# The Negro Soldier

FDR Presidential Library Video 31 The Negro Soldier Frank Capra and the War Activities Committee. Public Domain Footage Total propaganda film narrated by using a sermon in a black church, interspersing the talk with footage. Shows the bravery of black soldiers throughout all of America's wars. Never mentions slavery, jim crow, segregation, racism, just how important it is to fight for the land of the free and defend the US against racism. All the units shown are segregated.

- Kind: Educational
- Year: 1943
- By: FDR Presidential Library
- Genres: Education
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/gov.fdr.31)
- Licence or status: [CC0 1.0](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) (as the archive states it)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

Not offered: its uploader marks it public domain, and the US Copyright Office's records do not settle that it is (a record that may be another film's, a film first published abroad, a year when renewal was automatic, or a country they do not name). Unclear is not offered.