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Nine black students enter Central High School, Little Rock Arkansas, following desegregation, under protection of the U.S. Army

View of Central High School, Little Rock Arkansas. Former student, Jefferson Thomas, one of the nine African American students who integrated the school in 1957, is revisiting the school. View of integrated student track and field team practicing.View of the front of the school. Flashback scenes of the "Little Rock Nine," black students trying to enter Central High School, Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1957. Police officer keeping back jeering local students. Racial fighting breaks out among people watching the event, and police try to maintain order. African American students unable to enter school while white students enter and police stand by despite federal school integration orders. Scene returns to 1964 briefly and then back to September 27, 1957, when on orders from President Eisenhower, a company of U.S. Army soldiers marches up takes up positions at the school. They set up barricades, maintain order, and provide armed escort for the nine black students entering school. The nine students enter army station wagons and drive to school accompanied by soldiers in an army jeep.Views of people mingling around the school as U.S. Army soldiers stand amongst them.

Location: Little Rock Arkansas United States USA
Date: 1957
Duration: 5 min 11 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675024010
African American tennis star, Althea Gibson, wins Wimbledon, defeating Darlene Hard, 6-3, 6-2, on July 6, 1957.

Tennis star Althea Gibson, from New York City, USA, is seen in the final seconds of her contest with Darlene Hard, in the Ladies' singles final at Wimbledon, England,on July 6, 1957. She is the first African American to win at Wimbleton. After shaking hands with Hard, she is seen receiving the ladies' Wimbledon tropy "Rosewater Dish," from Queen Elizabeth, II. Althea Gibson displays the sterling silver salver, as she poses next to Darlene Hard.

Location: United Kingdom
Date: 1957, July 6
Duration: 30 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675069555
Federal government reimburses patrons of defunct Fon Du Lac Bank by cashing their accounts in full under FDIC guarantee

The U.S. Federal government in its first reimbursement action through the FDIC (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation) created through the Banking Act of 1933, during the Great Depression. Government reimbursing the patrons of the failed Fon Du Lac Bank in East Peoria, Illinois. Crowd gathered outside Fon Du Lac Bank in East Peoria, Illinois, waiting to get in. Man shaking hands with Mrs. Lydia Lobsiger, the first customer to receive her money back through the FDIC program. Banking customers receive one hundred percent of their deposit amounts. Women and men approach the counter and bank teller counts dollar bills to pay citizens. A young boy wearing a cap stands by the window. Bank teller examines his account book and then lays out coins for the boy. The child carefully slides the money off the counter, counting it as he goes.

Location: East Peoria Illinois USA
Date: 1934, July 4
Duration: 1 min 1 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675022427
NCAA Track and Field events in Austin Texas, June, 1957

Gregory C. (Greg) Bell, a sophomore at Indiana University, is seen making his record-setting long jump of 26' 7", to win the national collegiate title on June 14, 1957, in Austin Texas. Bell sitting on the ground after his jump. Sequence shifts to the track where Don Bowden, of California, is running well ahead of favored Ron Delany, of Villanova, to win the 800 meter run in 1 minute and 47.2 seconds. (Note: Delany won the 1500 meter run in 4 minutes 6 and a half minutes.) The next day, on June 15, 1957, Bob Gutowski, of Occidental College,California, is seen breaking the World record in the pole vault at a height of 15 feet 9 3/4 inches. He poses momentarily afterwards.

Location: Austin Texas USA
Date: 1957, June 14
Duration: 37 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675069554
A Universal Newsreel cameraman dies while covering the news of a fire in a grain elevator in Chicago, Illinois.

Fire in a grain elevator in Chicago, Illinois. Firemen work to control the fire. Smoke rises from the fire. A Universal Newsreel cameraman dies while covering the news. Ruins of a granary.

Location: Chicago Illinois USA
Date: 1957, January 24
Duration: 1 min 3 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675070380
Manassas wins Arlington Handicap horse race at Arlington Park racetrack in Chicago, Illinois.

Arlington Handicap horse race at Arlington Park racetrack in Chicago, Illinois. The spectators seated in a stand. The race starts. Horses run on tracks. The spectators cheer. Manassas wins the race.

Location: Chicago Illinois USA
Date: 1957, July 29
Duration: 54 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675069542
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