Harmon Foundation Collection. 1922 - 1967. Motion Picture Films on Community and Family Life, Education, Religious Beliefs, and the Art and Culture of Minority and Ethnic Groups. 1930 - 1953. NEGRO NOTABLES; NEGRO EDUCATION AND ART IN THE U.S

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Harmon Foundation Collection. 1922 - 1967. Motion Picture Films on Community and Family Life, Education, Religious Beliefs, and the Art and Culture of Minority and Ethnic Groups. 1930 - 1953. NEGRO NOTABLES; NEGRO EDUCATION AND ART IN THE U.S

1937

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UNEDITED FOOTAGE: Shows educator Mordecai W. Johnson, his wife and two of his children reading and singing together at home in Washington, D.C. In Hampton, Va., Hampton University coach of athletics, Prof. Charles H. Williams, at interview; publisher Isaac Fisher at his desk; singer-accompanist Luther and Mrs. King are interviewed, and he sings. Educator Mrs. Mary McLeod Bethune autographs a book, and speaks to camera in Calhoun, Alabama. In Nashville, Tenn., financier James C. and Mrs. Napier pose composer-teacher Dr. John W. Work at piano; physics researcher-teacher Dr. Elmer S. Imes tests battery in laboratory. Sociology researcher Charles S. Johnson at his desk; and Warren Logan, W.E. Burghardt Du Bois, James Weldon Johnson, Charles S. Johnson and Ira Reid pose for camera; close-ups of each, Chemist-teacher Dr. Thomas W. Turner works in laboratory in Hampton.

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