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African American students learn to paint and make ceramic wares at Howard University in Washington DC, United States.

A film by the Harmon Foundation titled "African American education for American living: Art in the African American schools" about academics and fine arts education in African American schools in the United States. A map of the United States depicts the proportion of African Americans to the total population as one out of every 10 persons. Next are a series of close-up views of various African American people of all ages. Well-dressed, college aged Black men and women are shown. An African American woman and man farmer are shown in an agricultural setting. The man holds a young girl. Close-up views of African American boy and girl as they smile in a school classroom. A map of the United States locates places of African American education in the country. Another map locates centers of African American education. Scene changes to a studio art class at Howard University in Washington DC. A class of young women and men paint a subject who is posing in the front of the room, wearing traditional African clothing. Professor Lois Mailou Jones instructs and advises a male student artist. Various portraits made by students depicting a man in African clothing. College students paint pottery. Male African American Students place ceramic pottery in a furnace as a male professor describes operation of the furnace. A young black woman paints a ceramic ware.

Date: 1937
Duration: 4 min 55 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675066792
African American men and women contributions to business, science and industry in the United States

Academics and fine arts education in African American schools in the United States. Contributions made by African American men and women in every sphere of American economy. African American men at work in a factory. Men work on various machines. African American scientists conduct experiments in a laboratory. Students pour chemicals into test tubes. An African American farming family works on a farm field, and examines cows at a dairy farm. African American young man operates an adding machine. African American woman typist at work typing. Close-up views of her hands on the typewriter. African American dentist works on a young girl's teeth.

Date: 1937
Duration: 2 min 0 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675066793
African American students learn painting and sculpture at Atlanta University in Atlanta, Georgia.

A film about academics and fine arts education in African American schools in the United States. A man paints a portrait of a girl at Atlanta University in Atlanta, Georgia (Clark Atlanta University 223 James P Brawley Dr SW, Atlanta, GA 30314, United States). African American students in a sculpture class. African American young men work on art sculptures. Professor Nancy Elizabeth Prophet, a Native American and African American sculpture artist, examines a bust sculpted by a student and discusses it with him. An African American man works on the sculpture. He gives finishing touches to the bust.

Date: 1937
Duration: 2 min 55 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675066794
African American students learn photography and work on negatives and positives at Tuskegee University in Tuskegee, Alabama.

A film about academics and fine arts education in African American schools in the United States. Students in a photography class at Tuskegee University (1200 W Montgomery Rd, Tuskegee, AL 36088, United States) in Tuskegee, Alabama. A girl seated as a man clicks her picture. The girl poses and smiles. Negatives hang from the roof of a room. The students develop the photographs. They work on the negatives and positives.

Date: 1937
Duration: 2 min 9 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675066795
African American students learn from Hale Woodruff and practice painting, engraving, and mural painting in Atlanta Georgia.

Hale Wooduff, famous African American artist and Art Director at Atlanta University, discusses paintings with young women and young men student painters. African American students paint. A student moves applies ink with a roller over an engraving, and then uses a press to render the art on paper. The student examines the pressing. Two men paint a mural.

Date: 1937
Duration: 2 min 50 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675066796
Workers load ore in railroad gondolas at a phosphate mine in the United States.

A phosphate mine in the United States. African American men work with shovels and pick axes to dig by hand and fill rail road gondola cars. African American workers dig out phosphate with shovels and picks. Smoke rises in the background. A foreman in a long coat stands and watches over the workers. Railroad gondolas loaded with phosphate ore. The small railroad cars are moved by locomotive train engine to an elevated dumping area. Crates of ore ascend the rail track to the top dumping station and are emptied. They are then rolled back down empty, and diverted to a different track via a rail switch. A railroad gondola train leaves the depot area towing empty cars back to the mining area. Clip ends showing a large spinning industrial drum used in part of the phosphate processing.

Date: 1920
Duration: 3 min 40 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675066797