African American Football and Cleveland Buckeyes Footage, Cleveland, Ohio, ca. 1940s

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Josephus Hicks Collection of Church Records, Photographs, and Audio/Visual Materials (MS5366)

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PID: temp:290
Title: African American Football and Cleveland Buckeyes Footage, Cleveland, Ohio, ca. 1940s
Names: Hicks, Josephus, 1908-1998
Type Of Resource: moving image
Description: Series of short 16mm films contain scenes of an unidentified Cleveland vacation bible school class, unidentified African American football teams, color film of crowd scenes at a benefit football game between two historically black colleges, Wilberforce College and Kentucky State College, played at League Park during the late 1940s, and black and white action scenes from a Cleveland Buckeyes Negro League baseball game filmed in League Park, Cleveland, Ohio, during the 1940s.
Place created: Cleveland (Ohio)
Form: videorecording
Extent: 0:14:21
Conditions for Access and Use: Providing access to WRHS collection material does not constitute permission to publish or otherwise authorize use. Please note that this material may be protected by Copyright Law, Title 17, U.S. Code, and is not to be reproduced without written permission of the Western Reserve Historical Society. If you wish to publish or license collection materials, please contact the WRHS Library to inquire about the copyright status at 216-721-5722 x1509 or reference@wrhs.org.
Local Identifier: MS5366_28-366.01
Topic: African Americans--Ohio--Cleveland
African American athletes--Ohio--Cleveland
Cleveland Buckeyes (Baseball team)
Geographic: League Park (Cleveland, Ohio)