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Ephemeral film · 15 min

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Content advisory: In the Jim Crow South, Black laborers living within legal segregation are photographed at work. In this Florida landscape reel from the Jim Crow era, circa World War II years, Black workers are shown engaged in a range of types of work including picking, harvesting, and transporting cotton, and timber work. In other sequences, the landscape and natural beauty of Florida area is documented and engaged in a mode of carefree leisure by white tourists, with historic aircraft,…

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