$60K for vintage films depicting the life of blacks in Oklahoma in the 1920s

A historian has netted $60,000 from the auction of vintage films depicting the life of blacks in Oklahoma in the 1920s.

Currie Ballard, the assistant secretary to the state Senate, first sold a copy of the films to the Oklahoma Historical Society, then had his collection of 29 film reels auctioned at the Swann Auction Galleries in New York.

Ballard says the buyer wanted to remain anonymous but that the films were purchased by an Ivy League university.