Every year, the United States Library of Congress adds 25 new movies to its National Film Registry.
This year, the registry has added four films from the 1920s and ‘30s that give a rare view of African Americans at the time.
Among the films is a cinematic peak into a Black community of the early 1900s, a three-minute clip of the Ringling Brothers Circus in a prosperous African American neighborhood in Indianapolis.
Also added was a 1926 film, “Flying Ace,” that was created by a Black film studio believed to have inspired the Tuskegee Airmen.
Historians say it’s a miracle that some of these films survived, given the fact that so few prints were made.
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