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Dramatization: Ku Klux Klan members rally and enter a town to fight African American forces

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. A house situated aside a street in South Carolina. People and African American soldiers stand. Firing of guns. Smoke arises from firing of guns. Summoning the Ku Klux Clan, or KKK. The clansmen gather together and discuss on the issue. Clan members wear white clothes and masks on the horses. They run on the field. African American soldiers also gather. African American people on street. Clans assembled. Flags in their hands. They ride off toward the gathering of African Americans.

Date: 1916
Duration: 1 min 58 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675027390
Dramatization: Formation of Ku Klux Klan

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. A house in South Carolina. A woman meets another in a boarding. Gus, the renegade stands and watches them. The two ladies meet in a garden. They hug each other. A house situated in background. The woman shakes hands with a man. She talks to him. The Little Colonel arrives. He stands on the street. Both of the ladies talk. The woman leaves after sometime. A chair present outside the house. The little colonel orders Gus to keep away from the girl. Gus talks to another man. The little colonel sits nearby a river. He smokes cigar. Some children arrive near the river. They put a white covering on them and hide in the field. Other children arrive and watch them. The Ku Klux Klan,or KKK, is formed.

Date: 1916
Duration: 5 min 3 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675027385
African American owned banks, Savings and Loans, and Insurance companies. African American businessman C.C. Spaulding.

African American ownership of banks, Savings and Loans, and Insurance Companies, in the United States. Names on various banks owned by African Americans: Citizens Trust Company; Industrial Bank; The Citizens and Southern Bank and Trust Company, Customers being served by tellers in a bank lobby. Signs on African American owned insurance companies: Metropolitan Mutual Assurance Company of Chicago; Proficence Home; Industrial Mutual Life Insurance Company; Supreme Liberty Life Insurance Company, Home Office, at 3501 South Park Blvd, Chicago. African American insurance executive, Charles Clinton (C.C.) of the North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company, seen in his office conversing with another person. Street view of storefront with "Service Federal Savings" painted on window, at 104 East 51st Street, Chicago. A man and woman discuss mortgage matters with a Savings and Loan official.

Date: 1950
Duration: 1 min 23 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675045068
Inequalities in transport facilities for the students of white and African American origin in South Carolina, USA.

Educational inequalities between children of white and colored origin in South Carolina, USA. Diagrams showing the difference in proportion of expenses made by counties to facilitate the transport of African American and white students. A passenger car termed as school bus carries 22 African American children. Children running to catch the car bound for a model school at the Benedict College in Columbia. Views of the model school and African American students entering and exiting it.

Date: 1936
Duration: 4 min 3 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675035954
Pupils and teachers of theFern Cliff School pose for a photograph near the dilapidated school bus, South Carolina in USA.

Educational ill-standards of the African American schools in South Carolina in USA. Pupils and teachers of the Fern Cliff School an African American school pose for a group photograph. Students pose near dilapidated school bus. All the teachers and students stuffed into the same single bus for transportation. The bus is packed to more than its optimum limit.

Date: 1936
Duration: 2 min 10 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675035960
Dramatization depicts: Angry mob outside school waiting to attack African American children in Lamar, South Carolina USA

Excerpt from a film based on the 1970 Lamar High School Bus Attack. African-American students chatting inside a school bus. School bus passing on a road. A gathering of militant white American parents in front of Lamar High School in Lamar, South Carolina (216 N Darlington Ave, Lamar, SC 29069). One African-American student looking agitated inside the school bus. The crowd angrily talk about how letting African-Americans study in the school impedes their rights. “not here, not now, not ever!” said a woman with disgust. A sign saying “Welcome to Lamar” prompts boy to say, "do you think they mean welcome?" “He ain’t gonna be in my grandson’s class!” a man says, pertaining to the possibility of African-American students studying alongside White students. African-American students become agitated as they approach Lamar. Woman wearing a headscarf and sunglasses talks about the arrival of the African-American students with indignation. Man menacingly holds a bat and say “They’ll gonna wish they was never born”. Lamar High School with state troopers guarding the front of the school. The school bus approach. Angry mob member holding baton behind his back, another mob member holding a brick. Angry mob crowd the school bus. African American students, scared, get down on the floor to avoid being hit with projectiles and broken glass from angry mob. The angry mob breaks the school bus windows. Image of state troopers outside Lamar High School. Title sequence of “The Color of Justice” with the overturned school bus in Lamar as the background.

Date: 1970, March 3
Duration: 1 min 31 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675078999