- Title: CF371
- Date:1950s
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Summary:
10:00:26 - 10:04:16
Pan across Black only schools and workshops with only Black workers. Stills of Elijah McCoy, Granville Woods and Jan Matzelinger, Henry Tanner, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Charles W Chestnut. CU of Booker T Washington, good shot of Supreme Court of 1896. Images of segregated Amerca. Still shot of W E B DuBois - founder of the National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People NAACP. Good still of NAACP HQ exterior. Still shots of black soldiers in WW1.
10:04:16 - 10:08:41
Still shots of Ku Klux Klan KKK in cars travelling north, burning cross at KKK meeting. Still Shots of Harlem in the 1920s, Duke Ellington, Paul Robeson, Willams and Walker, Mary-Ann Anderson, WC Handy, Arna Bontemps, Langston Hughes, Daniel Hale-Williams, Carter Woodson, Charles Johnson, E Franklin Frasier, Abraham Harris, Ernest Everett Just. Shtos of 'No Help Wanted' signs, great depression, soup kitchens etc. Franklin D Roosevelt signs the New Deal. Still of New York in the 30s. Anti Jim Cros signs. Shots of American industry, women at work, black people in defence plants.
10:08:41 - 10:12:40
Zoom down a shanty town like poverty stricken area. Pan around UN conference, African delegate speaking to the UN. CUs of segregation signs around America. Whites only / blacks only. Segregated bus. Overthrowing of separate but equal ruling. Anger in the deep south to the NAACP triumph. Police use water cannons against protesters. Brutal police reactions to peaceful black civil rights marches. - clashes between police and black protesters.
10:12:40 - 10:15:25
Injured women picked up from ground by fellow protester, carried away on a stretcher by ambulance staff. White protesters join the equality marches. Army veterans marching. 'We Will march with Selma' 'Freedom' banners. We shall overcome banner. Inside congress. Martin Luther King. Ralph Bunche. Sammy Davis Junior signs autographs. Good shots of Black actors, musicians, sportsmen. Baseball player rounds the bases. Lots of young black people walking outside schools. Huge crowds of people in Washington. - Description:10:00:26 - 10:04:16 Pan across Black only schools and workshops with only Black workers. Stills of Elijah McCoy, Granville Woods and Jan Matzelinger, Henry Tanner, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Charles W Chestnut. CU of Booker T Washington, good shot of Supreme Court of 1896. Images of segregated Amerca. Still shot of W E B DuBois - founder of the National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People NAACP. Good still of NAACP HQ exterior. Still shots of black soldiers in WW1. 10:04:16 - 10:08:41 Still shots of Ku Klux Klan KKK in cars travelling north, burning cross at KKK meeting. Still Shots of Harlem in the 1920s, Duke Ellington, Paul Robeson, Willams and Walker, Mary-Ann Anderson, WC Handy, Arna Bontemps, Langston Hughes, Daniel Hale-Williams, Carter Woodson, Charles Johnson, E Franklin Frasier, Abraham Harris, Ernest Everett Just. Shtos of 'No Help Wanted' signs, great depression, soup kitchens etc. Franklin D Roosevelt signs the New Deal. Still of New York in the 30s. Anti Jim Cros signs. Shots of American industry, women at work, black people in defence plants. 10:08:41 - 10:12:40 Zoom down a shanty town like poverty stricken area. Pan around UN conference, African delegate speaking to the UN. CUs of segregation signs around America. Whites only / blacks only. Segregated bus. Overthrowing of separate but equal ruling. Anger in the deep south to the NAACP triumph. Police use water cannons against protesters. Brutal police reactions to peaceful black civil rights marches. - clashes between police and black protesters. 10:12:40 - 10:15:25 Injured women picked up from ground by fellow protester, carried away on a stretcher by ambulance staff. White protesters join the equality marches. Army veterans marching. 'We Will march with Selma' 'Freedom' banners. We shall overcome banner. Inside congress. Martin Luther King. Ralph Bunche. Sammy Davis Junior signs autographs. Good shots of Black actors, musicians, sportsmen. Baseball player rounds the bases. Lots of young black people walking outside schools. Huge crowds of people in Washington.
- TYPE:Historical
- DATE:1950s
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- SOURCE:Filemaker
- Decade:
- Colour:B&W
- Keywords:USA, CIVIL RIGHTS, BLACK HISTORY, AFRICAN-AMERICAN, RACISM, SEGREGATION, JIM CROW LAWS, EQUALITY, AMERICAN HISTORY
- Master Title:CF371
- Segment:0
- Sound:Sound