Collection Items

  • Film, Video
    All-American news. [1945-03, no. 3]
    Inventory title: All American news 8 | Inventory title: All American news VIII
    All-American news were the first newsreels produced for a black audience. Made in the 1940s and 1950s, they were originally intended to encourage black Americans to participate in, and support the war effort, and to reflect an African-American perspective on world and national events. Highlights of this issue include a segment about women working at a machine shop, and a Big 10 track meet.
    • Contributor: Barnett, Claude - All American News, Inc - Alexander, William D. - Glucksman, E. M. (Emanuel M.)
    • Date: 1945
  • Film, Video
    All-American news. [1945-03, no. 4]
    Inventory title: All American news 8 | Inventory title: All American news VIII
    All-American news were the first newsreels produced for a black audience. Made in the 1940s and 1950s, they were originally intended to encourage black Americans to participate in, and support the war effort, and to reflect an African-American perspective on world and national events. Highlights of this issue include a segment about a meeting of the National Conference of Colored Parents and Teachers, and...
    • Contributor: Barnett, Claude - All American News, Inc - Alexander, William D. - Glucksman, E. M. (Emanuel M.)
    • Date: 1945
  • Film, Video
    All-American news. [1945-03, no. 2]
    Inventory title: All American news 13 | Inventory title: All American news XIII
    All-American news were the first newsreels produced for a black audience. Made in the 1940s and 1950s, they were originally intended to encourage black Americans to participate in, and support the war effort, and to reflect an African-American perspective on world and national events. Highlights of this issue include segments about women making munitions in the Washington Navy Yard, Adam Clayton Powell addressing a...
    • Contributor: Barnett, Claude - All American News, Inc - Alexander, William D. - Glucksman, E. M. (Emanuel M.)
    • Date: 1945
  • Film, Video
    All-American news. [1945-04, no. 2]
    Inventory title: All American news 8 | Inventory title: All American news VIII
    All-American news were the first newsreels produced for a black audience. Made in the 1940s and 1950s, they were originally intended to encourage black Americans to participate in, and support the war effort, and to reflect an African-American perspective on world and national events. Highlights of this issue include a segment about Harriet Wright chosen by soldiers to receive a set of silver, the...
    • Contributor: Barnett, Claude - All American News, Inc - Alexander, William D. - Glucksman, E. M. (Emanuel M.)
    • Date: 1945
  • Film, Video
    All-American news. [1945-01, no. 3]
    Inventory title: All American news, 1945, unidentified issue
    All-American news were the first newsreels produced for a black audience. Made in the 1940s and 1950s, they were originally intended to encourage black Americans to participate in, and support the war effort, and to reflect an African-American perspective on world and national events. Highlights of this issue include segments about the retirement of Mr. Lucas, steward on the President's private railcar, who served...
    • Contributor: Barnett, Claude - All American News, Inc - Alexander, William D. - Glucksman, E. M. (Emanuel M.)
    • Date: 1945
  • Film, Video
    All-American news. [1945-01, no. 2]
    Inventory title: All American news 13 | Inventory title: All American news XIII
    All-American news were the first newsreels produced for a black audience. Made in the 1940s and 1950s, they were originally intended to encourage black Americans to participate in, and support the war effort, and to reflect an African-American perspective on world and national events. Highlights of this issue include segments about Horace Cayton's book, Black Metropolis, the Junior Police and Citizens Corps boys club...
    • Contributor: Barnett, Claude - All American News, Inc - Alexander, William D. - Glucksman, E. M. (Emanuel M.)
    • Date: 1945
  • Film, Video
    San Francisco's future By mid-1916, after viewing the carnage in Europe, the United States saw itself poised with great reluctance on the edge of participation in World War I. Isolationism and anti-preparedness feeling remained strong in San Francisco, not only among radicals such as the International Workers of the Worlds ("the Wobblies"), but also among responsible labor leaders. At the same time, with the rise of Bolshevism...
    • Contributor: Rodiester, Claire - Hearst, Phoebe Apperson - Afi/Post (George) Collection (Library of Congress) - Rolph, James
    • Date: 1916