All-American news
[1945-06, no. 2]
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Alexander, William D.,
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Glucksman, E. M. (Emanuel M.),
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Barnett, Claude,
1889-1967
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All American News, Inc.
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Newsreels.
Nonfiction films.
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1945
monographic
[1945]
eng
1 video file (digital, MPEG-4) (inc.) (ca. 6 min.) : sd., b&w.
All-American news were the first newsreels produced for a black audience. Made in the 1940s and 1950s, they were originally intended to encourage black Americans to participate in, and support the war effort, and to reflect an African-American perspective on world and national events. Highlights of this issue include a segment about Miss Sepia, an American cook interviewed in China about VE Day, commencement and graduation at Howard University.
90,000 at Holy Hour, Chicago offers prayers for permanent peace (1 min., 4 sec.) -- Rev. Hill is candidate, runs for common council, in Detroit (19 sec.) -- Present gifts to Freedman's, audimeter and gatch bed are received (1 min., 53 sec.) -- "Miss Sepia" is chosen, will compete in Atlantic city (33 sec.) -- China learns of V-E Day, see bulletins on their "Times Square" (1 min., 5 sec.) -- Commencement at Howard "U", CIO leader and Robeson get honorary degrees (1 min., 25 sec.).
[produced by] William Alexander, Emanuel Glucksman, Claude Barnett.
Date in title and possible date of release are based on Chicago's Holy Hour on June 10th, 1945. Date taken from newspaper article.
Some footage provided by the United States Army Signal Corps.
Incomplete: opening titles lacking. DLC
Cannot confirm that newsreel stories are in the same order, or on the same reel as when originally released. DLC
Sources used: Moon, S., Reel Black talk, p. 3-6; Sampson, H., Blacks in black and white, p. 437-440; Wheeler, R. "News for all Americans" in American visions, Feb.-Mar. 1993, p. 40, viewed online, June 22, 2018 via Academic OneFile; The New York Age, June 30, 1945, p. 6; The Daily Free Press (Carbondale, Illinois), June 11, 1945, page 1, via ProQuest Historical Newspapers, viewed July 12, 2018.
Appearing: Archbishop Stritch, Reverend Charles Hill, Dr. Charles Drew, Mordecai Johnson, Reverend Benjamin Mays, Philip Murray, Paul Robeson.
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Stritch, Samuel Alphonsus,
1887-1958
Hill, Charles Andrew,
1893-1970
Drew, Charles,
1904-1950
Johnson, Mordecai W. (Mordecai Wyatt),
1890-1976
Mays, Benjamin E. (Benjamin Elijah),
1894-1984
Murray, Philip,
1886-1952
Robeson, Paul,
1898-1976
Howard University.
African Americans
Social life and customs
World War, 1939-1945
Participation, African American
V-E Day, 1945
China
Beauty contestants
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MacDonald (J. Fred and Leslie W.) Collection (Library of Congress)
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