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Civil rights demonstrations, racial tensions, and school integration in America in the early 1960's.

African American men and women carry signs and demonstrate for equal rights outside a restaurant or store in the United States for civil rights. Jesse Jackson leads crowd in his "I am somebody" chant. A sign in the gathered crowd reads, "Jesse Jackson Black Jesus". Views of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom on August 28 1963, highlighting civil rights issues for African Americans. Next scene is during the Selma to Montgomery march and shows Martin Luther King Jr. and his wife Coretta Scott King marching next to James Michael Letherer (Jim Letherer) of Saginaw, Michigan. (Letherer, who lost his right leg to cancer as a child, did the entire march on crutches.) Next scene shows African American people as they riot and flip over a car during racial riots. A building burns during race riots. Ernest Green talks to others at the headquarters for the Apprenticeship Program of the Workers Defense League, funded by the A. Philip Randolph Education Fund. A white man enters a voting booth. White and black people at a polling place. Narrator says that African American voting is increasing in America. Images of of Mayor Carl Stokes,a black political leader in Cleveland, Ohio; Jesse Jackson, Preacher; and Ernest Green (Ernie Green), Youth Organizer and Executive. View of grounds of the Washington and Lincoln Memorial teeming with protestors against inequality and segregation during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in 1963. View of United States Supreme Court building and point of view shot as camera approaches interior chamber of the Supreme Court. Black students outside a school. Exterior view of John Philip Sousa Junior High School in Washington DC shows integrated student body. View of white students demonstrating against integration at Little Rock. Interior view of integrated elementary school classroom with both white and black children. Curb side sit-in demonstration in a southern city. Picketing demonstrators outside the S&W Cafeteria hold signs that read, "Christian Morality Condemns Segregation" and "All Men are Created Equal." African American demonstrators at the lunch counter of the S&W Cafeteria are served a meal by the waitress, along side white patrons at the lunch counter. View of a swimming pool that has been closed by a municipality rather than allow integration.

Date: 1963
Duration: 4 min 22 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675029511
Protests against admission of black students at Little Rock Central High School, Arkansas; later work and teaching by Ernest Green.

Shows crowd gathered outside the Little Rock Central High School in Arkansas, in 1957, protesting admission of African American students. Shows "Little Rock Nine" in station wagon being escorted to the school by armed Federal troops. Ernie Green reflects on the experience of the troop escort. Views of Ernest Greene at Michigan State University in a library and Professor Greene teaching in a classroom. Green is seen on a building site working to encourage black apprenticeships in the building trades. Ernest Green seated in an office.

Date: 1969
Duration: 2 min 13 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675029513
"March on Washington." Americans gather at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC. and sing "'We shall Overcome"

Scenes from the "March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom". Mix of mostly African Americans and white American gather at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC. Participants sing and chant songs as they march. Led by folk singer, Joan Baez, they unite and sing in chorus the civil rights anthem: "We Shall Overcome" Statue of Abraham Lincoln at the memorial.

Date: 1963, August 28
Duration: 2 min 20 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675029514
Scenes and sounds from the Civil Rights "March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom", in Washington DC.

Thousands of people gathering on the National Mall for the March On Washington For Jobs and Freedom. The Washington Monument. Convoy of buses. "Peter, Paul, and Mary", a musical group, sings "The Answer is Blowing in the Wind" and "If I had a Hammer" in an open space outside the White house in Washington DC. African Americans gather in large numbers and march with banners in hands. A Drum and Bugle Corps plays. Black and White Americans unite to promote Civil Rights.

Date: 1963, August 28
Duration: 4 min 42 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675029515
The March on Washington. Black American leader Fred Shuttlesworth addresses the masses at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington.

Scenes from The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Black and White Americans gather in large numbers at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC to promote Civil Rights. African American civil rights leader, Reverend Fred L. Shuttlesworth delivers speech to the crowd gathered. Folk Singer, Joan Baez, sings her song "All My Trails" and plays guitar.

Date: 1963, August 28
Duration: 1 min 21 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675029517
Burt Lancaster speaks during the Civil Rights "March on Washington"

Actor and activist Ossie Davis introduces fellow actor Burt Lancaster who makes a speech at the Lincoln Memorial (2 Lincoln Memorial Cir NW, Washington, DC 20002) in Washington DC during the civil rights "March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom". African American and white citizens gather in large numbers at the event. Statue of Abraham Lincoln in background.

Date: 1963, August 28
Duration: 1 min 42 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675029518