HOME MOVIES: 1940s AFRICAN AMERICANS SOUTHERN USA
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This brief, silent footage culled from 16mm home movies show some views of the pre-segregation era American South. At the start of the film "Cultivating Tobacco" shows an African American sharecropper plowing a field with a mule. At :49, African American children dance a jig for the camera. At 1:03, an African American woman hangs laundry out to dry. This footage was shot by anonymous cameramen, presumably whites on vacation in the South in the 1940s.
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