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Atlanta Georgia USA 1956 stock footage and images

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Children in poor African-American neighborhood in Atlanta, Georgia

A poor African-American neighborhood in Atlanta, Georgia. Two African-American girls walk arm-in-arm on a dirt road in an Atlanta neighborhood. A black man and two boys walk past a house. Three black girls doing homework outside on the steps of a house. Black girls talking with each other. A black girl with head resting on hand with pencil. A black man resting on a porch with a heavy black woman wearing a headscarf and bandaged hand speaks with the man on the porch.

Date: 1960, July 23
Duration: 1 min 44 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675079714
African-American students outside Booker T. Washington High School in Atlanta, Georgia

African-American students walking outside Booker T. Washington High School in Atlanta, Georgia (45 Whitehouse Dr SW, Atlanta, GA 30314, United States). African-American schoolgirls in swing skirts and dresses walking on campus. Some High School girls are holding books. Black High School boys and girls pose together casually in front of the camera. Black male students, some wearing sunglasses and smoking cigarettes, form a crowd. More teenagers move in a line, some playfully push each other and laugh. A group of Black schoolgirls walking home together. Booker T. Washington Lifting the Veil of Ignorance statue (1927 replica of an original which stands at Tuskegee University) in front of Booker T. Washington High School. Satuue inscription reads “Booker T. Washington 1856 - 1915 He lifted the veil of ignorance from his people and pointed the way to progress through education and industry”.

Date: 1960, May 23
Duration: 1 min 14 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675079727
Dr. Frederick Earl McLendon, Atlanta, Georgia

Dr. Frederick Earl McLendon and his wife Mrs. Bennie B. McLendon are seen with a guest on the backyard terrace of their home in Atlanta, Georgia. They are then see in front of their house. Dr. McLendon, pulls mail from his mailbox. The couple returns to the house. Mailbox address reads “Dr. F. Earl McLendon 866 Woodmere Dr. N.W.” Dr. McLendon is then seen talking with an older associate while sitting at a patio table on the terrace. View of the home's swimming pool. African American Doctor Frederick Earl McLendon founded the McLendon Medical Clinic, later McLendon Hospital, which served African-American residents in Atlanta at the height of the Jim Crow era. The hospital opened in April, 1946 during a time of segregation in the south.

Date: 1960, May 23
Duration: 1 min 57 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675079732
Downtown Atlanta, Georgia street scenes.

The Dawg House restaurant in Atlanta, Georgia. Sign hanging in storefront reads “The noblest of all animal is the dog- and the noblest of all dogs is the hot dog- it feeds the hand that bites it – Leo Aikman”. Pedestrians crossing the Forsyth Street at intersection with Peachtree St. in front of the Arthur Murray dance studio. Billboard on top of building reads “Miami New Everglades Hotel”. Cars stopping for pedestrians to cross Forsyth. Pedestrians in early 1960s fashions walk past a hat boutique. A Hoover truck is parked on the street. A woman crosses the street while holding her toddler son. View of downtown Atlanta as seen from a moving car. S.H. Kress department store and Baker’s Shoes shop on Broad Street.

Date: 1960, May 24
Duration: 1 min 19 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675079738
Georgia Tech defeat Rice Owls with final score of 24-0.

Georgia Tech and Rice Owls play American football match at Grant Field in Atlanta, Georgia. Georgia Tech defeat Rice Owls with final score of 24-0.

Date: 1961, October 2
Duration: 2 min 43 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675034212
Cotton Carnival parade in Memphis Tennessee, USA

Cotton Carnival in Memphis. A series of parties staged at Carnival. Current year's selected King, Queen and Royal Court of carnival. Presentations and parade by all cotton producing states. Decorated floats go by in a night time parade as crowd cheers. Floats have elaborate artwork and kings and queens. Flags of cotton producing states seen on many floats, including Georgia 1956 flag incorporating the Confederate battle flag on the Georgia float.

Date: 1957, May 16
Duration: 42 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675040126