Close up red flower zooms to red 1973 Oldsmobile Custom Cruiser Station Wagon parking in front of the Belle Mina market at 6811 Mooresville Rd. in Belle Mina, Alabama Woman enters market leaving car window open and door unlocked. The womantakes tub Parkay Margarine from store refrigerator . Stranger puts arm in the open car window to unlock the door behind the driver’s seat. Store clerk measures a bag of candies and places into clear plastic bag. Would-be rapist hides behind the driver’s seat of car. The woman carrying bag of groceries, opens car door, starts engine, and drives out of parking lot. Red 1973 Oldsmobile Custom Cruiser Station Wagon driving down country road. Close up woman's face chewing candy. Man hiding in rear seat rising up to attack. Woman and rapist seen in rear-view mirror. Pay from unpaved road to red 1973 Oldsmobile Custom Cruiser Station Wagon in brush at side of road. View of spilled candy and grocery items on empty driver's seat.
Two British War Brides of United States Servicemen on board the SS Argentina after World War II. Woman doting on her baby. Three women sit together as their infant children sit on their laps. Woman smiles as she and her infant daughter look at the camera. Two smiling women holding their children, the woman on the left with an infant and on the right, a female toddler. The women and their children have dinner together onboard. Toddler in a play pen playing with a doll. A mother comforts her crying child on the playpen. A child with wavy hair uses a potty for potty training. The SS Argentina. British women disembark the SS Argentina. Women being interviewed by an immigration officer. The other British women lined up behind. British women reunite with their US servicemen husbands and mothers-in-law in the American Red Cross Auditorium.
An American serviceman and his British wife look at their crying daughter on the right reuniting after World War II. Husbands and wives with their babies posing happily together. A British woman, part of the War Brides who arrived on the SS Argentina to reunite with their American servicemen husbands, is in a podium with her American serviceman husband, who is holding their baby. The British woman speaks about some societal disapproval of foreign marriages like hers and said, “Love is love, all over the world”. Reflecting the postwar ethos, the American serviceman adds, “This is a beginning of a new life for me”.
Excerpt from a film based on the 1970 Lamar High School Bus Attack. Door with sign saying “Frank Jackson Attorney at Law”. Inside the law office, an African-American student recounts the mob attack on his school bus outside Lamar High School on March 3, 1970. The African American lawyer, Frank Jackson, talks to the student. The student questions Jackson how, despite the rights given by the United States constitution, why do African Americans like him still suffer from racial discrimination. The student notes that the crowd came after him and other students with, "rocks and chains and axe handles." He further notes that it has always been, "if you're white you're right, if you're black, get back." Jackson explains to the student how they as African-Americans have to fight for equal rights for a long time. Jackson says, “Nearly eighty years after the constitution was adopted, the United States Supreme Court were still debating as to whether a black man could even be considered a citizen.”
Crowd in front of Little Rock Central High School (2120 W Daisy L Gatson Bates Dr, Little Rock, AR 72202), protesting against desegregation called by a United States Court Order in 1957, during Civil Rights movement. 36th Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus at a press conference. National Guard in front of Little Rock Central High School. 101st Airborne Division Federal troops running. United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower speaks on enforcing Arkansas to respect court order and constitution. A U.S. Army Airborne Federal troop service man assists two African American students into a car. Airborne Federal troops assisting and guarding African-American students to get inside their car. Airborne Federal troops escort the car with African-American students on their way to school. 101st Airborne Division troops apprehend white teenagers and force others away at bayonet point. Airborne Federal troops escort an apprehended teenager. Students walk toward the school. An army truck passes by. Airborne Federal troops and federalized National Guard troops surrounding the Little Rock Central High School. Little Rock Central High School students crowd in front of the school as the troops apprehend them. President Dwight D. Eisenhower ends his speech with the words, “thus will be restored the image of America and all its parts as one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all”.
African-American lawyer, Frank Jackson, talks to “Cliff”, one of the victims of the Lamar High School Bus Attack in 1970. African-American children lining up in school. Dramatization depicts a mob of angry white residents, one holding a stick in his hand as a club. White woman, wearing headscarf and shades, brandishes a frying pan. Dramatization shows Lamar High School with state troopers guarding the front of the school (216 N Darlington Ave, Lamar, SC 29069). Dramatization shows some of the mob being apprehended by state troopers. African-American students laugh inside the bus. Image of Robert Evander McNair, the Governor of South Carolina from 1965-1971. Attorney Jackson speaks to Cliff about Governor McNair’s dedication to protect African-American children’s rights to go to any school. Images of Governor McNair and Chief Justice Roger B. Taney. “ Only when the rights of the constitution are surely in the hands of poor men, as well as rich men, black, brown, red, and yellow men, as well as white men, can the constitution promise justice to share its equal place in law and order,” Attorney Frank Jackson says. Closing Credits.
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