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1930s / 1940s - USA, Southern Life: Alabama Church and Sharecroppers

Reel Number: 221711-10

Color: Black and White

Sound: SIL

Year / Date: 1930s,1940s

Country: USA

Location: Alabama,Tuskegee

TC Begins: 06:22:33

TC Ends: 06:31:21

Duration: 00:08:48

1930s / 1940s - USA, Southern Life: Alabama Church and Sharecroppers CU carved stone: Sweet Gum A.M.E. Zion Church 1868. 06:22:40 LS deteriorated wooden clapboard church; CU broken window glass. 06:22:52 Eroded soil / gully along roadside. 06:23:07 CU ends of logs & in place for building. LS southern mill. 06:23:27 Black workers plastering side of store from scaffolding, cars parked below. MCU. 06:23:59 3 pigs on dirt road; LS two teenage girls walking along dirt lane. 06:24:15 Black sharecropper (?) farmers house, family on porch w/ baby & cat. CUs. Kids up stairs. Pan fields. Girl washes face in basin, smiles 06:25:24 CU woman talks w/ hoe on shoulder. Children make mud cakes; little girl sweeps ground. 06:26:23 Wooden & wire fences; tilt down deep erosion, other shots. Dry earth, small trees planted against erosion. Wooden shelter or picnic table (?). 06:27:43 LS Farm house beneath large tree, clothes on line. 06:27:53 Large wooden church, w/ broken windows. School house. 06:28:07 Black man placing / axing logs for cabin as another watches. 06:28:24 Line of approx. 10 painted houses along dirt road w/ power lines. 06:28:32 Corrugated metal shack w/ Black family around. Eroded hillside. 06:28:54 Man on mule rides past building next to cement mixer. 06:28:01 Sign on ground “Atlanta Life Insurance”, “Tuskegee Cafe”. Sandwich board sign: Cigarettes & Cigars. We Serve Froz-Rite Ice Cream. 06:29:11 Man & old woman on wagon, CUs. 06:29:36 Exterior wooden rural house, Black children open door & pose. 06:30:00 Wooden house beside road w/ brick porch supports. 06:30:08 White man in suit pointing & talking w/ Black farmer; two Black women sitting, talking on porch. Black women & boy in front of house. 06:30:33 White man w/ Black farmer by concrete well talking. CU. 06:30:51 Contoured tilled field around painted farm house. Five Black men working raised beds of nursery (?) w/ sticks uncovering seedlings. Agriculture; Poverty; Blacks; Southern Americana; Segregation; Farmers; Construction; Building Log House;

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