Home Movie: Lloyd Royal Collection: 011062

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Content warning: This film includes images of African American workers filmed from a white gaze, likely without their full consent.

A portrait of civic and commercial life the racially segregated small town of Hazlehurst, Mississippi, in the Jim Crow South of the United States. Features white youth in a schoolyard, white teenagers at a soda fountain; workers and patrons of a grocery store, a bank, a shoe hospital, a laundry, a funeral home, and more. The Black laundry workers are shown leaving the workplace separately from the white workers.

Filmed by Lloyd Royal, who owned and operated movie theaters in Mississippi.

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Internet Archive, in Prelinger Archives

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Credit

Lloyd Royal

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