A film surveys federal provisions for federal schools for education of Native American Indian students in the United States during the Great Depression, and cultural integration of Native Americans into white cultures. An Indian woman holds her baby. An Indian man talks to a woman. Two women in traditional dress pose. Exteriors of a church. A picture depicting increase in grants for Indian boarding school education and decrease in appropriations for military control in the United States from 1886 to 1932.
U.S. Federal provisions for the education of the North American Indians in the United States during the Great Depression era. Native American Indian students come out of Chemawa Indian School boarding school in Oregon. An elementary school in Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota. Indian children on the grounds of Shiprock Reservation in New Mexico. Animated map depicts Indian schools in the United States. Cloth lines on the grounds of a school. A man walks out of a government school building.
Work-study education programs for North American Indians in the United States during the 1930s Great Depression era. Indian students enter a government school which is based on part-time work. Students learning new skills in the vocational school including typing, painting and working on blueprints (drafting).
U.S. government provisions for the education of Native American Indians during the Great Depression era in the United States. Clip focuses on Native American Indian students learning vocational skills, trades, and service skills so they can get jobs and earn a living. An Indian student works on a sketch. Students cultivate plants in a greenhouse. Girls at sewing machines. Three women pose. Indian women prepare food in a kitchen. Indian women learning nanny skills and caring for American children at a play school. Children on a slide at the playground.
New land and sea speed records are set in the United States. People gather in Daytona Beach, Florida. Sir Malcolm Campbell seated in his race car 'Blue Bird'. He drives the car on Daytona beach and sets a new record driving at the speed of 272 miles per hour. People cheer. Close view of him smoking a cigarette in the car after his speed run. Speedboat racer Garfield Arthur Wood seated aboard his speedboat 'Miss America' on the St Clair River near Detroit Michigan. He races the 5000 horsepower mahogany speedboat and wins the Harmsworth Trophy. Close up view of Gar Wood smiling after his race. From a November 10, 1958 newsreel recounting events 25 years earlier.
Image of Justice Louis Brandeis, Supreme Court Justice who advised the President of Howard University to make a fine law school for Black Americans. Artists impression of a Black American lawyer defending a case in court after World War II. Dramatization shows female African American in school bus exclaiming “South Carolina’s run out of time, run out of courts!” Frank Jackson explains to his client how Howard University-trained lawyers completely changed the roles of the Black Americans. Image of Thurgood Marshall, the first African American Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. View of Howard University (2400 6th St NW, Washington, DC 20059, United States). An image of Thurgood Marshall with fellow lawyers, some of them Black Americans. Artist impression of Thurgood Marshall defending client in a Jim Crow Court hearing. Dramatization...African-American Lamar High School Student says “And when the courts say “go!”, you go! That’s the law!”