6/25/2007 – GIW Takes on rare 1920’s African American Collection
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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