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Achievements of African Americans in art, literature, music science, and medicine in the United States, in the late 1930s and 1940s.

A film about achievements of various African American men and women citizens in the United States. A statue of Booker T. Washington, founder of Tuskegee University in Alabama. View of African American scientist and inventor George Washington Carver, as an elderly man, working with another scientist in a laboratory. African American judge of New York city court. African American explorer Matthew Henson is seen looking at a globe (he was with Admiral Peary planting the American flag at the North Pole in 1909), and an unnamed African American surgeon at work in an operating room in New York. Next scene shows famous "father of the blues" musician and composer W.C. Handy (William Christoper Handy) smiling. Next is seen the financier and publisher of the Amsterdam News, Dr. C.B. Powell (Clilan Powell) greeting three uniformed African American women during a World War 2 war bond drive, and handing them a check (close up is shown) for 25,000 dollars, dated January 4, 1942, for the war bond drive. It is from the account of the Victory Mutual Life Insurance Company which Dr. Powell also owned. The check is signed by C.B Powell and Philip M.H. Savory (Dr. Savory was co-owner of the New York Amsterdam News). The next scene shows Elise Johnson McDougald, better known as Gertrude Elise Ayer, who was the first black full-time public school principal after the consolidation of New York City schools in 1898. She was also a noted woman writer during the Harlem Renaissance. She is seated in her office at her desk, likely in P.S. 119 in Harlem, since this is approximately year 1945 and she was at P.S 119 at that time. Her name plaque is visible on the front center of the desk. Principal Ayer smiles as a woman delivers a document to her. Next is seen the African American historian, author, and professor, Lawrence D. Reddick, serving in his role as the curator of the Schomburg Collection of African American Literature. In an art studio is seen the famous "Harlem Renaissance" African American sculptor and painter Charles Alston, at work on a sculpture. Next scene shows the famous African American contralto singer, Marian Anderson, receiving a bouquet of flowers and smiling after a performance. This transitions to a view of African American orchestra conductor Dean Dixon leading an orchestra in a performance of Beethoven's 9th Symphony. Several views of different sections of the orchestra performing under Dixon's direction. Clip closes with brief shots of campuses of several historically black colleges and universities in the United States like Howard University, Hampton, Tuskegee, Fisk, Prairie View. A football game underway in one of the colleges, and view on the field as quarterback throws a pass.

Date: 1945
Duration: 1 min 53 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675078146
Diversity of different people in New York City in the late 1930's. Chinese, Jewish, and African American areas of New York City.

Ethnically diverse people along streets in New York City. People of Chinese origin in Chinatown. Scene changes to a Jewish area with signs on market shops in Hebrew. A board at a shop reads "Strictly Kosher A Goldberg & Son Poultry Market". A crowded street. Children play. African American men talk in a largely African American area of New York City (likely Harlem). Children play games and skip rope. A boy writes with a chalk on a sidewalk.

Date: 1939
Duration: 1 min 37 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675035674
Film describing social character of United States in decade leading up to World War II

Film describes American society in the 1930s and 40s, including World War 2. . Begins showing a U.S. soldier napping at a train station in Chicago, Illinois. He thinks about his small town in Indiana. View of family walking in that town. Scene shifts to CIO (Congress of Industrial Organizations) President John L Lewis and Father Coughlin speaking. Harlem street scene. Crowd entering a subway station in New York City. Newspaper headlines posted in China Town New York. Storefronts of Greek and Italian merchants in downtown New York City. Signs seen include 'Grande Deposito Dolio Doliva,' and 'Anthony Coulapides, manufacturer of high grade cigarettes.' Hebrew writing and star of David seen on side of building. Buildings with Spanish language signs in New York. A parade float with Virgin Mary depiction. Wide shot of a vineyard. View of a water wheel turning at a mill. Boys skinny dipping. 1930's and 1940's era cars on deep snow covered roads of an American town. Homes in deep snow. People recline on a beach in Florida in winter while on the same day in New Hampshire people ski, some pulled by horses. People slip while walking across a street during a blizzard. A boy takes removes an apple from an icebox (early refrigerator). Dust storms in farm country of the Midwest during the dust bowl. Man races across a field toward a barn as a dust storm bears down on it. A farmer leads his horses out of a corral. A farm is destroyed by dust storms during the dust bowl. A family piles their remaining things on a farm truck and abandons their farm destroyed by the dust bowl. A poor family in a shack in the River Mississippi Valley area.

Date: 1939
Duration: 2 min 42 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675053398
Phone lines laid and mechanics lower giant cast iron pipe into Harlem River during the phone lines laying work in New York.

Mechanics during the final stages of work of world's largest conduit, in New York City, New York. Workers during the final stages of phone lines laying work on the shore of Harlem River. A giant cast iron pipe section is lowered by a crane on the river shore. Mechanics working with phone wires. A few men stand inside the pipe and discuss. Mechanics at work. The workers with the aid of an equipment lower the giant cast iron pipe into the Harlem River. A worker who went underwater comes up and is helped by another worker.

Date: 1930, October 9
Duration: 1 min 16 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675054982
Churches of Harlem and East Harlem in New York City.

A big building in Harlem, New York City. Rain and snow are falling. Bethel Gospel Pentecostal Assembly (2 E 120th St, New York, NY 10035) at Harlem, New York City. The New York Ephesus Seventh-day Adventist Church (101 W 123rd St, New York, NY 10027, United States). The Ebenezer Gospel Tabernacle Baptist Church (227 Malcolm X Blvd, New York, NY 10027, United States). The Religious Training Institute of America's board informs about the courses and timings at institute and information to contact Reverend P.G. Neil. A Schaefer beer billboard advertisement shows woman named Marva Revis, the Miss Beaux Arts winner of 1963, holding two 6-packs of beer and reads "... When you're having more than one". Views of Mount Olivet Church (201 Malcolm X Blvd, New York, NY 10027). Moore's Temple. Saint Mary's Catholic Church. A Jewish synagogue entrance is also seen, with Hebrew words at the entrance door.

Date: 1963
Duration: 2 min 6 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675035551
Views of shops, debutantes, police, and pedestrians on seventh avenue in Harlem, New York.

Aerial view of seventh avenue in Harlem, New York City. View of 'Franks Fish Market' and the 'Tonsorial Parlor Bobbing and Manicuring' shop at 517 Seventh avenue in Harlem. Aerial view shows street car and automobile traffic on Seventh Ave. African American couples stand and talk. African American man places takes pictures of another man using a camera mounted on tripod. Finely dressed African American youn women debutantes stand on the sidewalk. African American police man directs traffic.

Date: 1930
Duration: 2 min 47 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675068243
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