Corner stone of church reads: "Sweet Gum A.M.E. Zion Church 1868. Rebuilt 1905." View of the unpainted wooden church, with many panes of its stain glass windows missing or damaged. Sweet Gum A.M.E. Zion Church (560 Old Montgomery Hwy, Shorter, AL 36075, United States) near Tuskegee, Alabama. Rocky area at intersection of roads. A pile of rough-hewn timbers. A large industrial building (possibly a mill). African American masons and painters on scaffold work on front of building, identified by sign reading: "Farmer's Alliance Warehouse." Nearby sign reads: "Fortner's Country Market." Cars parked in road by the stores. A pig and two piglets seen on the dirt road. African American man and woman walk slowly down along a rough dirt path or dirt road.
African American women sit in on porch of a simple wooden shack house near Tuskegee, Alabama, during time of poverty in the Great Depression. A girl holds a cat. Two small children climb up steps. Wide view of open land and farm land near the house. A child cleans their face in a wash bin. She smiles after washing her face. Close up views of a woman man with a hand-fashioned long hammer on shoulder. Children play with sand at a table. African American girl sweeps the ground.
A countryside road in Tuskegee, Alabama. A pit. Rough land and farm land with evidence of erosion. A car passes. A big tree at field. A wooden house. A house in between large height trees. An African American man cuts logs. Countryside terrain.
An African American boy on a donkey rides down a street in Tuskegee, Alabama. Sign boards at shops read "Atlanta Life Insurance Co", "Tuskegee Cafe" and "Cigarettes and Cigars We Serve Froze-rite Ice Cream". Close up views of an African American man and an elderly African American woman in a horse driven cart. Close up of a young African American man. A simple wooden house in a rural setting. Door of shack opens and an African American family of eight people are seen in the doorway, posing for the camera with smiling children. A white man talks with an African American man and two women converse on the front porch of a house. Two women with a boy. Two men talk standing at a well and discussing the well. View of rural farm land and freshly plowed rows. African American men in a farm field rake and spread straw. Two men appear to be spreading the straw with small sticks or brushing at it to look beneath the straw. Footage is during Great Depression years.
Equestiran statue of George Washington in Richmond, Virginia (The Virginia Washington Monument). Various statues. People pass at roadside. The Virginia State Capitol building. A squirrel eats. Cars in lot in front of Old First Baptist Church (Greek Revival designed by Thomas Walter at northwest corner of 12th Street and East Broad Street. Note cupola over portico, which was later removed. The building later became the Hunton Student Center of Virginia Commonwealth University). New construction underway of another building beside the church. View down Broad Street. Cars pass at nearby intersection. A horse cart on a road with an African American driver, parked in front of the H. W. Rountree & Bro. Trunk and Bag Company located at 201 – 217 North Fourteenth Street. Scene changes to a long view down Broad Street. Next scene is sign that reads "White House of Confederacy Entrance on Clay Street". View of the back porch columns at the White House of the Confederacy. African American men on a horse cart pass by a parked streetcar or trolley. Another horse cart approaches, with two African American people on it. The cart is loaded with boxes. It passes by Triangle Service Station and then near a parked streetcar.
Three African American men look at logs piled in Richmond, Virginia. Heap of waste. View of construction site. A board reads "2nd Baptist Church". Two African American children walk on sidewalk. An young African American boy holds the hand of a very young child at a street crossing. Close-ups of several African American boys wearing caps and smiling for the camera.
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