Doctor James Smith, President of Louisiana State University arrives in New Orleans, Louisiana. Doctor James Smith brought from Canada to New Orleans where he is to serve jail time for embezzlement charges. Aircraft lands on the runway and Doctor James Smith and other people come out of it. Crowd gather around the airplane. View of various LSU buildings, a tower and scenes from the college campus of Louisiana State University in 1939.
People have fireworks in hand during night parade at Mardi Gras celebrations in New Orleans, Louisiana. King Hermes on a big float. Various other floats follow one after other carry people in different costumes. King and Queen of Hermes at Hermes ball. People dance at gala.
Xavier University, America's only catholic college for African American youth, in New Orleans, Louisiana. View of run down slum and tenement areas in the city of New Orleans in the 1930s Great Depression time frame. African American citizen moves outside the houses. A woman walks on a street with a bucket. Clothes hang from a string. Children standing on a road. Nuns pray in a church. A sign: 'Xavier' on a building. Exterior of a college building. African American college students seated outside the building read books. They leave the college building. African American man talks as he climbs down the stairs.