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Close up on dotted image. Camera pulls back to reveal an image of George Washington Carver. An assortment of images: slavery, posters offering rewards fro the return or runaway slaves, drawings of slave auctions, the cover of ‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin’, Civil war imagery, Lincoln addressing a group of black women, Lincoln with a black man and soldiers, portraits of black families, boxer Jack Johnson, Louis Armstrong greeting people in a throng, dancing, races, man holding a huge trophy, factory workers, baseball player Jackie Robinson, young boys carrying school books. A close up then pull back from booklets called ‘Struggle for a Nation’s Choice’. Martin Luther King is on the cover. We then see a peanut on a plain background and the XEROX logo appears. This is an advertisement for a series of booklets produced by XEROX on black history in America for junior and senior high schools.