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U.S. First Lady Patricia visits civilian hospitals and meets with dignitaries during her visit to Liberia, Ghana, and Ivory Coast
U.S. First Lady Patricia Nixon as a public figure and as a companion of President Richard Nixon. Patricia Nixon in Africa visits Liberia, Ghana, and Ivory Coast. Native African women dance as she disembarks from her plane. She is greeted by Liberian President William R. Tolbert Jr. Her motorcade drives on roads of Liberia. She visits people in a hospital. Liberian women accompany her during her visits to various places. They present her with a native turban. Patricia Nixon shakes hands with Ivory Coast President Félix Houphouët-Boigny and scales the ramp as she departs from Africa.
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.
President Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana meets President Kennedy during to the United States
Ghanaian President Kwame Nkrumah arrives at Washington National Airport for an official visit with U.S. President John F. Kennedy. President Kwame Nkrumah climbs down air stair from Military Air Transport Lockheed Constellation as an attendant holds an umbrella behind him. President Kennedy talks with the Ghanaian president at bottom of stairs while Clement Conger (wearing glasses), assistant chief of protocol, stands over his shoulder. At frame left, in dark hat, Chief of Protocol Angier Biddle Duke listens in. Photographers taking pictures of Kennedy and Kwame Nkrumah while the two leaders walk to the hangar of the airport. United States military and government officials meet Presidents Kennedy and Kwame Nkrumah inside hanger.
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.
Correspondents question and talk to Dr. Martin Luther King about Kennedy's assassination and its effects on American politics.
A Press Conference with civil rights leader Dr Martin Luther King, Jr. in the United States. Correspondents include UN correspondent for the Ghana News Agency George Enninful, Mr Parshuram of the Indian Express and William Workman. They question and talk to African American clergyman and activist Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. They discuss American politics, the Radicals and Democrats, the late President John F Kennedy, the American constitution and legislation.
African student eats lunch with friends at the University of North Carolina.
An African student from Ghana student reads a book in the University of North Carolina Wilson Library (200 South Rd. Wilson Library CB#3948 Chapel Hill, NC 27515). African student gets food from university cafeteria. Food spooned from steam table at cafeteria. Ghanaian student takes her lunch plate and desert from the cafeteria. African student chatting with her American friends over lunch at the university cafeteria. African student playing checkers with a teacher and another student.
