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1965
Historical film of African Americans (AA) in the US (silent). Large group of white and AA marchers moving toward camera; marchers under banner "We March with Selma;" multiple shots of white and AA marchers on city streets; still photo, man holding "Freedom!" poster; President Lyndon Johnson addressing congress; Martin Luther King, Jr receiving Nobel Peace Prize; CU Ralph Bunche (first black person to win a Nobel Prize); Robert C Weaver, first black man appointed to the cabinet as Secretary of the Department of Housing; AA woman being sworn into office; James Baldwin, Sammy Davis, Jr., Sydney Poitier, Harry Belafonte, Elston Howard batting for New York Yankees; AA protestors singing, moving past camera, multiple shots; American flag waving, from below; protesters on Washington, D.C. mall