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Start Over Collection Richmond Police Department Surveillance collection Date range 1971
Virginia Commonwealth University, Cabell Library

Richmond Police Department Surveillance collection

169 Items 156 films and 13 audio reels 9.4 Linear Feet 12 cd boxes, 2 flat file boxes, and 3 document cases.

The collection contains film and audio reels pertaining to civil rights and other activities in the 1960s and 1970s in Richmond, Virginia, and surrounding states. These include the H. Rap Brown trial, Lincoln Memorial Peace March, the Martin Luther King memorial at the Virginia State Capitol, Anti-Bussing protests, the Poor People's Campaign, student protest marches, surveillance of the Black Panthers, the Ku Klux Klan (KKK), the National Socialist White People's Party, and illegal abortion providers. There are also reels of police training videos, retirement parties, and the 1969 flood. In addition to the film and audio reels, there are also photographs of many of the events recorded on film reels, as well as Personal Information Cards.

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March Against Oppression and Commemoration of Dr. Martin Luther King's Death Reel #1 1 Items

TITLE ON REEL:3 April '71, March Against Opression [sic], Commeration [sic] of M.L. King's Death, scenes along US #1.; RUNTIME: 00:04:15; DESCRIPTION: This reel contains footage of approximately 100 individuals marching along the roadside of U.S. Route 1 in Virginia (somewhere between Petersburg and Richmond, likely closer to Richmond) on April 3, 1971. They were on their way to an event in commemoration of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and against war, racism, and repression in Richmond. The crowd in this part of the march appears to grow as the footage follows them.

  1. Series 2: Film recordings

March Against Oppression and Commemoration of Dr. Martin Luther King's Death Reel #2 1 Items

TITLE ON REEL:Victory March; RUNTIME: 00:03:36; DESCRIPTION: This reel contains footage of individuals marching in Richmond, primarily on Franklin Street, on April 3, 1971. They were on their way to an event in commemoration of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and against war, racism, and repression at the Virginia State Capitol. The final part of the reel is footage of the crowd on the capitol grounds.

  1. Series 2: Film recordings

March Against Oppression and Commemoration of Dr. Martin Luther King's Death Reel #3 1 Items

TITLE ON REEL:3 April 71, March Against Opression [sic], Commeration [sic] of Martin L. King's Death, State Capitol & March from Monroe Park, Police I.D.; RUNTIME: 00:04:35; DESCRIPTION: This reel contains footage of individuals marching in Richmond, primarily on Franklin Street, on April 3, 1971. They were on their way to an event in commemoration of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and against war, racism, and repression at the Virginia State Capitol. The final part of the reel is footage of the crowd on the capitol grounds.

  1. Series 2: Film recordings

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