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