Video URL


13172_39572_african_americans2
Subjects

1965
B&W

Historical film of African Americans (AA) in the US (silent). Various stills of "Jim Crow"/segregation signs, "colored only" and "white only" entrances, businesses and facilities; pull-back shot, AA riders in back of bus; AA classroom full of children; New York Daily News front page, headline fragment "Bar School Segregation;" stills AA children in school; white supremacy poster "Death to All Race Mixers...;" pan from locked gate to empty school building; pan across idle school buses in locked enclosure; AA men and women, students, protesting; pan from "Fountain Closed" sign to empty seats at counter; still photo, AA protesters carrying signs "Open Lunch Counters," "Everybody Wants Freedom;"