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Join this channel to get access to perks: Want to learn more about Periscope Film and get access to exclusive swag? Join us on Patreon. Visit Visit our website Part 1: A John Birch Society film made shortly after the Watts Riots, this film is the second half of an American right-wing propaganda film that argues the riots of the 1960s American Civil Rights Movement were evidence of a Communist revolution at home. While the first installment focuses on the methods used by Reds to take over China, Cuba, and Algeria, this installment assesses how communists may be planning to create an independent African American state. World map highlighting countries with Communist regimes (0:10). Illustrated portrait Joseph Pogany/ John Pepper; Underlined quotes in “American Negro Problems” guiding the Workers Communist Party of America (0:23). Cover and quotes from “The Negroes in a Soviet America” by James W. Ford, James S. Allen (2:00). Map of southern states highlighting where possible independent republic would be located, “Black Belt of the south” (2:21). Music plays, banners waved at National Convention of the American Communist Party New York City; James Ford speaks from podium (3:06). Interviews with “reformed” Communists: Leonard Patterson speaks to camera about career in Communist party and realization of Communist agenda to take over the USA (4:31). Julia Brown, former undercover agent of FBI (6:04). Black reverend speaks to church congregation (7:30). Speech by segregationist during the St. Augustine Movement (8:18). Another speech Rev. Ralph Abernathy (8:53). Ku Klux Klan meeting, leader speaks from podium to crowd (9:18). Speech by California segregationist Rev. Connie Lynch, Confederate flags waved by audience (10:22). Martin Luther King Jr. (10:55). Image of black men in protest, terms for white men overlaid image (11:04). Julia Brown interview continued (11:51). Lenin quote (13:13). Stalin quote (13:18). Different chapters of Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) march for integration of schools (13:25). Popular slogans in US, Venezuela, Cuba: “Freedom Now,” “One Man One Vote,” “Venceremos/ We Will Overcome” (13:45). Black, white protestors link arms sing “We Shall Overcome” (14:26). Leonard Patterson interview continued (15:07). Funeral procession to burial site perhaps in California (17:04). Medgar Evers funeral at Arlington Cemetery, Roy Wilkins speech (17:49). LIFE, Ebony, Time Magazine covering Medgar Evers death (18:42). Destroyed buildings, charred remains of churches in Algeria and USA; 16th Street Baptist Church bombing (18:52). Memorial service for victims All Souls Church, Washington D.C. - protesters march in nation’s capital (19:40). Viola Liuzzo; magazine clippings covering her death; Selma to Montgomery March (20:01). Leonard Patterson interview continued (20:57). Perry Smaw cabin, Alabama; death announcement poster (21:40). Text, gruesome images found in “True Aspects of the Algerian Rebellion” book by French Army (22:33). Lenin quote (22:50). Rev. Ralph Abernathy speaks to church congregation (24:36). MLK Jr, Rev. Ralph Abernathy speak to audience from podium in St. Augustine (25:20). Non-violent protest: Two women stage sit in at diner, freedom rides on Houston bus, women picketers, empty busses from boycotts (28:33). Images of Castro with leaders of Humanistic Revolution compared with image of MLK, Civil Rights movement leaders standing arm-in-arm (29:02). Marches in Selma, Alabama - “We Shall Overcome” plays in background, MLK quote (29:34). Protests in front of White House (30:42). Crowds gather at Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool for March on Washington (31:05). President Johnson announces Civil Rights Bill 1964 (31:28). Cars stuck in bumper-to-bumper traffic while protestors walk alongside highway from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama (32:21). Voting Rights Bill 1965 (32:55). Gospel choir sings in front of pipe organ (34:07). World map highlighting countries with Communist regimes appears again (34:56). Map of United States titled “Soviet America,” small space highlighted over southern states labeled “Soviet Negro Republic” (35:12). Crown brand retro transistor radio, photo Robert F. Williams (38:24). Cover of “The Crusader” newsletter (39:00). Williams televised speech (39:35). Footage of Watts Riots in Los Angeles, armed law enforcement, destroyed buildings, fire, smoke (39:50). People’s Voice publication (40:25). Montage of anti-Communist, anti-Civil Rights movement propaganda literature from American Opinion Library (43:08). This film is part of the Periscope Film LLC archive, one of the largest historic military, transportation, and aviation stock footage collections in the USA. Entirely film backed, this material is available for licensing in 24p HD, 2k and 4k. For more information visit
