Operation Bootstrap

Description: Note: Content warning: contains footage of blackface from 00:13:42-00:14:07. The presence of sensitive or offensive material in this archive is not endorsed or approved by Pleasanton Museum on Main. Pleasanton Museum on Main recognizes and regrets the culturally sensitive nature of this material. However, as indicated by the Society of American Archivists and the American Library Association, removing offensive material is, de facto, an alteration of the archival record and would constitute willfully destroying records to conceal facts or distort evidence. As such, the material in the archive remains as a historical record. Pleasanton Museum on Main is committed to transparency, reconciliation, and education. Film record of the parade at the beginning of the annual Livermore Rodeo in the 1950s, probably 1957 or 1959.