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GLOBAL IMAGEWORKS TAKES ON UNIQUE ARCHIVAL AFRICAN-AMERICAN COLLECTION June
25, 2007
Global ImageWorks is exclusively representing a rare and unique film
collection discovered by well-known historian Currie Ballard. The films
document the daily lives of some remarkably successful black towns in
Oklahoma thriving in the aftermath of the infamous Tulsa Riots of 1921. The
footage brings to life this little known piece of history, showing entire
black communities visiting one another’s country homes, parading through
downtown Muskogee in some two dozen Packards, crowding an enormous church in
Tulsa not long after the riots, gathering at the National Baptist
Convention, traveling to Europe, black cowboys riding horses amidst oil
derricks rising from their ranches, various sporting events including very
rare footage of the 1928 Los Angeles to New York “Great American Foot Race”
in which 3 of the finishing runners were black Americans.
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