Refine Your Search

Boligee Alabama USA 1940 stock footage and images

- Showing 7 to 12 of 26073 results
African American boys ride toy carts in Calhoun, Alabama.

Life of African American towns people in Calhoun, Alabama. Four African American boys pose in Calhoun, Alabama. One of them sits on a toy cart. Two African American boys sit on toy carts pushed by three others. The boys run, pushing the carts along the village road.

Location: Calhoun Alabama USA
Date: 1940
Duration: 31 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675050038
Facilities available in National Youth Administration Medical Center in Alabama.

National Youth Administration (NYA) Medical Center in Alabama. NYA girls arranging records. A dentist's assistant arranges tools. A doctor examines a child as an assistant helps him. A nurse arrives and clothes the child. She leaves with the child.

Location: Birmingham Alabama USA
Date: 1940
Duration: 1 min 13 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675024043
Education at the Calhoun School for African American students in Lowndes County, Alabama.

From a film titled "The Calhoun School - The Way to a Better Future". Scenes of poverty and lack of education for African American farm residents of the "Big Swamp Section" of Lowndes County, followed by introduction to the Calhoun Colored School which aims to improve circumstances for African American children in the area. Open dry farmland. View of a simple shack. A Black child sleeps on a wooden bench. Some African American children prepare some food in a container. Some African American women stand near a hut. An African American child sits beside a hut. An African American woman works near a container. A Black man plows the field using ox-driven plow. An African American woman works in the farm. A hut in background. An African American man and children walking. View of a simple one room schoolhouse. Some African American children play beside a tree. Young African American children sit with teachers and watch the older children beside the rural school. They all reenter the schoolhouse together. Picture of Miss Charlotte Thorn who founded the Calhoun Colored School (CR 33, Calhoun, Alabama). View of the school grounds and buildings and students moving about. View of the school principal, Dr. Jerome F Kidder, seated in his office. African American girls wearing white uniform gather for a morning flag raising ceremony. African American girls and boys march and then gather for the flag ceremony.

Location: Lowndes County Alabama USA
Date: 1940
Duration: 5 min 37 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675057561
Classroom scenes from the Calhoun Colored School in Lowndes County, Alabama.

African American students study at the Calhoun School in Lowndes Country, Alabama. Hats of students hang from hooks on a school room wall. A wood burning stove in the school house. Black students study in the class room. A student talks to the teacher. A student reads a book. African American teacher explains the map of the South America on a black board. A teacher teaches geometry on the blackboard. African American students sit in the library. Students read different books. A teacher picks a book from the book shelf.

Location: Lowndes County Alabama USA
Date: 1940
Duration: 1 min 49 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675057562
Health instruction and dormitory life for African American students at the Calhoun Colored School in Lowndes County, Alabama

African American students are given health instruction at the Calhoun Colored School in Lowndes County, Alabama, in the United States. A nurse shows the student malaria breeding areas. Young African American children students doing physical training exercises and stretches.. Scenes from the boarding dormitory: A girl combing hair of another girl. A group of female students play a game of checkers. A female student reads a book while other reads newspaper. A girl sits and writes something. Three students sit near a console phonograph record player as one student plays a record. Young couples dancing at a school dance. On the musician's bandstand are the words, "Shannons Pioneer Club Orchestra".

Location: Lowndes County Alabama USA
Date: 1940
Duration: 2 min 13 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675057563
Students at the Calhoun Colored School learn skills for farming in Lowndes County, Alabama.

A muddy road in Lowndes County, Alabama. Two African American men on a tractor doing road grading, part of a program with Calhoun Colored School Students working to improve communications between farmers and routes of transit to market their goods. Two men outside a farm house. A man plows field using plow driven by horse. A man plows a field using plows driven by two horses. "Captain" Roper, an early graduate of the Calhoun School, stands along with a farmer and advises on improved farm methods. A field getting plowed.

Location: Lowndes County Alabama USA
Date: 1940
Duration: 2 min 2 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675057564
<< Previous | Page: 1 ... 2 3 4 ... 4346 | Next >>