African American children in a rural school in the United States. The school building. Boy and girl children in the school yard. Clothing of the children is shown. One boy has old shoes with many holes in them. Girls sew and make crafts like baskets. Different hair styles by African American girls. Two elderly African American women. Close up views of faces of boy and girl children. A school teacher rings a school bell while standing in the door of the school house.
African American men and women in the United States. African American men, women, and children gathered around a truck. A girl smiles, as she eats an ice cream cone. A camera placed on a tripod. An African American child. Men play baseball. Large group of boys and girls walk along a pathway. Women talk and smile.
African American students attend convocation ceremony in the United States. African American men and women students walk side by side down the aisle of an auditorium and then seat separately, men in one section and women in another. Women and children seated inside the auditorium. African American men seated in the auditorium. At conclusion of the event, the men and women exit, as they came in, side by side.
Ku Klux Klan (KKK) members hold a ceremoney with cross burning in the United States. Members of Ku Klux Klan wearing robes and masks carry burning torch sticks as they move around in a circle. A huge cross on fire during the cross burning ceremony.
Aftermath of an accident on July 20, 1944, when two U.S. Army Air Forces P-51C Mustang fighter planes,flying low in close formation, struck a palm tree and collided over the 2800 and 2900 blocks of Post Street, in between Willow Branch and Cherry Streets. The crash caused a three-alarm fire involving twelve houses, three apartments, and three garage apartments. Both pilots, one a Lee High School Graduate, died in the crash. The only other fatality was a person killed by an airplane engine that crashed into his residence. (Reportedly, the aircraft were buzzing the home where parents of one of the pilots lived, in the 2700 block of Post Street.) Firefighters extinguishing the fire. Smoking houses. Debris lying in the area. People gathered around the houses. A damaged house. A wrecked car. (World War II period).
U.S. Navy WAVES (Women Accepted for Voluntary Emergency Service) celebrate their second anniversary in the United States. WAVES at a corn farm in Cedar Falls, Iowa as they detassle corn plants. The WAVES wearing U.S. Navy caps. They eat corn on the cob. At the Hunter College in New York : The WAVES parade as the Mayor of New York Fiorello H. La Guardia and officers review the parade. The WAVES carry the American flag as they march.
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