid of selected pages from the FBI Files distributed for free on UMASS campus, edition of 10,000
commissioned for the exhibition ‘DuBois and Our Time’, UMASS Amherst Museum of Art, UMASS, Amherst, MA
audio script for the in-table speakers:
Nina Simone, Strange Fruit, written by Abel Meeropol 1937
Paul Robeson, HUAC (House Committee on Un-American Activities), June 12, 1956
Randall Robinson, Memory is the Active Agent of Collective Social Progress, Democracy Now, January 13, 2012
Interlude
Wallace, Henry “Jimpson”, No More My Lord, (Mississippi State Penitentiary; Parchman), February 1948, Alan Lomax Recordings
Malcolm X and James Baldwin in conversation, April 25, 1961
Newscast 1968 Olympic 200m Final: winners 1st Tommie Smith (USA) 2nd
Peter Norman (AUS) 3rd John Carlos (USA)
1968 Olympics: The Black Power Salute, Tigerlily Films, 2008
John Carlos, 1968 Olympic U.S. Medalist, on the Sports Moment That Changed The World. Democracy Now with Dave Zirin, Oct 12, 2011
Fannie Lou Hamer, Pacifica Radio Archive, 1965
Interlude
John Coltrane, Alabama
Angela Davis, interview in San Rafael County Prison in 1972 with Bo Holmström
Angela Davis, interview in California Prison with Barry Callaghan, 1970
Excerpts from Prisons on Fire: The Attica Rebellion, The Freedom Archives
Interlude (brief)
John Coltrane, Alabama
Mumia Abu Jamal, Final Boots interview June 13, 2008
Interlude
Ali Farka Toure with Ry Cooder, Ai Du, Talking Timbuktu 1994
repeats_running time 1:15hr