Works Progress Administration in United States during the Great Depression. First batch of 15,000 workers who were employed under the Works Progress Administration at a construction site in Birmingham, Alabama. Workers line up as their names are entered in a roll register. A worker wears a pair of tattered shoes. A man drinks from a mug. Workers construct houses. Houses after their completion. From a 25 year retrospective in a newsreel dated July 14, 1960.
A football game in Birmingham, Alabama. A large crowd of spectators seated in the stands. The football game between the Auburn Tigers and the Miami Hurricanes start. Spectators cheer for the players. The Auburn Tigers win the game against the Miami Hurricanes by a score of 14-13
Welcome of the Holiday Pageant in Birmingham, Alabama. Men march on the streets. They hold flags in hands. Decorated floats move on the streets.
Unbeaten Auburn football team is held to a tie in contest with South Carolina at Legion Field, Birmingham, Alabama, on December 3, 1932. Auburn with overll record of 9 wins and no losses faces South Carolina with overall record of 5 wins, 4 losses, and one tie. The stands at Legion Field are full of spectators. Highlights are shown as the game see-saws back and forth across the gridiron. Scoreboard is not shown. But the game ends in a 20-20 tie. (Note; South Carolina actually beat Auburn 16-14 in 1933.)
James Baldwin speaks in United States. Scenes of strife and struggle during civil rights movement. Policemen beat a African American man. Doctor Kenneth Clark, Professor of Psychology at the City College of New York; Director of Fallen Youth Opportunities Unlimited and Research Director, North Pride Center for Interpretation, sits in a chair during an interview. He speaks on the position of African Americans and America's Promise. Other scenes: Martin Luther King Jr. addresses a small gathering of African Americans. They are standing at the scene of a bombed out or destroyed church. He speaks about what happened there alluding that they know the truth of the racist hate crime. He speaks about remaining strong in striving for freedom for African American citizens. People around him sing and clap. Martin Luther King Jr. looks into a bible. Ebenezer Baptist Church and its interiors are seen, where Martin Luther King Jr. preaches. Exterior view of a Woolworths store where African Americans in protest sit at a segregated lunch counter at Woolworth store and wait to be served, in a non-violent demonstration. People pass through doors. Men moving on a road are stopped by a policeman. He stands with other policemen. The civil rights demonstrators stop and pray together. They are then directed to a waiting police paddy wagon van for arrest. Policeman hits a African American man. African Americans are put in police paddy wagons. Policemen detain African American demonstrators during a march and use dogs in rounding up demonstrators. Fire truck arrives during a protest and firemen spray fire hoses at African American demonstrators on May 7, 1963 in Birmingham Alabama during the Birmingham Campaign or movement. High powered fire hoses spraying water at demonstrators. Police chasing and detaining demonstrators in a crowd during a black civil rights demonstration. Martin Luther King Jr. leaving a courthouse, his wife by his side. He walks down the steps where a reporter asks him, "Dr. King how long do you expect to stay in jail". King replies "I'm under orders to keep walking."
President John F Kennedy delivers Civil Rights Integration speech at White House, Washington DC, sometimes called his Civil Rights Address. President talks about events in Birmingham Alabama and urges the nation not to indulge in any kind of discrimination towards African Americans of the country. He notes that "the fires of frustration and discord are burning in every city...."
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