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Sound of Soul Adopt-a-School

At the last Sound Of Soul Party we raised enough money to preserve over 82 programs, 100 hours of rare, never-before-heard African American audio tapes including those by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, Alice Walker, Langston Hughes, Nelson Mandela, James Baldwin, Rev. Ralph Abernathy, Diahann Carrol, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Angela Davis, Esther Phillips, Audre Lorde, Gwendolyn Brooks, Dick Gregory, Miles Davis, Lorraine Hansberry, Dorothy Dandridge, Muhammed Ali, June Jordan and MORE...

Allee’s own Mumford High in Detroit was the first high school to receive this historic collection. Since then over 1500 schools are in possession of these historic recordings.

Each Rib By Rib, Full Rack and Whole Pig donation will be sent in your name to the High School, College or University Library of your choice. You’ll receive a confirmation letter once the school receives your gift.

5 ribs at $20 a pop = one Full Rack $100 donation

The Full Rack (68 programs – 50+hours) was preserved by guests at the 2007 Allee Willis Sound of Soul Adopt-A-Tape party. Our thanks to: Allee Willis, Lily Tomlin and Jane Wagner, Al, Suzanne and Nina Yankovic, Michael Patrick King, Craig Fisse, Gail Zappa in memory of Frank Zappa, Deborah Cox, Silva Watson Moonwalk Fund, Brenda Russell, L.A. Eyeworks, Hillary Carlip, Maxine Lapiduss, Holly Brooks, Prudence Fenton, Scott Blockland and Michael Mishaw, The Adlon Family, Diane Steinberg and Kenny Lewis, Antonio Hendricks, Georgia Wise, the Kevin Schoeler Foundation, Linda Hart and Bill Forster, Dean Pitchford and Michel Mealiffe, Nancy Ferguson, Charles Phoenix, and Stan Zimmerman.

The Whole Pig includes the entire Full Rack collection plus 90 hours of additional Black History programs preserved by grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the GRAMMY Foundation. Additional audio tapes include: Stokeley Charmichael, Elijah Muhammed, Malcolm X, Muhammed Ali, W.E.B. DuBois, Fannie Lou Hamer, James Baldwin, Odetta, Alberta Hunter, Dorothy Dandridge, Huey Newton, Bobby Seale, Elaine Brown, James Bevel, Wyatt T. Walker, James Chaney, Leroi Jones (Amiri Baraka), Ron Dellums, Ericka Huggins, Eldridge Cleaver, Kathleen Cleaver, Bayard Rustin, H. Rap Brown, Kwame Ture, John Hope Franklin, Miriam Makeba, and MORE...

The Pacifica Radio Archives is a non-profit 501 C-3 organization and is tax-deductible.