FILM AND AUDIO COLLECTIONS
Other African-American historical materials held by the State Archives include the films of
H. Lee Waters (1936-1942), some of which show African Americans and their communities in 12
North Carolina cities (Albemarle, Angier, Burlington, Chapel Hill, Concord, Durham,
Hillsborough, Lumberton, Monroe, Rockingham, Wadesboro, and Wake Forest). Various work prints
and negatives of the motion picture series produced by the North Carolina Film Board in the
mid-1960s under the title "Minority Report," which presented the reason behind racial protest
in North Carolina. Videotape copy of the Wilmington Ten at Central Prison during a news
conference held on 24 January 1978. Interview with Aunt Harriet Parker, born a slave, ca.
1858. "Bull City Blues," a study of the black business community
that existed in Durham from the 1920s to the 1940s.