1936 - USA, Documentary: Study in Educational Inequalities in South Carolina, A R2 of 3

NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk Intertitle: Spiritual guidance & unceasing efforts to gain better educational opportunities are the prime activities of the Negro Church. 04:46:44 Well dressed Black people walk past cars parked around Black church; groups chatting, talking, going into church & coming out. Nearly all wear caps & hats. 04:47:58 MS & CU Men & boy looking at dirt covered graves in cemetery as others look on. 04:48:14 Intertitle re Crawford Rosenwald School at Ogden furnished by “Coloured patrons.” 04:48:24 Children in school yard play, dancing in circle & running. Separate groups of girls & boys w/ teachers (?) play game / Crack-the-Whip. 04:49:12 Girls dancing to kids hand clapping. 04:49:40 Intertitle re Negro individiuals & Churches donating buildings & sites... 04:49:50 White man w/ black men standing in front of unused house. Pan wooden church or school in flat landscape in front of railway tracks. 04:50:10 Intertitle re Mt. Arat Baptist Church providing space till building became uninhabitable. Men inspect derelict small wooden building, previously school. 04:51:03 Intertitle re temporary school in small house & cost. MLS building in front of railway tracks. 68 black children from one room school pour out of school building, pose to camera, including teenage boys. 04:53:33 Intertitle re unused wooden school for Whites 3 miles away. Brief shot w/ broken windows. 04:53:49 Intertitle re Richberg school (White) two miles distant... MLS Brick building, water fountain, school buses parked. 04:54:38 Intertitle re Butler Chapel School closed when county help failed. MS pan of falling down, derelict wooden building, shut down, windows boarded up, Black men inspecting. 04:55:41 Black wooden black church building as temporary school, man walks out. Children sit outdoors on bench for lessons (simulating how they sit indoors). 04:56:42 Interitle: “White children attend Limestone School nearby.” Freshly painted Limestone School (brief); compared to condemned Black derelict school building. CUs. 04:57:34 MS Black children on dirt road put hands up. Pan kids. 04:57:48 Chart compares elementary school attendance figures for Whites and Blacks. 04:58:44 Intertitle: “Parents pay ten cents per child per week to Mrs. Roxanna Frazier for teaching small children in her parlor.” 04:58:57 LS Roxanna Frazier comes out, MS talking w/ White Man taking notes. 05:59:14 Intertitle re Moore’s Pond Black children using laps for desks. 05:59:22 Pan from school building across paved highway. MS of children being taught sitting on benches outside. White or light skinned teacher posing w/ students; in background papers stuck between boards in door show cracks. Pan building. 05:00:33 Intertitle re denied unused White school nearby. Shot of school. 05:01:32 Intertitle re Bethel Grade School built by Julius Rosenwald Fund in 1921 but not maintained by County government except for a new roof. Children pose outside. Most windows are broken. NAACP; Racial Segregation; Ethnic; American Poverty; Rural Southern Economy; American South; Racism; Race Politics; Economics; 1920s; 1930s; Minority Educational Inequality; NOTE: Sold at per reel rate. NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk