An Invaluable Discovery

Currie Ballard, an Oklahoma historian, has discovered (be sure to click on the excerpts) 29 cans of film dating to the 1920s depicting African-American life in what American heritage calls "some remarkably successful black communities." Ballard's next responsibility, he says, is to find an institution capable of transferring this rich resource on to disc to preserve and distribute it for scholars and others to see.

Big thumbs up to Tom for the feed.