Riots, looting, and arson during an outbreak of urban racial violence in Detroit, Michigan. Entire blocks of homes on fire as seen at night. 36 are dead, over a thousand injured during period of unrest in the civil rights movement. A fire truck arrives at the scene. A house on fire. Firemen put out fire. A building engulfed in flames. Sniper groups keep watch outside shops to prevent looting. A looted and trashed shop. Storefront window glass is shattered. People walk on the trashed streets of Detroit. Firemen use jets of water to put out fire. President Lyndon B. Johnson denounces the riots and urges national law and order. “Pillage, looting, murder, and arson have nothing to do with civil rights” President Johnson said.
Shows a Greyhound bus traveling to Little Rock Arkansas, moving on streets in the city. Exterior view of the bus in motion as seen from another vehicle. German Press crew inside the bus, along with passengers. Point of view shots from inside the moving bus of Little Rock Arkansas area as seen through the bus window. Scenes of a gas station, used cars shop, government building. A German reporter exits from the bus in front of Central High School and mentions having been there 6 years ago during civil rights confrontations surrounding the "Little Rock Nine" in 1957, when National Guard troops were dispatched to maintain order.
German reporter speaks (in German) in front of the camera in Little Rock, Arkansas during Little Rock School Crisis, a watershed event dealing with desegregation in schools during the American Civil Rights movement. Arkansas National guard troops in background. Police arrest protesters. African American man being arrested. Large angry crowd gathers. Governor Orval Faubus greets National Guard officers. Man carried away by police. Shows crowds in favor of integration and crowds in favor of segregation (preventing the enrollment of the "Little Rock Nine" African American students), and police and Arkansas National Guard response (under Faubus) dealing with angry racist crowd and preventing integration of the schools despite the National Supreme Court ruling in Brown v. Board of Education.
Shows several newspaper headlines relating to racial segregation and desegregation in Little Rock Central High school in Little Rock, Arkansas and the civil rights movement. Elizabeth Eckford, a member of the Little Rock Nine (African American students) speaks about the changes in Little Rock Central High school since 1957. High school girls,including an African American girl, shooting in a firing range. African American students are among those seen in Central High School lunch room. Students, including an African American, play basketball.
Man says he is an "integrationist'" concerned more about the "Immorality" of segregation than he is about its "Illegality". He criticizes the Court Orders during Civil Rights movement that require the school board to allow only a token number of African American students into previously all white schools. He criticizes Southern politics. High school students leaving Little Rock Central High School at end of day. Many board school buses.
Minnijean Brown, African American former student of the Little Rock High school "Little Rock Nine" (during Civil Rights integration) giving interview to a reporter. She described how she was expelled from the school six months after she enrolled because she used the words "white trash" when responding to certain white students.
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