From These Roots

Duration: 10:00

Year Published: 1974

Creator: Exxon Corporation

Complete Record: Subject: Black American History - music, literature in the roaring 20s (1920s); discusses racism of the period. Shots: Black & white stills of Harlem Renaissance; stills only. Includes shots inside homes, photo portraits of prominent people like Duke Ellington, Josephine Baker, Ethel Waters, Bo Jangles, Fats Waller, Paul Robeson, Bessie Smith; many portraits of Langston Hughes; images of the Ku Klux Klan / KKK and lynchings; features publications like “Crisis Magazine”; shows 5th Avenue “Silent Protest Parade”; W.E.B. Du Bois; James Weldon Johnson.