Franklin D Roosevelt's Presidential election campaign in Atlanta, Georgia. In the opening scene, New York Governor Roosevelt begins addressing a huge gathering of some 7000 people in the old Atlanta Armory auditorium, on the evening of October 24, 1932. The stage is filled with flowers donated by Atlanta florists, for the occasion, including a tall arch of flowers surrounding the speaker rostrum. Roosevelt begins his comments expressing appreciation for the warm welcome given by people of Georgia. The scene then changes, completely, and He, along with his family, are seen relaxing in his winter home in Warm Springs, Georgia. He sits with a group of musicians and listens as they play country music.
An Atlanta police car turns onto Butler Street (now Jesse Hill Jr. Drive) from Hunter Street (now Martin Luther King Jr. Drive) and drives past the Fulton County Jail also known as the Fulton Tower at 208 Butler Street. View of the Georgia State Capitol (Capitol Square SW, Atlanta). Entrance to the Fulton County Jail at 208 Butler. Visiting hours for “whites” and “coloreds” are on display at the entrance, also known as "colored signs" or Jim Crow statutes. Sign reads “Colored visiting hours Saturdays 9 AM to 12 PM Children under 13 years of age not permitted”. Another sign reads “White visiting hours Sundays 9 AM to 12 PM Children under 13 years of age not permitted”. A door with writing that reads “Don’t block door you”. View of the tower at Fulton County Jail. Cars pass by the Georgia State Capitol. An African-American man walks down the steps outside a neoclassical mansion in Atlanta.
Georgia Tech wins American football match in Atlanta, Georgia. Teams of Georgia Tech (Georgia Institute of Technology) and Miami University play American football game. Spectators watch the match and cheer the players. Georgia Tech wins by 14-6.
The Federal Prison, or United States Penitentiary, Atlanta, located in Atlanta, Georgia. Exterior view of the federal prison in Atlanta. Smoke rises from smoke stacks. Interiors of the prison with cell blocks. Footage from early in the 20th century.
College football game between Georgia Tech Yellowjackets and Tulane, held in Atlanta. A parade of cars through the streets, in Atlanta. Views of football game between Georgia Tech and Tulane which Georgia Tech won by 10 to 0.
A study of African American artists in sculpture, photography, painting, sketching, etching, writing and on antique in the United States. A building of Atlanta University (later Clark Atlanta University) in Atlanta, Georgia. Students, professors, and staff walk around the university campus. Harkness Hall at the university. Graves Hall and the Century Campus of the Atlanta University. Hale Aspacio Woodruff, an African American artist, teaches students in a classroom. Paintings displayed in the background. African American women walking on the campus grounds.
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