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U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicates the new chapel at Georgia Warm Springs Foundation

U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicates the chapel at Georgia Warm Springs Foundation in Warm Springs, Georgia. Cars parked on the road side. President Roosevelt arrives at the new chapel and drives up footpath to the door. Closeup of license plate on the President's 1938 Ford convertible (with hand controls) reads 'Georgia FDR 1938'. Following the dedication service, the President is seen standing supported by door of his car, as he shakes hands with Rt. Rev. Henry J. Mikell, D.D., Bishop of Atlanta. Standing nearby are Rev. J.D.C. Wilson, Rector of St. Mark's Episcopal Church in LaGrange, Georgia, and FDR's neighbor and friend, and former owner of Warm Springs, Georgia Mustian Wilkins, who donated the funds for the chapel. Scene shifts to large group of polio victims, in wheel chairs. Closeup of President Roosevelt. Group of polio victims , in their wheel chairs, posing outside a Foundation building, with McCarthy Cottage and the E.T. Curtis Cottage in background.

Date: 1938, March 28
Duration: 36 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675033790
African American women at Waluhaje Apartments in Atlanta, Georgia

Waluhaje Apartments, a segregated housing complex built by for African-American developer Walter H. "Chief" Aiken, in Atlanta, Georgia. (239 W Lake Ave NW, Atlanta, GA 30314, USA). A Black woman carries books while walking. Two African American women walk out of the main entrance of Waluhaje Apartments. Sign reads “Waluhaje Apartments 239”. Waluhaje Apartment front entrance as seen inside the lobby. Tenants walking into apartment front door. Rear view of two women walking out of the apartment front entrance. A man with his young daughter walk through the front door.

Date: 1960, May 23
Duration: 49 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675079730
A bank official speaks to a man inside an African American bank in Atlanta, Georgia

Inside the Citizens Trust Bank in Atlanta, Georgia, the first African American-owned bank to join the Federal Reserve bank. This is likely the Westside Office (Westside Branch 965 Martin Luther King Jr. Drive, Atlanta, GA 30314). Paintings depicting major Atlanta buildings hang behind bank tellers. Lorimer D. Milton, Citizens Trust's president and chief executive officer, is interviewed.

Date: 1960, May 24
Duration: 3 min 37 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675079718
Carnegie Library of Atlanta building in Atlanta, Georgia

People at the entrance of Carnegie Library of Atlanta (126 Carnegie Way, Atlanta, GA,) A man walks out of library front entrance. Front entrance inscription reads “Virgil”, “Carnegie” and “Dante”. A man and a girl walk out of the entrance. Entrance inscription reads “Library”. Street sign reads “Forsyth St. Peachtree St. N.W.”. Women crossing the street in front of Carnegie Library of Atlanta, demolished in 1977.

Date: 1960, May 24
Duration: 45 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675079737
A parade of Georgia Institute of Technology's 'Ramblin' Wrecks' in Atlanta, Georgia.

Homecoming Day at Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia. A parade of Georgia Tech's 'Ramblin' Wrecks'. A huge college crowd gathers to watch the parade. Automobiles from junkyards are used in the parade. The large vehicles move along a road. Smoke rises up from the junk automobiles. 'Power steering' and 'Dragon Wagon' written on an automobile.

Date: 1953, November
Duration: 39 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675054575
People gather to watch a football match played between the Yellow Jackets and the Commodore football teams in Atlanta, Georgia.

A football match between the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team which represents the Georgia Institute of Technology and the Commodore football team of Vanderbilt University in Atlanta, Georgia. People gather in a large number to watch the match. The match in progress. The Yellow Jackets team wins the match 12-7.

Date: 1949, September 26
Duration: 1 min 31 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675062838