African-American Labor, 1930s

Clip: 505051_1_1

Year Shot: 1935 (Estimated Year)

Audio: No

Video: B/W

Tape Master: 1487

Original Film: HFR-SFL-35-055

HD: N/A

Location: United States

Timecode: 02:00:28 - 02:00:53

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Master 1487 - Tape 1 Excellent TLS African-American male construction workers running happily from wood-frame quartermaster shack immediately after getting paid (pay day, payday). LS black and white male laborers walking along dirt road campus of large construction site. LS black men working on construction site, throwing raw aggregate (rocks broken by man operating hydraulic jackhammer on screen right) onto bed of pickup truck. TLS black man operating steam shovel on construction site; load is filled with dirt and unloaded into adjacent dump truck.