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African American boys play baseball on a field in Calhoun, Alabama.

Life of African American towns people in Calhoun, Alabama. African American boys play baseball on a field. Other boys watch the game.

Date: 1940
Duration: 21 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675050055
A young African American child sleeps in his mother's lap, Calhoun, Alabama.

Life of African American towns people in Calhoun, Alabama. A group of African American people gathered at a place. Small child sleeps in the lap of his mother. The sleeping child's face, hands and shoes.

Date: 1940
Duration: 53 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675050056
African American students dance on their graduation day in Calhoun, Alabama.

School activities of African American students in Calhoun, Alabama during the Great Depression. African American jazz orchestra band plays. African American students dance on their graduation day.

Date: 1940
Duration: 1 min 6 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675050057
Primary school African American children sing group song and play drums in Calhoun, Alabama.

School activities of African American students in Calhoun, Alabama. Primary school African American children sing a group song and play drums. A small boy acts as a Conductor.

Date: 1940
Duration: 1 min 13 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675050058
African American students in a class room hall, Calhoun, Alabama.

School activities of African American students in Calhoun, Alabama. African American students enter a classroom. Other African American students sit on benches. African American students leave the class room.

Date: 1940
Duration: 1 min 39 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675050059
Education at the Calhoun School for African American students in Lowndes County, Alabama.

From a film titled "The Calhoun School - The Way to a Better Future". Scenes of poverty and lack of education for African American farm residents of the "Big Swamp Section" of Lowndes County, followed by introduction to the Calhoun Colored School which aims to improve circumstances for African American children in the area. Open dry farmland. View of a simple shack. A Black child sleeps on a wooden bench. Some African American children prepare some food in a container. Some African American women stand near a hut. An African American child sits beside a hut. An African American woman works near a container. A Black man plows the field using ox-driven plow. An African American woman works in the farm. A hut in background. An African American man and children walking. View of a simple one room schoolhouse. Some African American children play beside a tree. Young African American children sit with teachers and watch the older children beside the rural school. They all reenter the schoolhouse together. Picture of Miss Charlotte Thorn who founded the Calhoun Colored School (CR 33, Calhoun, Alabama). View of the school grounds and buildings and students moving about. View of the school principal, Dr. Jerome F Kidder, seated in his office. African American girls wearing white uniform gather for a morning flag raising ceremony. African American girls and boys march and then gather for the flag ceremony.

Date: 1940
Duration: 5 min 37 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675057561