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Leslie Bain

Harlem Sketches

    RELEASE

    1935-04-07

    BUGET

    N/A

    LENGTH

    16 min

    Description

    Bearing witness to the wretched living conditions of Harlem’s black population during the Great Depression, this short film was shot in the same year as the first race riot in that neighbourhood, now regarded as a distant ancestor of the “Black Lives Matter” movement.

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