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 man talks to a woman named "Elsie". He tells her that her brother has slain an African American. Elsie stands with the man in front of a house. She expects her father's arrival. She sits on a chair in the house. Men and women in a house. Soldiers in a field. Other people on horse-carts leave the place. They live in a little cabin. They sit inside the cabin. They come out and discuss. The North and South enemies unite again for common defense. African American soldiers arrive at the place with guns in their hands. They search out people.
African American life in the American south, in South Carolina, United States, during the Great Depression. Houses at a distance. Vegetation on farmland. Hills covered with trees in the background. Man sits on a horse. A simple wooden house. Electrical poles in front of the houses. Stairs lead towards a building. Board on top of a shop reads "Alabama Lumber Co." African American men in front of the building. Curving railroad tracks.
African American life in South Carolina, United States, during the mid 1930s Great Depression. Two men walk past the Fireproof Building, a municipal county records building, at 100 Meeting Street, Charleston, South Carolina. A black woman wearing a coat and children seated on a park bench. Black men and women selling cut flowers and planting sprigs along a street side. Houses at a distance and a car in front. Cars move on the road. A fence or walk way with a sign "For white only" painted on it reflecting "Jim Crow" segregation laws.
Cleaning up after a serious flood in Rapid City South Dakota. Trucks parked outside a building in Rapid City, South Dakota. More trucks and bulldozers parked along dirt road. Traffic starting to appear on roads again.
Recovery and relief activities following deadly flood in Rapid City, South Dakota. Salvation Army Emergency Canteen truck arrives outside a building in Rapid City, South Dakota. More trucks arrive. Words on side of truck read 'The Salvation Area Emergency Canteen'. Truck loaded with food supplies. Men carry supplies out from the building and load into the truck. Sign on door reads 'Worker Entrance'. Two women walk away with a food sack.
Relief actions following flood in Rapid City, South Dakota. Mobile homes in Rapid City. Sign reads 'Housing and Urban Development Mobile Home Staging Area'. Mobile Homes in the background. Signs on home read 'HUD Disaster Area Rapid City South Dakota' and 'Federal Disaster Assistance'. Mobile Homes in area.
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