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- Title
- Not with Empty Hands
- Date(s)
- 1966
- Contributor(s)
- American Negro Emancipation Centennial Authority (Sponsor), Karamu House (Contributor), General Pictures Corporation (Production company)
- Description
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A film produced by the American Negro Emancipation Centennial Authority (ANECA), Ohio Division, detailing the history of Black people in Ohio. The film opens and closes with a reenactment of an enslaved African American man escaping across the Ohio River to a free Ohio. Uses a combination of historical re-enactment, historical footage, and footage of prominent Black figures, such as Dr. Middleton Lambright, Dr. Zelma Watson George, Benjamin O. Davis, Jr., and Noble Lee Sissle. With...
Show moreA film produced by the American Negro Emancipation Centennial Authority (ANECA), Ohio Division, detailing the history of Black people in Ohio. The film opens and closes with a reenactment of an enslaved African American man escaping across the Ohio River to a free Ohio. Uses a combination of historical re-enactment, historical footage, and footage of prominent Black figures, such as Dr. Middleton Lambright, Dr. Zelma Watson George, Benjamin O. Davis, Jr., and Noble Lee Sissle. With participation from Karma House, Cleveland's oldest African American theatre.
Show less - Collection ID
- Cinecraft Productions films (Accession 2019.227)
- Hagley ID
- FILM_2019227_FC113
- Collection
- Cinecraft Productions Films