Previously Unseen Footage of Selma March Found in Amarillo

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A screenshot from Joe Jeoffroy's home video of the Selma march. Watch the full video at link.
Joe Jeoffroy

When representatives from the Texas Archive of the Moving Image (TAMI) went to collect home videos to digitize in Amarillo, they were excited to see some Texas family footage – maybe a barbecue or a birth or a child's first steps.

But they were even more excited when they stumbled upon a high-quality 16mm home movie of a pivotal point in the civil rights movement: the 1965 Selma, Ala. protest march.

Amarillo resident Joe Jeoffroy brought his father's 1960s home movie collection to TAMI's video roundup to get the films digitized, and he mentioned that one of the videos might contain his father's footage from Selma.

Jeoffroy brought in a lot of films, TAMI director Madeline Moya says, and he lugged them cannister by cannister up the stairs of an Amarillo library. The archivists were initially surprised by how high the quality of the film was.

Read more: http://kut.org/post/previously-unseen-footage-selma-march-found-amarillo

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1. K&R!

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[appalachiablue]

2. Thanks for this, great footage of an historic event. I was a child then & remember some of the

cars, clothes and my dad taking films. That was an amazing time of courage, unity and action for progressive change.