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African American students are escorted to car from newly integrated school by U.S. soldiers under 'Operation Arkansas' in Little Rock

"Little Rock Nine" African American students are escorted from Little Rock Central High School by armed United States Army 101st Airborne soldiers, and enter a Country Sedan station wagon under 'Operation Arkansas' in Little Rock. Soldiers board a jeep and follow the station wagon. Soldiers march and drill with guns in front of the school.

Location: Little Rock Arkansas USA
Date: 1957, October 7
Duration: 1 min 2 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675024016
President Franklin D. Roosevelt catches a 77 pound Tarpon off the coast of Port Arkansas, Texas.

United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt catches a Tarpon off the coast of Port Arkansas, Texas. President Roosevelt and others in a Farley boat as he goes fishing along with Barney Farley, a fishing guide. President catches a 77 pound Tarpon and pulls it aboard the boat. Farley holds the Tarpon as President Roosevelt appears cheerful.

Location: Port Arkansas Texas USA
Date: 1937, May 10
Duration: 45 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675051402
Poverty in Great Depression; Red Cross provides help to victims of drought in Marked Tree, Arkansas

Scenes of drought and poverty in early 1930s United States. Red Cross provides help to the victims of drought in the town of Marked Tree in Arkansas, during the Great Depression, and early in Dust Bowl period. People lined outside the Red Cross headquarters for food and medicine. Women, men and children in line to receive aid. Bridges over dry waterways. Scorched crops in the fields, emaciated, dying livestock animals. Hunger struck women and children. Close-up of children of a family with torn shoes or no shoes on their feet. Man shown picking dried up cotton bolls from sparse, unhealthy cotton plants. Man and woman with their 6 children outside a simple wooden shack home in a rural farming area. Close-up views of feet of children with shoes falling apart and toes sticking out of shoes. Hungry boys and girls lined outside Red Cross relief buildings. Each child walks out with a cup of something to drink and a biscuit in hand for food.

Location: Marked Tree Arkansas USA
Date: 1931, February 5
Duration: 1 min 27 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675036005
Shows street fights between groups in favor of and opposed to racial integration in schools in Little Rock, Arkansas.

Shows street fights between groups demonstrating for and protesting against racial integration in Little Rock, Arkansas, during Civil Rights movement. Several cameramen and photographers at the scene. White and African American citizens fighting. Troops of the U.S. Army 101st Airborne Division arrive to restore order and escort trouble making demonstrators away from the scene. Follows court orders in United States for desegregation of schools.

Location: Little Rock Arkansas USA
Date: 1957
Duration: 37 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675029483
AME church service in Little rock, Arkansas; recognition for Little Rock Nine; scenes after 1957 church bombing in Montgomery

A service at the AME Church in Little Rock, Arkansas. Pastor addresses the African American congregation that includes several of the original "Little Rock Nine." They receive life membership in the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). Bombing damage done to the First Baptist Church (347 N Ripley St, Montgomery, AL 36104, United States) in Montgomery, Alabama is shown. African American women leave the Little Rock AME church after the service.

Location: Little Rock Arkansas USA
Date: 1963
Duration: 2 min 38 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675029497
Racial segregation and unrest of 1957 in Arkansas; Reporter interviews the Governor of Arkansas, Orval Faubus.

Reporter interviews the Governor of Arkansas, Orval Faubus about racial segregation of 1957 during his term. The Governor says that he is always ready to accept changes, but he conveys support for segregation by equating it to an "old building" or a "fine painting" and saying that it is "not good to tear down such a building or destroy such a painting simply because it is old." He continues saying, "These things are not good because they are old; many of them have grown old because they are good. And the experiences of many people have proved them to be good." Montage shows buildings, courthouse and justice statues, and public protests, with police arrests of African American marchers and demonstrators during the civil rights movement. Police beat some protestors. Jim Crow era signs segregating whites only versus colored waiting room facilities. Signs read "Colored Waiting Room" and "White Waiting Room." Local Arkansas officials and police beating back protestors with clubs and batons, and police seizing African American protestors and making arrests. US troops in jeeps and trucks arriving and deploying in Arkansas. Included are scenes with signs of Jim Crow segregation practices, with separate entrances for white versus colored patrons at an Intra-state bus depot.

Location: Little Rock Arkansas USA
Date: 1963
Duration: 3 min 25 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675029495
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