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The Black Soldier - Reel 1
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keywords: African-Americans, Black History, Black Churches, Boxer Joe Louis, American Revolutionary War, Bunker Hill, Valley Forge
Synopsis: African-American contributions in the Revolutionary War, the Westward Move and Boxer Joe Louis....(read more)
- Date: 1944
- Duration: 00:09:54
- Sound: Yes
- Color: Monochrome
- Type: Public Domain
- Language: English
- Location: U.S.
The Black Soldier: Reel-1
Brief images of large city church in England, a Spanish-Mission style architecture church in America, and a small town or rural church in America. Black children entering rural American church. People entering large stone (Catholic) Church on street corner of eastern city. Choir sings hymn in Black Church. Black pastor in Clergy-Pastor robe delivers sermon. Pastor Moss directs attention to Service Flag On church wall. Pastor Moss recognizes African-American military persons in the congregation by name including a lady WAC (Women's Army Corps).
Flashback to the Joe Louis-Max Schmeling boxing match (second fight) on June 22, 1938 in Yankee Stadium, New York City. Joe Louis won the fight by a technical knockout, cut to congregation in African-American church. Brief images of German paratrooper training. Images of Joe Louis leading boot camp inductees in WWII. Brief image of Adolf Hitler Mein Kampf book being held by Pastor Moss. Shows plaque of the Granary Burial Ground founded in 1660 in Boston, MA. With the use of photographs and video footage Moss speaks of the role African-Americans played in American history starting with the Boston Massacre, the American revolutionary War, Bunker hill, with George Washington in 1776, and at Valley Forge in the winter of 1778. Shows the pioneers building a frontier settlement. Shows a wagon train headed west, labors laying railroad track. Image of fast moving train toward camera. Brief image of oil wells pumping.
- Related Titles:
- The Black Soldier ** full title, 5-reels **
- Wings For This Man: Tuskegee Airmen - Training To Combat
- Teamwork: Black And White Soldiers United
- Black Contribution - Origins
- Black Contribution - Literature And Theater
- African-American Education - Colleges During Wartime
- African-American Education - Looking Toward The Horizon
- African-Americans: We Will Work Again
