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Dec 13

There’s been lots of talk recently about Baltimore’s early involvement with the Civil Rights Movement and its lack of historical coverage. I need to revisit this film and see if there are any other copies out there in better condition. AND then find funding for photochemical preservation. :)

mdhsphotographs:

Desegregation - Baltimore Report, 1956
16mm Kinescope, 40 minutes
Photograph by Siobhan Hagan
Baltimore City Life Museum Moving Picture Collection
Maryland Historical Society
1986.77.1

Aug 10

Crucial! Or “croosh”, as we used to say in high school.

May 31

If it had been televised, the revolution probably wouldn’t have been preserved anyways.

Discussing Civil Rights and smoking up a storm.

awesomepeoplehangingouttogether:

Marlon Brando, James Baldwin, Harry Belafonte, Charlton Heston, Joseph Mankiewicz, and Sidney Poitier discuss the Civil Rights Movement, on the same day as MLK’s “I have a dream” speech. August 28, 1963.