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 [African American residents in the Blue Hill Avenue area] Original Airdate: 12/31/1984 Length: 00:17:39 Item Type: newstape - original footage Go back to main record. Full Description 1:00:06 Visual: A young African American man stands on a street corner in Roxbury. The storefronts look vacant. Graffiti is visible on the buildings. African American neighborhood residents pass by on the sidewalk. Another African American man walks across the street and continues down the sidewalk. People stop to talk to one another on the sidewalk. An African American man makes slow dance motions in the street. Elevated train tracks are visible behind him. The man stops and stands at the side of the road. People pass by on the sidewalk. 1:03:45 V: A group of young African American men are gathered on a sidewalk. People pass by them on the sidewalk. One man takes a drink from a bottle disguised in a paper bag. 1:04:44 V: An outdoor market is set up in a vacant lot. African American shoppers choose their produce. The produce sellers bag the produce. Workers replenish the wooden tubs of produce. Shots of the produce. A produce seller pitches the produce to passersby. Workers pile greens in tubs. An African American worker separates some potatoes. African American women stop to talk at the outdoor market. Shots of the shoppers; of the produce. An African American worker unloads boxes and bags from a truck. Another worker measures a bag of produce on a scale. An elderly African American woman ducks out of the way of the camera. 1:10:04 V: An African American shopper examines lettuce. The produce seller weighs and bags the lettuce for her. Shot of worker refilling a display of yams. An African American female shopper jokes affectionately with the produce seller. The elderly African American woman chooses some greens and puts them in a bag. 1:13:00 V: Shots of underbrush on a vacant lot. Trash is strewn among the underbrush. An off-camera voice explains that the outdoor market was held on Blue Hill Avenue. Cars pass by on Blue Hill Avenue near the market. Storefronts on the street look dilapidated and boarded up. Shoppers walk on the sidewalk, away from the market. 1:14:01 V: A man stands at the entrance of the Public Welfare Office in Roxbury. An off-camera voice explains that they tried to get shots inside of the Public Welfare Office; that he could not get shots of the interior of the office. Shot of the words carved in stone above the door, "City of Boston Overseers of the Public Welfare." A few African Americans enter and exit the building. 1:15:29 V: An African American teenage boy stands on a sidewalk in front of a house. A few African American children walk over to greet him. The teenage boy walks down the sidewalk. A car pulls to the side of Blue Hill Avenue. Two African American women exit the car. A group of young African American men walk on the street. African Americans walk along the sidewalk of Blue Hill Avenue. |
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