All-American news. 1944-09, no. 2

All-American news were the first newsreels produced for a black audience. Made in the 1940s and 1950s, they were originally intended to encourage black Americans to participate in, and support the war effort, and to reflect an African-American perspective on world and national events. Highlights of this issue include segments about soldiers in the 92nd Infantry Division building a landing field in Italy, and a clothing drive for victims of a 1944 hurricane in Jamaica. The group holding the drive is not named, but Rev. Ethelred Brown, "secretary of this philanthropic organization" is pictured. Brown was the secretary of the Jamaica Progressive League for 20 years, beginning in 1936.
Copyright notice on film: All-American News Incorporated ; 1944.
Date in title and possible date of release are based on the date of relief efforts for the August hurricane which struck Jamaica. Date taken from New Amsterdam News, September 16, 1944.
Appearing: Ethelred Brown.
Some footage provided by the United States Army Signal Corps.
Incomplete: end title, some footage and parts of picture lacking.
Cannot confirm that newsreel stories are in the same order, or on the same reel as when originally released.
Sources used: Moon, S., Reel Black talk, p. 3-6; Sampson, H., Blacks in black and white, p. 437-440; Wheeler, R. "News for all Americans" in American visions, Feb.-Mar. 1993, p. 40, viewed online, June 22, 2018 via Academic OneFile; New York Amsterdam News, September 16, 1944, p. 7A viewed online August 2, 2018 on ProQuest Historical Newspapers; New York Amsterdam News October 21, 1944, p. 7A viewed online August 2, 2018 on ProQuest Historical Newspapers; "Rev Ethelred Brown: He Mixed Religion With Politics" viewed online, August 2, 2018, in the Jamaica gleaner, September 4, 2011.