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Film, Video One tenth of a nation. Newsmakers Newsmakers / Container title: 10th newsmakers

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About this Item

Title

  • One tenth of a nation. Newsmakers

Other Title

  • Newsmakers
  • Container title: 10th newsmakers

Summary

  • This series highlights the contributions of African Americans to their communities and the nation. In this film, the following newsworthy people are featured: clinic founder Maude E. Callen; the first African American general Benjamin O. Davis; Dr. F.D. Patterson, founder of the United Negro College Fund; former boxer Joe Louis; talented young pianist Philippa Schuyler; distinguished lawyer Thurgood Marshall; composer and musician W.C. Handy; former boxer and ordained minister Henry Armstrong; attorney George W. Crawford, recently named New Haven's corporate counsel; singer Nat King Cole; actor and professor Juano Hernandez; American North Pole explorer Matthew Henson; Nobel Prize recipient Dr. Ralph Bunche; Harvard University student council president Clifford Alexander.

Names

  • Cannon, John, 1921-2001, narrator
  • American Newsreel Corporation (1952-1956), production company

Created / Published

  • United States : [distributor not identified], 1954.

Headings

  • -  African Americans
  • -  African American celebrities
  • -  Davis, Benjamin O.,--1880-1970,--depicted
  • -  Patterson, Frederick D.--(Frederick Douglass),--1901-1988,--depicted
  • -  Louis, Joe,--1914-1981,--depicted
  • -  Schuyler, Philippa,--1932-1967,--depicted
  • -  Marshall, Thurgood,--1908-1993,--depicted
  • -  Handy, W. C.--(William Christopher),--1873-1958,--depicted
  • -  Armstrong, Henry,--1912-1988,--depicted
  • -  Crawford, George W.--(George Williamson),--1877-1972,--depicted
  • -  Cole, Nat King,--1919-1965,--depicted
  • -  Hernandez, Juano,--depicted
  • -  Henson, Matthew Alexander,--1866-1955,--depicted
  • -  Bunche, Ralph J.--(Ralph Johnson),--1904-1971,--depicted
  • -  Alexander, Clifford L.,--Jr.,--1933-2022,--depicted

Genre

  • Educational television programs
  • Nonfiction television programs

Notes

  • -  Appearing: Maude E. Callen, Benjamin O. Davis, Dr. F.D. Patterson, Joe Louis, Philippa Schuyler, Thurgood Marshall, W.C. Handy, Henry Armstrong, George W. Crawford, Nat King Cole, Juano Hernandez, Matthew Henson, Dr. Ralph Bunche, Clifford Alexander.
  • -  Narrator: John Cannon.
  • -  One tenth of a nation a television documentary series premiered on WPIX (New York) on July 11, 1954.
  • -  According to Variety, April 28, 1954, One tenth of a nation was a television series produced by American Newsreel.
  • -  Sources used: Philadelphia Tribune, January 12, 1954, p. 5, accessed via ProQuest Historical Newspapers; National Visionary Leadership Project website, accessed April 2, 2020; NAVCC digital donor inventory (MacDonald (J. Fred and Leslie W.) Collection); Ross reports, July 4, 1945, p. 113 viewed September 6, 2024 via the Internet Archive; Variety, April 28, 1954, p. 37 viewed September 6, 2024 via the Internet Archive; TV guide, New York edition, October 2-8, 1954 (v. 2, no. 40) p. A-21 viewed September 6, 2024 via the Internet Archive; Broadcasting-Telecasting, May 3, 1954, p. 32 viewed September 6, 2024 via the Internet Archive.

Medium

  • 1 video file (digital) (approximately 13 min.) : sd., b&w.

Source Collection

  • MacDonald (J. Fred and Leslie W.) Collection (Library of Congress)

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2020600722

Online Format

  • image
  • video

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Chicago citation style:

Cannon, John, Narrator. One tenth of a nation. Newsmakers. produceds by American Newsreel Corporation Uction Company [United States: distributor not identified, 1954] Video. https://www.loc.gov/item/2020600722/.

APA citation style:

Cannon, J. (1954) One tenth of a nation. Newsmakers. American Newsreel Corporation Uction Company, prod [United States: distributor not identified] [Video] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2020600722/.

MLA citation style:

Cannon, John, Narrator. One tenth of a nation. Newsmakers. prod by American Newsreel Corporation Uction Company [United States: distributor not identified, 1954] Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2020600722/>.