A bike race in Boston, Massachusetts. 700 boys ride through the city streets in a 12 mile bike race from Newton to Cambridge in Boston, Massachusetts. Boys ride down the streets as people flock to witness the race. Winners being greeted by a large number of people at the finish line. Winners with trophies.
Documentary depicts the end of the 1920s good times in the U.S. ("Roaring 20s"), leading into the Great Depression. Mildred Unger, age 10, performs a wing walker charleston dance while out on the wing of a JN-4 "Jenny" airplane in flight over Los Angeles in 1926.Four girls dancing on the top of a building higher than those around it, in Boston, Massachusetts. Amusement park patrons riding a roller coaster. People out driving through a park in their automobiles. Patrons enjoying themselves at the Steeplechase amusement park in Coney Island, New York. A crane piling old cars in a heap at a junk yard. But following the Wall Street crash (stock market crash) of 1929, conditions change in America. Group of men, women, and children standing together, looking sad and dejected, poor and desperate, due to conditions of the Great Depression affecting families. Still photo of group of people receiving food assistance in a city. A man, woman, and baby, in a tent (probably migrant workers). The famous 1936 photo, "Migrant Mother" by Dorothea Lange, of migrant worker, Florence Owens Thompson, with two of her children in California. Men receiving food from a city soup kitchen. Dejected unemployed men.
An industrial dispute in Boston, Massachusetts. Automobile traffic on a road. People on a street in a line. A policeman controls the people. A policeman on a horse in the background. Cars driven on the road while people in the line in the background.
Tourists visit Charlestown in Boston, Massachusetts. View of the Bunker Hill Monument (Monument Sq, Charlestown, MA 02129, United States) with buildings in the background. People walk outside the Old State House located at the intersection of Washington and State Streets in Boston. The State Capitol Building (24 Beacon St, Boston, MA 02133, USA) with pedestrians walking by. View of the Custom House and Boston Harbor behind it.
Race riots in Boston, Massachusetts sparked by dissatisfaction with welfare system during the Civil Rights movement. African American rioters on the streets in the Roxbury section in Boston. They smash glass, set buildings on fire and loot stores. Mobs throw rocks and bottles at the Boston police. Firemen work to extinguish fires in burning buildings. A rooftop sniper wounds a fireman as he extinguishes a fire. Boston police arrest a rioter.
Boston Fish Pier at the coast of Boston, Massachusetts. Buildings at Boston Fish Pier. Flag of United States flies above the Fish Pier building. The views are as seen from aboard a vessel approaching the Boston Fish Pier through the harbor.
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