Mary McLeod Bethune, Director of African American Affairs Division of Youth Administration, seen talking with attendees following the graduation ceremoney at the Calhoun school for African American students in Lowndes County, Alabama. Children cooking something in a container. Children playing on the ground. An African American child. A woman holds a child. Another woman holds a child. A child sleeping in a woman's lap.
Notable African American persons in the United States. Educator Mordecai W. Johnson sits along with his two children and reads a book at home in Washington D.C. Mordecai Johnson, his wife, Anna Ethelyn Gardner, and two of his children along with some other children reading and singing together. Hampton University coach of athletics, Professor Charles H. Williams at an interview in Hampton, Virginia. Publisher Isaac Fisher at his desk.
Notable persons in the United States. Famous African American tenor singer and accompanist Mr. Luther King and Mrs. King are interviewed and he sings. African American educator Mrs. Mary McLeod Bethune autographs a book and speaks to camera in Calhoun, Alabama. In Nashville, Tennessee, financier and business man James C Napier and Mrs. Napier pose for the camera.
Notable African American composer and teacher Dr. John W. Work (John Wesley Work III), seated at the piano. From a few different angles he is seen playing the piano. John Work stops and writes sheet music in a book at his side as he composes or arranges.
Notable African American physics researcher and teacher Dr Elmer S Imes smokes a pipe as he tests a battery in a science laboratory in the United States. Views of Dr Imes at work.
Notable African American persons in the United States. Sociology researcher Charles S. Johnson at his desk and Warren Logan, William Edward Burghardt also known as W. E. B. Du Bois, James Weldon Johnson, Charles S Johnson and Ira Reid pose for the camera. Close-ups of each personality. Chemist teacher Dr. Thomas W Turner works in a laboratory in Hampton.
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