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["Acro Tower, Part #1"]

Description: Video provided by The Black Academy of Arts and Letters showing DVD footage shot on a handheld camera of the outside of Arco Tower (now known as Energy Plaza Tower) in downtown Dallas followed by an evening formal event including live music and displayed artwork. The event took place inside of the building and the shots show a large crowd of individuals spread throughout the lobby dressed in evening attire. Tape 1 of 2.
Date: 1987
Duration: 22 minutes 31 seconds
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Location: 32.783193 -96.799110
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["Acro Tower, Part #2" handheld camera footage from the Symphony in Black event]

Description: Video provided by The Black Academy of Arts and Letters showing DVD footage shot on a handheld camera of the outside of Arco Tower (now known as Energy Plaza Tower) in downtown Dallas followed by an evening formal event including live music and displayed artwork. The event took place inside of the building and the shots show a large crowd of individuals spread throughout the lobby dressed in evening attire.
Date: 1987
Duration: 42 minutes 16 seconds
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Location: 32.783179 -96.799145
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["Acro Tower, Part #2" handheld camera footage of evening formal event]

Description: Video provided by The Black Academy of Arts and Letters showing DVD footage shot on a handheld camera of the outside of Arco Tower (now known as Energy Plaza Tower) in downtown Dallas followed by an evening formal event including live music and displayed artwork. The event took place inside of the building and the shots show a large crowd of individuals spread throughout the lobby dressed in evening attire. The camera shifts and shakes often falling quickly to the sides and showing blurred clos… more
Date: 1987
Duration: 22 minutes 54 seconds
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Location: 32.783179 -96.799145
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["Black Gold Hits" television program featuring Lou Rawls and other celebrities]

Description: Video footage from The Black Academy of Arts and Letters recorded during an airing of Lou Rawls "Black Gold Hits" television program featuring celebrities and jazz musicians. The footage was aired in 1987/1988. The quality of the tape suffers due to slanted bars that diminish the clarity of the footage.
Date: 1987
Duration: 1 hour 27 minutes 08 seconds
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
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[Black Music and the Civil Rights concert 1987]

Description: Audio tape from The Black Academy of Arts and Letters recorded during their Black Music and the Civil Rights concert held in January of 1987. The tape covers the concert featuring a very well know choir director who at the recording of the tape had just turned 90. Other individuals give speeches between choral pieces.
Date: January 1987
Duration: 1 hour 29 minutes 58 seconds
Item Type: Refine your search to only Sound
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[Closing of the "My Way" tribute to Martin Luther King Jr.]

Description: Video recording from The Black Academy of Arts and Letters recorded during "My Way" a musical tribute to the late Martin Luther King Jr. featuring gospel singer Eartha Kitt and a 100-voice choir on December 5th, 1987. The footage shows guests the leaving the performance hall crowded in the hotel lobby followed by footage of the exterior of the building with guests crossing the street.
Date: 1987
Duration: 5 minutes 55 seconds
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Location: 32.783146 -96.799029
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[Concert with Eartha Kitt and a large gospel choir]

Description: Video recording from The Black Academy of Arts and Letters Records. The video footage for the first few minutes is of a telephone operator helpline, where an individual is reporting a parked car. "My Way" performed by Eartha Kitt starts at the three (3) minute mark. A musical tribute to Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Date: 1987
Duration: 26 minutes 09 seconds
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Location: 32.780371 -96.765915
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