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Troublemakers Pt. 1 of 4

Reel Number: 280005-01

Color: Black and White

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1966,1960s

Country: USA

Location: New Jersey,newark

TC Begins: 00:01:08

TC Ends: 00:10:42

Duration: 00:09:34

Troublemakers Pt. 1 of 4 Narration over black explaining Newark Community Union Project, NCUP, project. 00:01:40 Man at desk talking about idealistic movement of students; Black woman talking; other women talking about organizing. 00:02:35 White young man asking: What do you want ot change?” to women & children meeting. Wants a place for teenagers to keep them off the corner. Black teenagers talk about what it should have in it. 00:04:30 Inter-title over freeze-frame: The problems of organizing. Young white man questions how organizers work; others discuss emotional energy re police brutality; rent control. Pan over meeting room or commune w/ people lounging about amid boxes, chairs etc. 00:06:02 Two Black men & boy w/ White organizer on sidewalk in front of small grocery store front. Organizer talking to guy w/ guitar in doorway, others locals listening. CU Black guy: “It’s time the poor man starts doing something for himself.” Others talk about needing to shoveling snow; need to get new politicians; arguing about what it takes to get off unemployment; why the system isn’t working. Need for unity. 00:09:56 White organizer walks into courtyard of old apartment building, washing on line & women & children talking. W/ Black organizers in & out of doorways; pass out leaflets. On sidewalk putting up Sherman Avenue Meeting poster next to Freedom Now poster. Ethnic; African-Americans; Poverty; 1960s; Alternative Culture; Radicalization; Newsreel Films; New Jersey; 1966; Student Involvement; Negroes; Blacks; Counter Culture; Slums; Ghetto; Politics;

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