| 00:00:43 0.47 |
TITLE CARD READS: "THREE NEGROES SEEK OFFICES UP FOR
ELECTIONS AS NEW YORK COUNCILMEN" |
| 00:00:52 9.47 |
MS CANDIDATES RUNNING FOR N.Y. COUNCILMEN: NORMAN
JOHNSON, BENJAMIN DAVIS, JR. & JOHN A. ROSS |
| 00:01:24 41.47 |
TITLE CARD: HAITI PRESIDENT VISITS WASHINGTON,
D. C. ELIE LESCOT MAKES FINE IMPRESSION |
| 00:01:30 47.47 |
PRESIDENT LESCOT'S LIMOUSINE ARRIVING, POSING
FOR PHOTOGRAPHS, MEETING PRESIDENT & ELEANOR ROOSEVELT, MEMBERS OF HIS CABINET |
| 00:02:13 90.47 |
TITLE CARD: LESCOT TELLS OF HAITI WAR EFFORT
|
| 00:02:19 96.47 |
MS LESCOT GIVING SPEECH IN FRENCH W/ENGLISH
SUBTITLES AT BOTTOM OF SCREEN |
| 00:03:39 176.47 |
TITLE CARD: FOREIGN STUDENTS CROWD HOWARD "U"
TAKE UP MANY ARTS, TRADES & PROFESSIONS |
| 00:03:44 181.47 |
MS PAN BLACK FOREIGN STUDENTS FROM CARIBBEAN,
AFRICA & ELSEWHERE |
| 00:04:58 255.47 |
BANQUET HONORS CONGRESSMEN POWELL MANY WELL
KNOWNS AT TESTIMONIAL TO STATESMAN |
| 00:05:03 260.47 |
MS NAMIE BURROUGHS AT PODIUM INTERCUTS ALL BLACK
AUDIENCE |
| 00:05:11 268.47 |
SCU MRS. FANNY ROBINSON & COUNCILMEN BEN DAVIS
|
| 00:05:15 272.47 |
MS "THE BLACK EAGLE" HUBERT JULIAN
|
| 00:05:18 275.47 |
MS & CU REVEREND ADAM CLAYTON POWELL AT PODIUM
INTERCUTS AUDIENCE OF UPPER CLASS WOMEN SOME WEARING FUR COATS |
| 00:05:37 294.47 |
TITLE CARD: UNION WORKER OFF TO BRITAIN WILL
STUDY PROBLEMS OF WOMEN IN INDUSTRY |
| 00:05:41 298.47 |
MS FEMALE REPRESENTATIVE OF THE LABOR DELEGATION
TO ENGLAND BEING CONGRATULATED BY AFL SPOKESMAN |
| 00:06:01 318.47 |
CU WOMAN REPRESENTATIVE GIVING SPEECH ON
BEHALF OF INTERNATIONAL LADIES GARMENT WORKERS UNION AMERICANS GOING TO LEARN FROM ENGLAND |
| 00:06:38 355.47 |
TITLE CARD: AFRICANS IN ACTION 81ST WEST AFRICAN
DIVISION IN BURMA |
| 00:06:45 362.47 |
SCENES OF NIGERIAN SOLDIERS IN BURMA CARRYING
FIGHTING EQUIPMENT ON THEIR HEADS, CROSSING A RIVER IN SMALL BOATS |
| 00:07:52 429.47 |
SCENES FROM 81ST DIVISION HOSPITAL BIVOUAC
MEDICS DOCTORS BANDAGING WOUNDED SOLDIERS, LISTENING TO HEARTBEATS |
| 00:08:24 461.47 |
TITLE CARD: INTERRACIAL GROUP MEETS YOUTH
CONDUCTS WAR ON PREJUDICE |
| 00:08:30 467.47 |
SCENES FROM CONFERENCE IN CHICAGO, INTERCUTS
AUDIENCE & SPEAKERS AT PODIUM. PATRICIA CASSIDY, KERRY OR CARRIE GREEN AT PODIUM. STUDENTS, TEACHERS & MEMBERS OF CLERGY IN AUDIENCE |
| 00:09:20 517.47 |
TITLE CARD: CONGRESSMEN FROM NEW YORK AND
ILLINOIS |
| 00:09:24 521.47 |
MS & CU DAWSON & POWELL WALKING AROUND CAPITOL
BUILDING IN WASHINGTON D. C. |
| 00:09:51 548.47 |
TITLE CARD: START 1945 DRIVE FOR COLLEGE FUND
CHAIRMAN OF CAMPAIGN GIVEN TOKEN OF THANKS |
| 00:09:58 555.47 |
MS DIRECTORS OF "THE UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND"
DR. JOHNSON, PRESIDENT OF HOWARD UNIVERSITY, DR. PATERSON. WALTER HUBBING PRESENTED SCROLL FOR HIS HELP IN THE DRIVE |
| 00:10:19 576.47 |
MS PAN FLORENCE REED, DR. PATERSON & THOMAS
JONES |
| 00:10:28 585.47 |
MS GROUP PAN
|
| 00:10:39 596.47 |
TITLE CARD: FREEDOM CELEBRATED CONGRESSMAN
POWELL SPEAKER IN WASHINGTON |
| 00:10:44 601.47 |
VARIOUS ANGLES CONGRESSMAN POWELL AT PODIUM
ON ANNUAL FREEDOM DAY CELEBRATION. INTERCUTS AUDIENCE LISTENING & APPLAUDING |
| 00:11:23 640.47 |
TITLE CARD READS: "CONDUCT NEGRO HISTORY WEEK DR.
