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United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower sends Airborne Federal troops to Little Rock Central High School to enforce desegregation policies in Arkansas

Crowd in front of Little Rock Central High School (2120 W Daisy L Gatson Bates Dr, Little Rock, AR 72202), protesting against desegregation called by a United States Court Order in 1957, during Civil Rights movement. 36th Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus at a press conference. National Guard in front of Little Rock Central High School. 101st Airborne Division Federal troops running. United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower speaks on enforcing Arkansas to respect court order and constitution. A U.S. Army Airborne Federal troop service man assists two African American students into a car. Airborne Federal troops assisting and guarding African-American students to get inside their car. Airborne Federal troops escort the car with African-American students on their way to school. 101st Airborne Division troops apprehend white teenagers and force others away at bayonet point. Airborne Federal troops escort an apprehended teenager. Students walk toward the school. An army truck passes by. Airborne Federal troops and federalized National Guard troops surrounding the Little Rock Central High School. Little Rock Central High School students crowd in front of the school as the troops apprehend them. President Dwight D. Eisenhower ends his speech with the words, “thus will be restored the image of America and all its parts as one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all”.

Date: 1957, September 24
Duration: 1 min 53 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675079009
Dramatization depicts: African-American students on their way to school and aftermath of Lamar High School Bus attack in South Carolina

African-American lawyer, Frank Jackson, talks to “Cliff”, one of the victims of the Lamar High School Bus Attack in 1970. African-American children lining up in school. Dramatization depicts a mob of angry white residents, one holding a stick in his hand as a club. White woman, wearing headscarf and shades, brandishes a frying pan. Dramatization shows Lamar High School with state troopers guarding the front of the school (216 N Darlington Ave, Lamar, SC 29069). Dramatization shows some of the mob being apprehended by state troopers. African-American students laugh inside the bus. Image of Robert Evander McNair, the Governor of South Carolina from 1965-1971. Attorney Jackson speaks to Cliff about Governor McNair’s dedication to protect African-American children’s rights to go to any school. Images of Governor McNair and Chief Justice Roger B. Taney. “ Only when the rights of the constitution are surely in the hands of poor men, as well as rich men, black, brown, red, and yellow men, as well as white men, can the constitution promise justice to share its equal place in law and order,” Attorney Frank Jackson says. Closing Credits.

Date: 1970, March
Duration: 2 min 50 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675079010
Urban scenes of busy streets and noisy construction work in the United States

Wide view of skyline of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Various scenes of activity in busy urban cities: A street crowded with pedestrians walking. View of pile driver in operation. Construction worker uses a jackhammer. Pedestrians on their way to work cross a street. A police traffic officer, wearing sunglasses, directs traffic. A wrecking ball hits a brick wall. Man pushes a clothes trolley as he crosses a street. Man operates a loader. A man buys a pie through an automat door. An African-American man eats a hotdog sandwich. A man, wearing glasses, finishes his drink and buys a newspaper. A front end loader scoops and unload rubble from demolished building. Men entering a building through a glass revolving door. Buses pass by near a train. San Francisco Cable Car climbing up the road. A wrecking ball hits a brick wall. Close up of a woman’s eye open. A woman’s vital signs being examined by a doctor to study her stress level. She has a cuff on her arm, possibly for measurement of blood pressure.

Date: 1971
Duration: 1 min 15 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675079011
Scenes of crowds from different parts of the world

A street crowded with pedestrians walking. A crowded beach full of umbrellas and beach-goers. African men and women in a crowded marketplace. African woman, with a basket sitting on top of her head, walking among the crowd. A crowd full of Indian men.

Date: 1971
Duration: 40 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675079016
A doctor performs a stress test on a female patient

A doctor adjusts a medical cuff strap on a woman’s right arm. Woman, wearing a Twiggy-style make-up, is being examined by doctor for her stress level. Doctor puts on another medical cuff strap on woman’s left arm. Doctor adjusts pump and monitors her stress level through a medical seismometer, showing a gentle blood flow. “That’s very, very good. Completely relaxed” the doctor said. A metronome and pocket watch are activated, the sounds from the objects change the woman’s stress level.

Date: 1971
Duration: 1 min 37 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675079017
Children playing in a playroom experiment on human behavior, responding to crowded space

An infant crying. A crying baby being held by mother. A baby cries, showing gums. A sleepy baby. A shirtless baby with arms outstretched. An inflatable Yogi Bear inside a messy playroom of a kindergarten school or daycare facility. Children noisily playing together inside the playroom. The number of children in the room is slowly increased, in an experiment. As the numbers increase, some children shift to the sidelines but others start becoming aggressive. Two little boys playing guns, with an upturned table as their “trenches”. Another boy drags a smaller boy roughly. Two aggressive boys fight as another boy snatches away the inflatable Yogi Bear. Scene changes to show Army soldiers firing rifles and machine guns on a battlefield. Camouflaged soldier firing machine gun. Scene shifts to show monkeys aggressively fighting.

Date: 1971
Duration: 1 min 44 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675079018