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African American students gain knowledge of medicine, economics, chemistry at Prairie View College and Howard University in the United States (WW2)

African American colleges in the United States during World War II. College curricula adjusts to war needs as they prepare students for various military and civilian occupations including war material production at factories and manufacturing. A sign reads ' Prairie View College' (Present day Prairie View A&M University, 100 University Dr, Prairie View, TX 77446) in Prairie View, Waller County, Texas. College campus with students milling about. Students at an agriculture class learn to maintain farm equipment, animal husbandry. African American students work to make machines. They work on machines as they would help to meet manpower requirements. A building at the Howard University (2400 6th St NW, Washington, DC 20059) in Washington DC. Students in a mechanical design class learn to make designs of tanks, guns, and other war equipment. Students in a meteorological class study celestial navigation to guide airplanes. Students in a laboratory study the chemistry of a powder. At Howard University medical school students being taught the use the gravity of blood plasma in the battlefield by noted pioneer in blood plasma, Charles R. Drew. At the Howard University College of Liberal Arts, students learn the economics of war. An African American professor teaches a class on Industrial Accounting.

Date: 1943
Duration: 2 min 13 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675059204
African American students gain knowledge of agriculture, chemistry and radio operation at Hampton Institute in Virginia (WW2)

African American colleges in the United States during World War II. College curricula adjusts to war needs as they prepare students for various military and civilian occupations including war factory production and war manufacturing. A sign reads ' Hampton Institute visitors welcome' at Hampton Institute, presently known as Hampton University (100 E Queen St, Hampton, VA 23669), in Hampton, Virginia. Exteriors of buildings on the campus. An educator welcomes students from other countries for taking up a course at the institute. Students in a class take lessons in radio operation and construction. Students in a chemistry laboratory learn to develop new war material. Science students train to become laboratory technicians. An African American student conducts a test on bacteria in food caused by handling. Hampton Institute provides laboratory facilities for training of nurses. Students in a ground school class. The students work on machines as they weld metal pieces. A farm management course for girls by the Agriculture Department of the Institute. Girls operate a tractor as they plant corn in a field. Dairy farming lessons being conducted as girls watch a man as he milks a cow. Students conduct research on food and the importance of soybean over meat. Students broadcast programs related to research results, improved diet and raising better crop. They take up lessons in surveying and topography. Cadets of institute regiment march. A sign reads ' U.S. motor transport shops'. The students learn to work on motor parts. U.S. Army trucks being repaired at the shop. Engineering Department of the institute trains men for the U.S. Navy. The cadets march. A clock tower in the background.

Date: 1943
Duration: 4 min 13 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675059205
War industries lead to overcrowded cities and lead to problems of housing, education and congestion in Mobile, Alabama (WW2)

"War Town" shows how War industry leads to problems in Mobile, Alabama during World War II. A large number of war workers at a shipyard in Mobile as they go to work building ships for the war effort in World War 2. Cranes at the shipyard. Men work at the shipyard as they fit Allied torpedoes. The men weld and rivet ship parts. Men work in various other factory and manufacturing industries like paper, aluminum, gypsum, steel, and machine shops supporting need for war material. Many men move out walking through the gates of the "Alabama Dry Dock and Ship Building Company" in Pinto Island, Mobile, Alabama. Many people in war materiel industry leads to congestion on roads and traffic on streets of Mobile. Crowd of workers on foot leaving manufacturing areas. Crowd of workers tries to board a city bus. Woman bus driver puts full bus in gear and drives away. Bus, car, and pedestrian traffic in Mobile on street corner with W.T. Grant Company in background. Long queues outside liquor stores, restaurants, and pay windows. Overcrowded schools as children exit the Barton Academy (Barton Academy Foundation P. O. Box 571 Mobile, Alabama 36601-0571) and are seen playing on playgrounds. Men drink in a crowded bar and men and women dance in a makeshift tented dance hall. Various rides including a Ferris wheel at an amusement park.

Date: 1943
Duration: 3 min 25 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675059206
War industries lead to overcrowded cities and housing shortage in Mobile, Alabama; also pre-war poor housing in Mobile

Views of old Mobile Alabama downtown areas and homes during early 1940's. War industry leads to problems in Mobile, Alabama during World War II. Buildings in the city which now have been converted into homes for men war workers and women war production workers in the shipyards and factories making ships and airplanes, tanks, guns and other war material. A building converted into a dormitory for women. Men outside a building with a sign that reads ' Room board '. Girls in a room. A garage that has been converted into a boarding facility for women war workers. A tent area with a large number of migrant worker families living in it. Children play outside the tents. A woman washes clothes. A man cooks. A woman stands next to a cow and a man sits with his dog outside a shanty house. Next scene is pre-war view of dilapidated and run-down shacks housing African American families in Mobile. African American men, women, and children outside shanty houses in slum areas of Mobile. Scene changes to during war time again, with people at the office of the National Housing Agency. A sign reads ' Mobile housing board'. People at the office of the housing board.

Date: 1943
Duration: 3 min 36 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675059207
After solving problems related to housing, war production goes up at a shipyard in Mobile, Alabama in World War 2.

War industry leads to problems in Mobile, Alabama during World War II. A large number of people gathered outside the Personnel Office in Mobile. Congress provides 2 million dollars for housing of war workers (building tanks, guns, ships and other war material in factories, manufacturing plants, and shipyards for the war effort). Shows racially segregated housing and facilities for African American workers versus white workers. Views of a cleared slum area where African Americans had been living been living in poor quality homes before the war. Shortage of housing is addressed with new housing for African American war workers, "Certified Colored War Workers". African American children play and eat at a nursery. Dormitory units for single war workers equipped with gymnasium and other basic facilities. Government owned trailers built by the Maritime Commission near a ship yard. The problem of providing a day nursery is undertaken. Modern permanent homes for war workers who can afford them. After meeting the problems like housing and sanitation, production goes up at the ship yard. A new ship being launched at the ship yard. A sign on the ship reads ' Cedar Mills'.

Date: 1943
Duration: 3 min 30 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675059208
U.S. Coast Guards march with sentry dogs along the Atlantic Coast in United States.

United States Coast Guards with sentry dogs in the United States. The coast guards in white uniforms as they march with the sentry dogs. They march on the Atlantic coast. Coast guard horsemen patrol the coast.

Date: 1943
Duration: 51 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675059286