Summary

The War Department presents The Negro Soldier - AMAZING!!!! Part 1 The Negro Soldier - 1944 - Part of Why We Fight series Office of War Information through the War Activities Committee of the Motion Picture Industry The Negro Soldier, part of the Why We Fight series WWII Anti Nazi propaganda film featuring historical timeline of Blacks fighting in American battles w historical reenactments, engravings, paintings & newsreel footage The Negro Soldier was a 1944 propaganda film produced by the United States War Department encouraging African-Americans to join the armed forces and otherwise help the war effort People enter Black church (good shots of Blacks entering church from different angles) US soldier leads choir in singing hymns Minister delivers sermon from pulpit The pastor decides to devote his sermon on the Negro and the war He begins with a historical introduction, talking about African-American contributions to American military endeavors MS military service flag American boxer Joe Louis knocks down German boxer Max Schmeling during fight Parishioners in pews Paratrooper Schmeling jumps during military training Louis climbs fence & monkey bars during field exercises Preacher discusses how stakes in war are even more important American flag superimposed over American Constitution Nazi flag superimposed over Hitler's book Mein Kampf Minister reads racist passage from Mein Kampf (Blacks described as half ape) MS congregation Historical reenactments, paintings & engravings show timeline of Black heroes who fought in major US battles & contributed to building US Plaque at Granary Burial Ground Engraving of Crispus Attucks at Boston Massacre (1770) Monument for Attucks & Samuel Maverick at Concorde Bridge Peter Sale's gun & painting of Sale in battle Prince Whipple in Emmanuel Leutze's Washington Crossing the Delaware 1776 painting Reenactment of Washington's troops crossing Valley Forge 1778 Liberty Bell ringing superimposed over American flag Men c hopping trees in forest CUs faces & hands of Blacks & Caucasians laying bricks for building Farmer's field Ship firing cannon Tyler Thompson at Lake Erie Reenactment of Thomas Wilson at Battle of New Orleans Shipbuilding VS Abraham Lincoln Memorial (Washington, DC) Black homesteader couple driving covered wagon Workers building railway track LA train Reenactment 9th & 10th, 24th & 25th Infantry Cavalry at Santiago, Cuba for Spanish-American War Blue collar railroad worker black men, one saying goodbye to friends, telling them he's going to be a soldier in the Spanish-American War