Digging for black pride
- Date
1971
- Summary
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Shows children in Brooklyn's Bedford-Stuyvesant section learning about their African heritage through classroom activities and "digs" in vacant lots and urban renewal areas to locate artifacts linking them to their 19th century ancestors. Explains that under "Project Weeksville" the black children are piecing together the history and organization of this self-sufficient black community which existed in the early 1800s. Examines how the Bedford- Stuyvesant residents held off white raiders during the Draft Riot of 1863.
- Publishers
Indiana University Audio-Visual Center; National Educational Television
- Genres
Documentary; Historical; Educational
- Subject
Draft Riot, New York, N.Y., 1863 ; African Americans--History.
- Collection
National Educational Television
- Unit
IUL Moving Image Archive
- Language
English
- Rights Statement
- In Copyright
- Physical Description
1 Film (0:19:00); 16mm
- Other Identifiers
IULMIA Film Database: 40000003187145; Other: GR00436335; MDPI Barcode: 40000003187145; MDPI Barcode: 40000003389675; MDPI Barcode: 40000003389691; OCLC: ocn1080866491; OCLC: 1080866491
Access Restrictions
This item is accessible by: the public.