Camera pans over name of new "Harlem Boys' Club" and then to inscription on building reading: "The Children's Aid Society of the City of New York." A small African American boy walks along the sidewalk and pauses to look up at the building. The scene is repeated with another take. Closeup of the boy. observers in the background. A girl enters new building, with cornerstone reading: "AD 1940." Several boys and girls of elementary school age enter the building, one at a time. African American children playing on swings in a play ground. A man pushes a small child on a swing. An apartment house directly across the steet from the playground. View across the playground of the swings and houses across the street. A very small boy walking on the playground.
Children relax and read books on blankets at Harlem Day Camp in New York City. A little boy throwing small objects. Other boys resting. Group of children with an instructor, painting pictures on paper. Girls practicing a dance movement in a circle. A group being instructed in fencing.
African American children sit on bench and talk at Harlem Day Camp in Harlem, New York City. A man cuts a metal sheet. He makes it wear to a child. Children jump. Children sitting on ground speak and instructor stands by them. Numbers written in boxes on ground. Counselor gives children milk and sandwiches. T-shirts of men and a girl read "Harlem Day Camp".
African American children play checkers during Harlem Day Camp in Harlem, New York City. Boys play Monopoly, a board game at street side. Girls play a racquet game. African American children play dog and the bone. Team members watch. One of the girls takes bottle and runs.
Corner stone of church reads: "Sweet Gum A.M.E. Zion Church 1868. Rebuilt 1905." View of the unpainted wooden church, with many panes of its stain glass windows missing or damaged. Sweet Gum A.M.E. Zion Church (560 Old Montgomery Hwy, Shorter, AL 36075, United States) near Tuskegee, Alabama. Rocky area at intersection of roads. A pile of rough-hewn timbers. A large industrial building (possibly a mill). African American masons and painters on scaffold work on front of building, identified by sign reading: "Farmer's Alliance Warehouse." Nearby sign reads: "Fortner's Country Market." Cars parked in road by the stores. A pig and two piglets seen on the dirt road. African American man and woman walk slowly down along a rough dirt path or dirt road.
African American women sit in on porch of a simple wooden shack house near Tuskegee, Alabama, during time of poverty in the Great Depression. A girl holds a cat. Two small children climb up steps. Wide view of open land and farm land near the house. A child cleans their face in a wash bin. She smiles after washing her face. Close up views of a woman man with a hand-fashioned long hammer on shoulder. Children play with sand at a table. African American girl sweeps the ground.
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