Campus of Slossfield Work Center, a National Youth Administration (NYA) Center in Alabama. African American girls in a waiting room reading books on a table. Few others sit on a bench. A lady interviews a girl for NYA jobs. African American children play in a circle. Dinner is cooked in the kitchen. It is provided to NYA youth at a cost of 5 cents. NYA youth sitting on tables as dinner is served. Girls clean the center. They press and mend clothes. Winner of the College Scholarship shows clothes she made and wears one. Women attend arts and crafts class
A girl paints window blue. A woman works on plants in beds. A boy works in a wood factory. NYA (National Youth Administration) youths preparing equipment for library at Slossfield Work Center, a NYA center in Alabama. NYA girls learn to catalog manuscripts. Two boys paint roof and wall.
National Youth Administration (NYA) Medical Center in Alabama. NYA girls arranging records. A dentist's assistant arranges tools. A doctor examines a child as an assistant helps him. A nurse arrives and clothes the child. She leaves with the child.
NYA (National Youth Administration) girls working at Sloss Field Nursery School, an NYA center in Alabama. NYA girls caring and teaching children. NYA girl smiles. Children come out with NYA girls. NYA girl feeds them a spoon of cod liver oil and tomato juice in glasses. A child washes hands in basin. NYA girls help children wash hands in washroom. Children eating at tables. NYA girl is present at every table. NYA girls preparing children to go to sleep.
President Lyndon B. Johnson shakes hands with the Congressmen and then sits on chair. 64 pens along with the Tax Cut Bill document lying on table in front of him. A large gathering surrounds him. He takes a pen and signs the bill. Then he addresses the gathering. “No economic system anywhere has ever had the success of the American economy. By placing maximum reliance on the initiative and the creative energies of individual businessmen and workers, we have created here in our land the most prosperous nation in the history of the world.” President Johnson remarked on his speech upon signing the Tax Bill.
James Baldwin speaks in United States. Scenes of strife and struggle during civil rights movement. Policemen beat a African American man. Doctor Kenneth Clark, Professor of Psychology at the City College of New York; Director of Fallen Youth Opportunities Unlimited and Research Director, North Pride Center for Interpretation, sits in a chair during an interview. He speaks on the position of African Americans and America's Promise. Other scenes: Martin Luther King Jr. addresses a small gathering of African Americans. They are standing at the scene of a bombed out or destroyed church. He speaks about what happened there alluding that they know the truth of the racist hate crime. He speaks about remaining strong in striving for freedom for African American citizens. People around him sing and clap. Martin Luther King Jr. looks into a bible. Ebenezer Baptist Church and its interiors are seen, where Martin Luther King Jr. preaches. Exterior view of a Woolworths store where African Americans in protest sit at a segregated lunch counter at Woolworth store and wait to be served, in a non-violent demonstration. People pass through doors. Men moving on a road are stopped by a policeman. He stands with other policemen. The civil rights demonstrators stop and pray together. They are then directed to a waiting police paddy wagon van for arrest. Policeman hits a African American man. African Americans are put in police paddy wagons. Policemen detain African American demonstrators during a march and use dogs in rounding up demonstrators. Fire truck arrives during a protest and firemen spray fire hoses at African American demonstrators on May 7, 1963 in Birmingham Alabama during the Birmingham Campaign or movement. High powered fire hoses spraying water at demonstrators. Police chasing and detaining demonstrators in a crowd during a black civil rights demonstration. Martin Luther King Jr. leaving a courthouse, his wife by his side. He walks down the steps where a reporter asks him, "Dr. King how long do you expect to stay in jail". King replies "I'm under orders to keep walking."
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