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Tuskegee Institute in United States, and training of agricultural extension agents in Alabama.
Buildings of Tuskegee Institution. Exterior views of many buildings of the Tuskegee Institute. Picture of Booker T Washington. Instructors train students in carpentry, farming and dairy farm. A Jessup wagon, used to transport trained extension agents for teaching farming skills to African American farmers in Alabama, is inspected.
Activities of Thomas Monroe Campbell, the first federal extension agent commissioned at Tuskegee Institute
Representative from United States Department of Agriculture meet Thomas Monroe Campbell, a Tuskegee Agricultural graduate working in a field. They talk. A Supervisor and the States Extension Director discuss appointment of Thomas Campbell as an Extension Agent. Next scenes show Mr. Campbell in his role as an extension agent, using skills learned from the Tuskegee Institute to instruct rural African American farmers to inoculate hogs against cholera. He also demonstrates pruning of trees. Farmers in a corn field use hoe.
Tuskegee-trained home demonstration agent helps African American people in different fields
Home demonstration agent at Tuskegee Institute trains women as part of a Tuskegee Institute "Movable Schools" education outreach program. Collins, a farmer, meets a preacher. Two men with a poster from State Agriculture College. The poster advertises the upcoming arrival of a "Movable School" in the Alabama town. People read the poste and move to attend the school. Knapp truck (A Ford truck called the Knapp Agricultural Truck, so named to honor Seaman A. Knapp, of the national Cooperative Extension System) arrives with a group of instructors. Rural agricultural community of African American people learn skills from the movable school as they work in garden, water plants, erect stairs, mend houses, sharpen tools and make baskets. People learn carpentry under the guidance of an African American instructor. A new poultry house replaces an old hen house. A man views through a transit device as they learn about creating terraced farming plots.
Tuskegee Institute trained African American woman teaches as part of the Tuskegee Institute Movable School
African American woman who is an agent from the Tuskegee Movable School demonstrates various household and service skills to other women. The teacher demonstrates a fire-less cooker as women gather around her. She also shows dressing of wounds and cleaning and washing a child, as the baby cries. She demonstrates how to make fly paper. Women and men clean and mend beds and furniture under their guidance. A woman learns shoe shine skills and practices cleaning and polishing shoes. (Note: The female extension agents shown likely include Rosa B. Jones, Uva Mae Hester, or N. Juanita Coleman)
Teachers from the Tuskegee Movable School teach homemaking and construction
African American men in a rural agricultural community of Alabama sow plants in the front yard under guidance from a Tuskegee Institute trained Movable School teacher. Women are trained to set tables. Men construct an improved storage house for sweet potatoes on a farm. The farmer's old storage house was formed by erecting wood panels alone. The new storage is formed of a frame firmly placed on ground and then keeping separate boxes in it. A man plays violin and another one dances, as the others watch them and clap.
Various activities of a African American "movable school" in Alabama, United States.
Representative of United States Department of Agriculture and Extension Service of the State Agricultural College address the pupils of the Movable School (an agriculture education extension program of the Tuskegee Institute). Women play volleyball. Women participate in watermelon eating competition. In a competition laces of shoes of two men are tied and then they run. Competitors display their tied laces. The winners pose and smile. Men participate in a watermelon eating competition while their hands are behind their backs. A Ford truck called the "Knapp Agricultural Truck" used by the extension agents moves on a dirt road. Four people arrive in front of Collins' house (a farmer) in a car. Collins and his wife followed by other two persons holding a gramophone, comes out of the car. Collin and his family listen to music on gramophone in the front yard of the house. Top down view of gramophone phonograph record player as it plays a spinning phonograph record disc.