WOODSON, FOUNDER OF IDEA, TALKS" |
| 00:11:30 647.47 |
MS DR. WOODSON TALKING ABOUT THE CELEBRATION
& BLACK / AFRICAN AMERICAN ACHIEVEMENTS |
| 00:12:27 704.47 |
TITLE CARD READS: "FICTION AWARD TO NEGRO GIRL ANN
PETRY WINS $2,400 FOR "THE STREET"" |
| 00:12:34 711.47 |
MS ANN PETRY & AUBREY PANKING ?SP
|
| 00:12:54 731.47 |
TITLE CARD: CAPITAL MAN WELL AT 102 VOTED FOR
GRANT, AND STILL YOUNG |
| 00:12:59 736.47 |
MS MR. WIGGINS BEING INTERVIEWED TALKS ABOUT
VOTING FOR GRANT |
| 00:13:23 760.47 |
TITLE CARD: NO RELAXING FOR O. P. A. LEADERS
URGE ALL TO CONTINUE EFFORT |
| 00:13:30 767.47 |
SCENES FROM REGIONAL MEETING IN CHICAGO
|
| 00:13:40 777.47 |
CU POSTERS CIRCA 1940s ON FIGHTING INFLATION
|
| 00:13:50 787.47 |
PUBLIC RELATIONS EXPERT BRYANT A. HAMMOND
GIVING PRESENTATION. USING POINTER & VISUAL BOARD. CU POSTERS URGING CITIZENS TO CAR POOL PREVENT INFLATION |
| 00:14:49 846.47 |
TITLE CARD: NOTABLES AT CONFERENCE LIBERIANS AND
ETHIOPIANS PRESENT |
| 00:14:53 850.47 |
LS PAN SAN FRANCISCO CIRCA 1940s. MS CAPITAL
BUILDING, S.F. GOVERNMENT BUILDINGS CARS |
| 00:15:07 864.47 |
SAN FRANCISCO TRAIN STATION. TRAINS CIRCA 1940s
PULLING INTO STATION, COMMUTERS PASSENGERS ON PLATFORM |
| 00:15:14 871.47 |
MS PAN DELEGATES FROM LIBERIA, COL. GRANT,
WALTER WALKER, RICHARD HENRY, SENATOR J. L. GIBSON, SEC. OF STATE J. L. DENNIS & V. P. C. L. SIMPSON |
| 00:15:30 887.47 |
CU BLACK BUSINESSMEN & WOMEN LEAVING TRAIN
|
| 00:15:37 894.47 |
MS PAN ETHIOPIAN DELEGATES
|
| 00:15:51 908.47 |
MS MEMBERS OF ELKS CLUB, JAMES KELLY & WIFE
JUDGE PERRY HOWARD, MRS. TERESA ROBINSON, HENRY LEWIS AND MORE |
| 00:16:20 937.47 |
ELK MEMBERS, DELEGATES WALKING PAST VIEWER
|
| 00:16:32 949.47 |
MOTORCADE WITH MOTORCYCLE POLICEMEN PASS VIEWER
|
| 00:16:42 959.47 |
C. I. O. UNION HOLDS RALLY CHICAGO MAYOR AND PAUL
ROBESON SPEAK |
| 00:16:47 964.47 |
SCENES FROM RALLY IN CHICAGO STOCK YARD WORKERS
MAYOR KELLY AT PODIUM. MS PAN WORKERS LISTENING PAUL ROBESON, ACTOR, AT PODIUM. |
| 00:17:09 986.47 |
MS GROUP OF BLACK MEN LEANING & SITTING ON CARS
LISTENING INTERCUTS ROBESON AT PODIUM |
| 00:17:15 992.47 |
MS AUDIENCE OUTDOORS APPLAUDING
|
| 00:17:19 996.47 |
SCU MAYOR KELLY & PAUL ROBESON
|
| 00:17:27 1004.47 |
