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Strike City Pt. 3 of 3

Reel Number: 280006-03

Color: Black and White

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1967

Country: USA

Location: DC,Mississippi,Washington

TC Begins: 02:24:48

TC Ends: 02:32:41

Duration: 00:07:53

Strike City Pt. 3 of 3 Black woman & two children arrive at Washington DC government building; walk down large marble hall. Into entrance of large Congressional hearing room. Entering & sitting down. Man testifying. 02:26:30 Adam Clayton Powell standing in front Chairman of hearing. CU man at microphone in hearing room. 02:27:16 Snow outside tent. Photographs of tents. In Lafayette Park w/ Strike City banner; view towards White House from demonstration, pedestrians. Tents & signs; VO as though talking to Pres. Johnson. Press Conference held in front of tents many reporters & cameramen. 02:28:56 Man at microphone, people singing We Shall Overcome behind him w/ arms linked. Saying they’ll come back another day. Moving truck leaving. CU faces, hands in hands, men women & children. 02;30:47 Man silhouetted against tents. Girl & men & women planting seeds in dirt. Hoeing along rows. Watering plants w/ buckets. Tent entrance flap blowing across wooden platform. Poverty; Plantation System; Slavery; 1960s; 1967; Unemployment; Construction; Farmworkers; Note: No music rights to radio music. Must be cleared if used.

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