It’s been 50 years since the 1966 Hunter’s Point riot that disappeared into the fog of San Francisco’s lost memories. Erupting after police shot a young African-American man running away from a stolen car, it led to martial law and military patrols in both Hunter’s Point and the Fillmore. Join us as we hear from Darrell Rogers who lived through the riot, trace San Francisco’s black community up to the present, and examine the stark similarities then and now with Adriana Camarena, active with several coalitions seeking radical reform of local policing practices after multiple police murders in the past few years.

The first 40 minutes of the program consists of video clips, which are mostly embedded on Foundsf.org pages, with one on the San Francisco Bay Area Television archive at San Francisco State University. The links are here in the order they appear (in most cases you'll have to scroll down the page to find the playable videos)

1. "Take This Hammer" on http://www.foundsf.org/index.php?title=Fillmore_Street_1960 (first 8.5 minutes)

2. http://www.foundsf.org/index.php?title=Segregation_and_the_Civil_Rights_Movement_in_San_Francisco

3. "Point of Pride: The People's View of Bayview/Hunter's Point" (minutes 5:32 to 9:06) on http://www.foundsf.org/index.php?title=Brief_History_of_Bayview-Hunters_Point

4. Thomas Fleming on HP Riot on http://www.foundsf.org/index.php?title=Hunter%27s_Point_riot_by_Fleming

5. John Ross on blockading the Armory on http://www.foundsf.org/index.php?title=Armory

6. Willie Brown at BV Community Center, and young man interviewed here: https://diva.sfsu.edu/collections/sfbatv/bundles/191384

7. "Race Riot of 1966" by Dante Higgins here: http://www.foundsf.org/index.php?title=The_Hunters_Point_Riot

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