Views of the streets of Manhattan, New York. High rise buildings that make up the skyline. The New York Stock Exchange at 18 Broad Street between Wall Street and Exchange Place. The Trinity church building at 79 Broadway. The busy Wall Street. Statue of George Washington in front of the Federal Hall National Memorial Building at 26 Wall Street. People and taxi cabs passing by.
Views of the courts of New York. The VII District Police Court and the XI Judicial District Court are shown. The busy streets have a number of cars running. 1937.
Robert Moses,controversial visionary urban planner of bridges, highways, and worlds fairs, inter alia, for New York City, from the 1920s through about the 1960s. He is seen at a desk in his office, wearing shirt and tie, but no jacket. A large map of Greater New York, including New Jersey and Long Island, is on the wall behind him. He makes and receives telephone calls. Scene shifts to another office, where he appears wearing a jacket. He reviews papers containing planning ideas including sketches. Mr. Moses annotates some of the documents.
Clip from a study of educational inequalities between the white and African American populations in South Carolina. A church of African American parishioners. People emerge from their cars and move towards the church. Parishioners entering the church for a church service, and later exiting the church. Views of an African American cemetery. (Charles Hamilton Houston, Dean of the Howard University School of Law, is seen crouched low near a grave beside a young boy. Houston was working together with Thurgood Marshall to film this footage). View of the Crawford Rosenwald School (4009 Saluda Road York County South Carolina) for African American children at Ogden, South Carolina. African American children play and dance at the Ogden School, which was built largely through their efforts due to limited state funding.
Views of a racially segregated school for African American students. Children can be seen playing and running in the playground, playing around the trees. Food relief: African American students wait in a long line at the public school for bread distributed by Emergency Relief of Tennessee Administration during the Great Depression. People in a crowded market area. Sign on one store reads "Nichols and Hendrix Furniture and Stoves".
Scenes of drought and poverty in early 1930s United States. Red Cross provides help to the victims of drought in the town of Marked Tree in Arkansas, during the Great Depression, and early in Dust Bowl period. People lined outside the Red Cross headquarters for food and medicine. Women, men and children in line to receive aid. Bridges over dry waterways. Scorched crops in the fields, emaciated, dying livestock animals. Hunger struck women and children. Close-up of children of a family with torn shoes or no shoes on their feet. Man shown picking dried up cotton bolls from sparse, unhealthy cotton plants. Man and woman with their 6 children outside a simple wooden shack home in a rural farming area. Close-up views of feet of children with shoes falling apart and toes sticking out of shoes. Hungry boys and girls lined outside Red Cross relief buildings. Each child walks out with a cup of something to drink and a biscuit in hand for food.
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