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Elaine Race Massacre Documentary: Audience and Community Response (Camera 4)
About this film
This archival footage captures an audience gathered in an auditorium, likely attending a presentation or lecture related to the 1919 Elaine Race Massacre documentary. The camera slowly pans across the diverse crowd, showing individuals listening attentively, with some taking notes. A brief cut reveals a cameraman operating a tripod-mounted camera in the dimly lit back of the room. Towards the end of the clip, a quick, blurred shot of the speaker is shown as she discusses the historical context of the riot and the sharecropping system. TAGS: ["Elaine Race Massacre", "documentary", "audience", "lecture", "auditorium", "crowd", "historical presentation", "listening", "note-taking"]
Directors & creators
Arkansas Educational Television Network (AETN)
Subjects
public broadcasting, AAPB, Elaine Race Massacre, 1919, Arkansas, Phillips County, Documentary screening, Public history, Racial violence, African American history, Community education, Historical memory, Sharecroppers, Jim Crow era, Mass racial violence, Suppressed history, Civil rights
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