Battery Park in Charleston, South Carolina. People sit on benches in Battery Park. Trees in blossom. Cars on street. Pedestrians on side walk. Street lamps on roadside. Various mansions in view. Vehicular traffic on street. Children play in a park. Two women enter a house.
Battery Point in Charleston, South Carolina. A statue in the park. People sit on benches in Battery Park. A sign reads 'To the Confederate Defenders of Charleston, Fort Sumter'. Exterior of McDowell House. Steeple of Saint Michael's Church in view
The Dock Street Theater in Charleston South Carolina, United States. People move on street outside a building. The board on building reads 'Dock Street Theater'. Another board reads the name of the play 'The Beaux stratagem'. A group of people moves inside the theater. A person checks the tickets of the people. People sit in front of the stage. Performers act during the play.
African Americans living in poverty-stricken condition in Charleston, South Carolina, United States. Black women sit with children on their laps outside a shanty house. An African American woman combs a baby’s hair. A white man plays with African American children. Black children sit in a group and play outside the house. Clothes hanging on rope to dry outside the house. View of deserted warehouses. People move on street in front of the houses. Railroad yards. Charleston mansions in decay. African American man sits on a wooden box. Stairs leading to a building and two children move in front of it.
Clip from a study of educational inequalities between the white and African American populations in South Carolina. A church of African American parishioners. People emerge from their cars and move towards the church. Parishioners entering the church for a church service, and later exiting the church. Views of an African American cemetery. (Charles Hamilton Houston, Dean of the Howard University School of Law, is seen crouched low near a grave beside a young boy. Houston was working together with Thurgood Marshall to film this footage). View of the Crawford Rosenwald School (4009 Saluda Road York County South Carolina) for African American children at Ogden, South Carolina. African American children play and dance at the Ogden School, which was built largely through their efforts due to limited state funding.
Excerpt from the fictional film "Birth of a Nation". A pro-Southern dramatization by actors on the effect of the Civil War and the Reconstruction. Men gather in Masters Hall in the State House of Representatives in South Carolina. Majority of African Americans sit in the hall. An African American speaker speaks in the hall in front of everyone. Another African American man eats on the table. They talk amongst themselves. A man drinks. One of them puts his shoes on the table. A man puts his legs on the table. They misbehave. Speaker asks everyone to wear shoes. White visitors seen in the gallery. An intermarriage bill passed in the meeting. People talk. African American people cheer.
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