TITLE CARD: DELEGATES VISIT ZOO SAUDI ARABIANS
ON SIGHT SEEING TOUR |
| 00:17:33 1010.47 |
MONTAGE SAUDI DELEGATES WALKING AROUND ZOO IN
TRADITIONAL ARABIC COSTUME. UNITED NATIONS. |
| 00:17:44 1021.47 |
YOUNG GIRL PRESENTS FLOWERS TO DELEGATES
|
| 00:17:48 1025.47 |
CU SAUDI DELEGATES IN COLORFUL COSTUME
|
| 00:18:09 1046.47 |
MS ZOOKEEPER RIDING GIRAFFE LIKE A HORSE
|
| 00:18:24 1061.47 |
TITLE CARD: ATTY. GIBSON IS PROMOTED TOLEDO
LAWYERS IS GIVEN NEW POST |
| 00:18:28 1065.47 |
SCENES OF JAMES GIBSON IN HIS OFFICE SMOKING
PIPE, GOING THROUGH PAPERS, BOOKS, WORKING LOOKING AT MAPS, OPENS GLASS BOOKCASE, READING FROM BOOKS. SCHOLARLY MAN |
| 00:19:04 1101.47 |
TITLE CARD: TROOPS RETURN FROM EUROPE FIRST GROUP
LANDS AT PORT OF NEW YORK |
| 00:19:08 1105.47 |
SCENES OF SHIP BRINGING IN SOLDIERS TO NEW YORK
HARBOR MS PAN BLACK SOLDIERS |
| 00:19:32 1129.47 |
MS SOLDIERS DEBARKING SHIP, WALKING DOWN GANG
PLANK WITH RUCKSACKS DUFFLE BAGS |
| 00:19:50 1147.47 |
POV ON SHIP COMING INTO NEW YORK HARBOR STATUE
OF LIBERTY IN B/G |
| 00:20:09 1166.47 |
TITLE CARD: DR. DU BOIS AT DENVER REPORTS ON
FRISCO WORLD CONFERENCE |
| 00:20:13 1170.47 |
LS TILT DOWN CHURCH FACADE
|
| 00:20:20 1177.47 |
MS SPEAKER DR. WEB DU BOIS, DUBOIS, DEBOIS ON
PULPIT ADDRESSING FULL HOUSE |
| 00:20:48 1205.47 |
TITLE CARD: DRIVE HONORS MRS. BETHUNE SEEK
$55,000 FUND ON HER ANNIVERSARY |
| 00:20:53 1210.47 |
MARY MCLEOD BETHUNE ON HER 70TH BIRTHDAY SPEAKING
TO AUDIENCE FROM PULPIT INTERCUTS AUDIENCE. YOUNG WOMAN SPEAKER ALSO. |
| 00:21:27 1244.47 |
TITLE CARD: COMMENCEMENT AT HOWARD "U" CIO LEADER
AND ROBESON GET HONORARY DEGREES |
| 00:21:33 1250.47 |
SCENES FROM HOWARD UNIVERSITY GRADUATION CEREMONY
CIRCA MID 1940s. STUDENTS, FACULTY MEMBERS ALL GRADUATION CAPS & GOWNS MORTARBOARDS. HONORARY DEGREES. CU ROBESON RECEIVING DEGREE |
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Year: 1940-1949
Color: Black & White
Genre: 1940s NEWSREELS
Specialty CollectionGenre: 1940s NEWSREELS
Description: RARE EXAMPLE OF ALL BLACK NEWSREEL. PRODUCED IN THE 1940s THIS NEWSREEL SERIES WAS SPECIALLY FOR BLACK MOVIE GOING AUDIENCES AND SHOWN ONLY IN MOVIE THEATERS TO BLACK AUDIENCES. AFRICAN-AMERICANS.
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