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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
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
Chemical Warfare Service laboratories at Edgewood Arsenal, Columbia University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

A film based on chemical warfare tests in the United States. Shows usage of poison gas on the Allies by the Germans in France during World War I. Casualties of chemical warfare being evacuated. The U.S. Capitol Building and the Washington Monument in Washington DC. Brief aerial view of White House. Establishment of U.S. Army Chemical Warfare Service on July 1st , 1920 shows a sign which reads 'Office of the CHIEF Chemical Warfare Service'. Chief of the Chemical Warfare Service Major General William N. Porter at his desk. Various processes carried out by the Chemical Warfare Service. The Edgewood Arsenal Laboratories in Baltimore. Samples of gas are analyzed by technicians. Chemical warfare laboratories at Columbia University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Date: 1944
Duration: 2 min 5 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675061087
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
Comparing conditions of racially segregated schools for African Americans and whites of South Carolina, USA.

A teacher of a segregated African American school in South Carolina, rings the bell for the students to attend the classes. The amenities of the school added by labor of the children and teachers of the school itself. Poor conditions and poverty exemplified by dirty and unsafe outhouse. Views of nicer facilities in white schools. White students playing basketball.

Date: 1936
Duration: 2 min 44 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675035947
Comparison of bus transportation facilities for students of African American and white schools, South Carolina in USA.

Educational dissimilarities between the students of African American and white origin in South Carolina. Parked school buses. White students climb a bus to carry them to their schools. Bus passing an Esso gas station. A group of African American children walks along a road to reach their school.

Date: 1936
Duration: 1 min 12 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675035953