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    Ben Caldwell oral history interview conducted by David P. Cline in Los Angeles, California, 2013 April 11 Ben Caldwell shares his family's history in the Southwest and his childhood experience in New Mexico. Caldwell describes his military service during the Vietnam War and how his experiences made him reflect on racial prejudices in the United States. He began studying art, and he eventually moved to Los Angeles, where he has been part of a black arts movement since the 1970s. He...
    • Contributor: Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Caldwell, Ben R. - Cline, David P.
    • Date: 2013-01-01

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    Norma Mtume oral history interview conducted bv David P. Cline in Los Angeles, California, 2016 June 27 Norma Mtume talks about her involvement with the Black Panther Party (BPP); her work in the free medical clinics established by the BPP and her incarceration on trumped-up charges orchestrated by the COINTELPRO initiative of the FBI. She talks of her subsequent work to establish city-wide free health-care programs
    • Contributor: Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Mtume, Norma - Cline, David P. - Bishop, John Melville
    • Date: 2016-01-01
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    [By right of birth--clips] Consists of short clips, flash frames, and some interior titles; clips appear to be out of order: detective Pinky Webb resting his aching feet; Juanita Cooper being thrown from a horse and aided by Philip Jones; various scenes of Geraldine Cooper, alone and with Manuel Romero; scenes with various characters in Mr. Jones' office, including Pinky Webb, Frank Cooper, Juanita Cooper, Minnie Childers, and...
    • Contributor: Lincoln Motion Picture Company - Smith, Jimmie - Bates, Lester - Brooks, Clarence - King, Webb - Reynolds, Anita Thompson Dickinson - Mitchell, Dora - George, Beatrice - Hall, Beulah - Ellenwood, Grace - Gant, Harry A. - Johnson, Noble - Meehan, Lew - Johnson, George P.
    • Date: 1921
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    Michael D. McCarty oral history interview conducted by David P. Cline in Los Angeles, California, 2016 June 26 Michael "Mac" McCarty talks about joining the Black Panther Party (BPP) in Chicago, IL. He discusses racism in Chicago and the leadership of Fred Hampton of the Party and the beginnings of the Rainbow Coalition that brought together African Americans and Appalachian whites. He recalls the circumstances under which Hampton was assassinated in 1968 at the age of 21 by the COINTELPRO operation of...
    • Contributor: McCarty, Michael D. - Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Cline, David P. - Bishop, John Melville
    • Date: 2016-01-01
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    South Spring Street, Los Angeles, Cal "Various equipages pass, including a tally-ho and six white horses. A peculiar, open-end trolley car comes along; bicycle riders and pedestrians. 50 feet"--Edison films catalog, no 105. "Southern Pacific Company series: The Southern Pacific Company ("Sunset Route") offers special inducements to winter travelers, by reason of its southern route, thereby avoiding the extreme cold of the winter months. Its course lies through a section...
    • Contributor: Blechynden, Frederick - Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - White, James H. (James Henry)
    • Date: 1898
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    Angel. Democracy
    Democracy
    Angelique, known as Angel, moves from France to the United States to marry American architect, John Smith. The newlyweds set up housekeeping in Los Angeles, California. She tries her best to be a good housewife but sometimes runs into problems as she learns English and adapts to her new life and culture. In this episode Angel and Johnny decide to oppose a change in...
    • Contributor: Leslie, Phil - Singleton, Doris - Nicoletti, Louis - Thompson, Marshall - CBS Television Network - Daniel, Eliot - Oppenheimer, Jess - Keefer, Don - Molin, Bud - Baker, Elsie ... Leslie, Phil - Singleton, Doris - Nicoletti, Louis - Thompson, Marshall - CBS Television Network - Daniel, Eliot - Oppenheimer, Jess - Keefer, Don - Molin, Bud - Baker, Elsie - De Grasse, Robert - CBS Films - Albertson, Jack - Stone, Ezra - Feldman, Edward H. (Edward Henry) - Burlingame Productions - Parnell, Emory - Sherman, Fred - McLeod, Catherine - Waterman, Willard - Johnson, Lamont - Fargé, Annie
    • Date: 1961
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    Building a harbor at San Pedro
    Title in Edison films catalog: Building a harbor at San Pedro, California
    "This picture was secured from a launch furnished by Mr. Eager, President of the California Construction Co., who are fulfilling this $5,000,000 contract. Here is seen the largest derrick in the world at work, showing the huge arm straining and swaying. The spray effects are very fine, as the huge rocks strike the water, sending beautiful masses of foam hundreds of feet in the...
    • Contributor: Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1901
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    [Mary Pickford and the Coquette contest winners]
    Mary Pickford and beauty contest winners
    A film featuring the 25 "Coquette girls", winners of a contest conducted as a sales promotion for Mary Pickford's first sound film, Coquette. Newspapers such as the Washington evening star, the New Haven register, and the Louisville courier-journal held a contest in January, 1929. The contestents appear to have been chosen on the basis of "letters of nomination" written by, or for, the girls....
    • Contributor: Pickford Corp
    • Date: 1929
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    Mildred Pitts Walter oral history interview conducted by David P. Cline in San Mateo, California, 2013 March 01 Mildred Pitts Walter discusses her early life in Louisiana, attending Southern University, and moving to Los Angeles in 1944. Pitts recalls meeting Earl Walter whom she married two years later, her work with Earl who headed the Los Angeles chapter of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) from 1951 to 1963, CORE pickets of housing developers in Los Angeles, and her work as a...
    • Contributor: Walter, Mildred Pitts - Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Cline, David P.
    • Date: 2013-01-01

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