Friday, October 06, 2006

Tulsa Historical Find!

The African-American past is an iceberg, still 90 percent submerged.
Because so much material remains in family hands or lies piled in the
unvisited attics and basements of libraries, newspapers, and even
police stations, rich discoveries await. Currie Ballard, a historian
in Oklahoma, has just made what he calls "the find of a lifetime"—29
cans of motion picture film dating from the 1920s that reveal the
daily lives of some remarkably successful black communities.

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