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13152_19900_southern_blacks1
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1969
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About the causes of the urban/housing crisis for black people. Shot of black woman in long dress and sun hat in front of broken-down country house. Pans across row of houses in bad condition, one with a white convertible; cuts to particularly shabby house. Small child, about three, opens door and stands in doorway as woman approaches. VO that Matt and Elizabeth Banks live here with their children and grandchildren, who all enter frame, walking toward house. CU Matt chopping wood; VO that he has education through fourth grade and is a construction worker who earns six dollars per week. CU Elizabeth boiling water on stove; VO that her father was a sharecropper and she has three years of education. CU hands filling bucket from spigot; boy around 12, James, carries water into house for cooking and washing. CU woman soaping down small girl, about three, in tin washtub; narration that there is no inside bathroom nor refrigerator. CU five young children, about three-six, in heap on bed splaying with each other; VO that not enough room for the sixteen children. CU man’s face.