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African Americans pursue equality in education through landmark case "Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka" in 1953

Artist Impression of the Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka in 1953. Image of Thurgood Marshall, the first African American Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. Artist Impression of African-American boy reading a book inside a classroom. Image of young African American students studying in class. Image of an African American boy. Image of Chief Justice Earl Warren. Image of William L. Patterson, an African American lawyer who fought for black justice in American courts for years. Image of Martin Luther King Jr behind bars. Very brief images of Jim Crow era lunch counter sit in, and bus burning incident. Footage of whites protesting in favor of racial segregation. Image of Black Americans holding signs saying “Birmingham Merchants Unfair” and “Equal Opportunity and Human Dignity”. Image of white Americans holding placards saying “Close Mixed Schools”. Image of a black American couple running away from fire. Footage of black Americans walking to support civil rights while guarded by officers with shot guns in air. Brief footage of Ku Klux Klan (KKK) members parading and holding the United States and the Confederate flags. Image of Martin Luther King Jr. with young Black Americans. Footage of black and white students clapping together to support civil rights. Image of Thurgood Marshall with wife, Cecilia Suyat, and a friend in Washington DC. Image of Thurgood Marshall. Image of President John F. Kennedy. Footage of Senator James Eastland, Senator of Mississippi, raising a gavel in front of photographers. US senate in session. Image of Thurgood Marshall speaking to Robert Kennedy. Image of Thurgood Marshall as a Solicitor General, walking on the steps of the United States Supreme Court in Washington DC. Image of Thurgood Marshall as the United States Solicitor General.

Location: Washington DC USA
Date: 1953, May 17
Duration: 2 min 39 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675079007
Yankees win World Series for fifth straight Major League Baseball championship, 1953

Newsreel clip highlighting the New York Yankees' victory in the 1953 Baseball World Series over Brooklyn Dodgers (their fifth consecutive championship). Highlights from game two: Mickey Mantle of the Yankees hits a two-run homer off Preacher Roe to drive the Yankees to victory and put them up two games to none in the Series. Older woman bounces and cheers in stands. Game three: at Ebbets Field, Dodgers catcher Roy Campanella drives a home run to left field off Vic Raschi, Dodgers win. Fan in sunglasses cheers. Game four: Duke Snider (seen in closeups) hits double, home run and double to lead the Dodgers to victory and even up the Series at 2-2. Black, white Brooklyn fans cheer. Game five: Mickey Mantle (seen in closeup) hits a grand slam to squelch Dodger hopes. Game six: the Dodgers' Carl Furillo hits a two-run homer in the ninth inning to tie the game, but the Yankees' Billy Martin singles up the middle in the bottom of the ninth to score Hank Bauer and win it for the Yankes. Fans cheer as Yankees celebrate on the field. (Note: The first World Series was held in 1903. So this was the 50th anniversary of that sporting event.)

Location: New York United States USA
Date: 1953, October 5
Duration: 3 min 27 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675035498
American Contralto, Marian Anderson doing several activities at her home in Connecticut and singing Ave Maria in concert

From a documentary about American Contralto, Marian Anderson, one of the leading classical singers in America. View of the Marian Farms, Marian Anderson's home in Connecticut, USA. Montage shows Marian working in her vegetable gardens, upholstering cushions, processing camera reel and cooking in kitchen. Marian Anderson and her arranger, Franz Rupp, working in a private studio. Marian practices in a room. She stands near the pianist and sings "Deep River" and "Comin' Through the Rye." She completes the song and asks the pianist about the next number. She takes a microphone and sings. Marian prepares to leave in her car. Scenes from a Marian Anderson concert where she sings Ave Maria, accompanied by a pianist. Audience applauds.

Location: Connecticut USA
Date: 1952
Duration: 9 min 20 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675050272
Birth of Connecticut Yankee Atomic Power Company and its nuclear reactor facility in the United States.

Map of United States showing location of a power plant of Connecticut. A woman in 1960's dress (Leslie Franzos) dances happily in her living room in front of a window air conditioner. Electric supply lines and power plants showing growth in the sector. Sunset and a graph with wavy lines depicting the limitation of non-renewable sources of power. Views of coal and oil production, pipeline, and transportation facilities including rail trains moving on tracks. Narrator describes fossil fuel supplies as abundant but finite. 1960's woman dances in front of graph depicting rising power demand through the decades ahead. Animation of names of various electricity producing companies. Model of the nuclear power plant of the Connecticut Yankee Atomic Power Company. 1960's fashion woman dances in front of model holding blueprints. Animation of map showing location of the plant. Aerial view of actual site of the plant. Sketch of the plant. Animated model of the functioning reactor and cooling system to be used by the plant. A submarine with reactor fitted. Pictures of nuclear power plants in use at Rowe Massachusetts and Shippingport Pennsylvania. Knobs and on-off of lights on a panel. View of interior control room at the Yankee Rowe nuclear power station. Group of executives in suits touring the Yankee Rowe nuclear plant grounds. Design architect at desk in an office reviews blueprints for nuclear plant.

Location: Connecticut USA
Date: 1966
Duration: 4 min 10 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675023821
Children with mental disabilities and the difficulties related with the condition in Connecticut,United States.

'Pattern for the Nation' depicts mental disability in children. Paul W. Morenzi, President of Travelers Broadcasting Service Corporation speaks about television documentary programs concerning mental disability and describes the progress being made in the State of Connecticut.. Mentally disabled persons are shown performing in an orchestra. Various mentally disabled people and children celebrate. A mentally disabled boy. Mentally disabled children in a classroom. A woman discusses the challenges of having a mentally disabled child. President Kennedy is heard speaking about the problem of mental disabilities. Connecticut's Deputy Health Commissioner, Bert Schmikel, who is in charge of the State's program speaks. A nurse with a toddler. A training institute for teaching mentally disabled children.

Location: Connecticut USA
Date: 1969
Duration: 6 min 31 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675033418
Needs and progress in education for the mentally disabled in Connecticut and the United States.

Volunteers provide education to the mentally disabled children in Connecticut, United States. A map hung on a wall. Narrator mentions that in 1959 the Connecticut Legislature created the "State Office of Mental Retardation." Mr. Bert Schmikel, Head of that office, points at the map and expresses his views about education for the mentally disabled children. Several children around a table. A woman helps them. A child tries to wear shoes. Another child wears a cap. A man helps as some mentally disabled children get off a car. A bespectacled boy with the American Flag. A mentally disabled girl and an African American boy. Two ladders placed horizontally on a table. The ladders are placed side by side in such a way that the rungs of the two ladders do not correspond to each other. A girl walks by placing her feet between the rungs of the ladders. A woman teaches needlework to a boy. A disabled girl fiddles with the zip of the hood of a boy's coat. A man stands nearby.

Location: Connecticut USA
Date: 1969
Duration: 3 min 24 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675033426
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