Home Movie: Akin Collection: 170111 (silent)

Genre: home movie

Description: Description: Content advisory: The Confederate army appears ready to rise again in this reel, expressed in troops, flags, insignias, banner messages, and civic speechifying. In the Jim Crow south, in Hazlehurst, Mississippi, the streets were safe for white supremacists in both winter and spring street parades and a civic festival. Between parades, the camera is at home with a suburban white family that employs African American domestic workers, who reside in a home interior paneled everywhere in knotty pine. With puppies. note on container: 1. "X-mas parade '60, X-mas morning '60, Doug's birthdays '60 and '59, Easter '60 (poor)" 2. "January 1961, Fencible parade Jackson, Easter morning 1961, Christmas Parade 1961" 3. "dogs in yard, Fencible parade March, 1961" Reuse Statement: For information on reusing Prelinger Archives footage and obtaining written usage agreements, please visit www.prelinger.com. Subjects: 1950s, 1960s, Holidays, Parades and processions, Racism , White supremacy, U.S. Civil War Tags: Boy Scouts of America; parades; uniformed children; street scenes; main street; DEN banners; library float; Mickey's Restaurant neon sign; Hazlehurst Garden Club float; Wesson Elementary Band; Gallatin Club float; police cars; parade bystanders; H.S. PTA float; nativity scenes; nativity parade float; neon signs; dusky light; winter parades; Christmas parades; White Xmas banner; Confederate uniforms; "Rebs Aiming for a White Xmas" banner; Dockery Transports truck; rain on the parade; people wearing raincoats; living room interior; pool tables; knotty pine paneling; knotty pine bookcase; Christmas trees; fireplaces; gun display over fireplace; Christmas stockings; typewriters; boy plays with typewriter; opening Christmas presents in pajamas; dad wears terrycloth robe; African American domestic worker; Black labor; Black domestic labor; football covered in autographs; grandparents arrive; 1950s fashions; 1950s winter coats; 1950s hair styles; multigenerational families; man smoking indoors; kids in football uniforms; front yards; home exteriors; suburban streets; exterior Christmas decorations; suburbs; ranch style architecture; split-level homes; birthday parties; Easter egg baskets; birthday cakes; toy guns; kids party; matching outfits; boy posing with guns; pan shelf of 1950s children's toys; tiny puppy; Pug puppy; Dachshund dogs; Pekingese dogs; small dogs; pets; backyards; Lerner Shops sign; Confederate flags; CSA; men dressed as Confederate troops march in uniform; Confederate States of America flag; antebellum nostalgia; women wear 1860s dresses; confederate speeches; The Hazlehurt Fencibles banner; baton twirling dancers; Lions Club; FFA float; Bank of Hazlehurst; radiators sign; Santa Claus; African American bystanders; Black citizens; Black residents of Mississippi; Jim Crow; Film Sponsor: Creator: Akin Family Credits: Distributor: Contributor: Prelinger Archives Source Collection: Dr. R.M. Akin Collection PC-0757, Prelinger Archives Home Movie Collection Digitizing Sponsor: Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web (FFDW) and Internet Archive Production Date: 1959; 1960; 1961 Release Date: Geographical Location: USA; Mississippi; Hazlehurst, Mississippi Genre/Form: home movie Language: Rights: Film Format: 8mm film Element: positive Color: color Color Process: Kodachrome Sound or Silent: silent Film Soundtrack Type: mos Edge Code: square square, triangle Frame Rate: 16 fps Length (feet): 376

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