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Health instruction and dormitory life for African American students at the Calhoun Colored School in Lowndes County, Alabama

African American students are given health instruction at the Calhoun Colored School in Lowndes County, Alabama, in the United States. A nurse shows the student malaria breeding areas. Young African American children students doing physical training exercises and stretches.. Scenes from the boarding dormitory: A girl combing hair of another girl. A group of female students play a game of checkers. A female student reads a book while other reads newspaper. A girl sits and writes something. Three students sit near a console phonograph record player as one student plays a record. Young couples dancing at a school dance. On the musician's bandstand are the words, "Shannons Pioneer Club Orchestra".

Location: Lowndes County Alabama USA
Date: 1940
Duration: 2 min 13 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675057563
Students at the Calhoun Colored School learn skills for farming in Lowndes County, Alabama.

A muddy road in Lowndes County, Alabama. Two African American men on a tractor doing road grading, part of a program with Calhoun Colored School Students working to improve communications between farmers and routes of transit to market their goods. Two men outside a farm house. A man plows field using plow driven by horse. A man plows a field using plows driven by two horses. "Captain" Roper, an early graduate of the Calhoun School, stands along with a farmer and advises on improved farm methods. A field getting plowed.

Location: Lowndes County Alabama USA
Date: 1940
Duration: 2 min 2 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675057564
African American students learn to make crafts and sew dresses at the Calhoun Colored school in Lowndes County, Alabama.

A group of African American children in the American south coming out of the Calhoun Colored School in Lowndes County, Alabama . Students make a small model of a hut with wood and a paper. Students learn craft work. A teacher calls the students. Girls learning to make their own dresses for their graduation ceremony. A girl displays the hand crafted dress. Townspeople dressed in their best walk along the road approaching the school to attend the graduation exercises. A band marching off to start the commencement ceremony. A huge gathering of people present. Young men and women graduates of the Calhoun School take the stage in pairs for the graduation ceremony. Several educators address the audience, including Calhoun School Principal, Dr. Jerome F Kidder.

Location: Lowndes County Alabama USA
Date: 1940
Duration: 3 min 39 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675057565
Mary McLeod Bethune following a graduation ceremony of the Calhoun Colored School in Lowndes County, Alabama.

Mary McLeod Bethune, Director of African American Affairs Division of Youth Administration, seen talking with attendees following the graduation ceremoney at the Calhoun school for African American students in Lowndes County, Alabama. Children cooking something in a container. Children playing on the ground. An African American child. A woman holds a child. Another woman holds a child. A child sleeping in a woman's lap.

Location: Lowndes County Alabama USA
Date: 1940
Duration: 1 min 24 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675057566
African American Youth do their daily chores under National Youth Administration Resident Farm Project in Boligee, Alabama.

The NYA (National Youth Administration) Resident Farm Project in Boligee, Alabama. African American man rides a mule. Women involved in household tasks. They fill water and wash clothes. Men plow fields with the help of horses. Woman collects wood. African American man at farm, gives food to chicken and pigs. African American Youth eat food. They stand outside a dormitory.

Location: Boligee Alabama USA
Date: 1940
Duration: 2 min 22 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675044262
A high school team, with a girl kicker, wins a football game 41-0 in Atmore, Alabama.

A high school football game in Atmore, Alabama. A girl named Laverne Wise gets her hair combed and puts on lipstick. Wise seated with a high school football players as the coach talks to them. Cheerleaders leading cheer at sidelines. A team wins the game 41-0. Laverne Wise seated on the team bench, is called onto the field to kick for extra point, following a touchdown. Teammate holds the football as Laverne Wise successfully makes the kick.

Location: Atmore Alabama USA
Date: 1940, November 25
Duration: 55 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675059025
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