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African American girls play and style hair of one another at the Calhoun School in Alabama, United States.

African American girls at the Calhoun School in Alabama, United States. Girls play checkers. A student at a desk as she writes on a paper. A girl gives a hairdo (styles hair) for another girl at the school.

Date: 1940
Duration: 32 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675059223
African American men and women dance as a band plays at the Calhoun School in Alabama, United States.

African American men and women at the Calhoun School in Alabama, United States. African American members of the Shanngn's Pioneers jazz band play musical instruments during a school dance. African American men and women students dance on the dance floor and enjoy the band music.

Date: 1940
Duration: 1 min 6 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675059225
African American children's orchestra plays at the Calhoun School in Alabama, United States.

African American children at the Calhoun School in Alabama, United States. A children's orchestra plays as a young boy conducts the band. The children play various musical instruments like drums. The boy conducts the orchestra.

Date: 1940
Duration: 1 min 13 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675059226
USS Alabama is hit by bombs during demonstration by Army Air Service DH4 bomber airplanes in the Chesapeake Bay.

Bombing demonstration by U.S. Army Air Service DH4 aircraft under command of Brigadier General Billy Mitchell. The target is Battleship USS Alabama, in September, 1921 in the Chesapeake Bay, United States. Army flier is seen checking security of a bomb under wing of aircraft. USS Alabama underway in the Chesapeake Bay. Aerial views from United States Army Air Service planes in flight over the battleship. USS Alabama is hit by a bomb. Later it is hit by a phosphorus poison gas bomb. Finally it is hit by 2000 pound bombs. The USS Alabama rolls over halfway, in shallow waters.

Date: 1921, September
Duration: 1 min 11 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675044883
Scenes of New York City buildings and of the New York World's Fair in 1940

From the Ford Motor Company produced film, "Scenes From the World of Tomorrow" documenting the 1939-1940 World's Fair in New York City. View of buildings of the New York World's Fair of 1940. The Brooklyn Bridge. Aerial view of Manhattan Island, New York City. Skyscrapers of New York City including the Chrysler Building and the Empire State Building. New York Harbor and ships in the harbor. View of the buildings of the New York Worlds Fair in the distance in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, as seen from high in a skyscraper of New York City. The Fair's Trylon and Perisphere stand out. People walk along the sides of fountains and waterways at the fair. Crowds milling about, bands marching, dancers performing. Flags of many nations flying on the flag poles. Celebration of the 150th anniversary of George Washington, as the first President of the United States and a statue of George Washington. A bus moves on the street. Fountains and a small bridge near a waterway. Pavilions of nations of England, Japan, and Italy. The USA building and some of the buildings of U.S. States including Maine and Florida. Fountains and waterways of the fair. Woman and two girls eat ice cream cones. A Raymond Loewy - designed S1 experimental streamlined locomotive created for the Pennsylvania Railroad. Pavilions of American Telephone & Telegraph and of United States Steel Corporation, also of Westinghouse, Goodrich, Chrysler, and General Motors.

Date: 1940
Duration: 4 min 9 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675028517
Johnson addresses Congress on voting rights; Martin Luther King Jr and activists march for civil rights in Selma, Alabama.

United States President Lyndon Baines Johnson seeks end to civil strife in the United States. Exterior view of the dome of the U.S. Capitol Building illuminated at night. Inside view as the President addresses Joint Session of Congress to push a voting rights bill (Voting Rights Act) to end discrimination in voting. Dignitaries and members of the Congress are seated. Next scenes are all from civil rights marches in the U.S. during March, following the March 11 beating death of minister James Reeb. Protestors march on streets all over the country in solidarity with the Selma, Alabama marchers. They carry banners. A banner reads 'We March With Selma'. Another banner says "We Shall Overcome". The people march on streets and carry banners in a Harlem, New York demonstration. The demonstrators gather in large number to pay tribute to Unitarian minister James J. Reeb. Brown Chapel African Methodist Episcopal (A.M.E.) Church (410 Martin Luther King St, Selma, AL 36703, United States) in Selma, Alabama which was a headquarters for the drive for the right to vote. A sign reads 'Brown Chapel'. The people gathered during the campaign. Leader of African American civil rights movement, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., with other officials. View of protestors in the second Civil Rights march from Selma to Montgomery on March 9, 1965. Martin Luther King Jr marches with the people for Civil Rights. Men take pictures. Martin Luther King with white ministers, African American and white citizens, and civil right workers marching on the street. The police stand blocking the road at the end of the Edmund Pettus Bridge. The marchers stand. Martin Luther King Jr. speaks to a policeman. The marchers kneel on the street and pray. Men take pictures. Martin Luther King Jr with other officials speaks to the marchers. After praying the marchers turn around and go back to Selma. They cross the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama.

Date: 1965, March 15
Duration: 3 min 43 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675069346