U.S. Coast Guardsmen with 11 prisoners move in a row on the port. The seized boat with cargo at the port along with the coastal guard boat. Workers removing seized liquor cargo from the boat. A coastal guard supervises them. The seize include liquor packed in bags. 'Pure rye Whiskey' is written on one of the bag. The seize is loaded on a wheeled cart and moved by workers. During Prohibition.
Glimpse of Central High School, Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1957, with U.S. Army troops posted to protect nine African American students enrolling at the school during Civil Rights movement. Scene shifts to after graduation, when Minnijean Brown, one of the nine, strolls the campus of Southern Illinois University, and speaks of wanting to be a writer. She is seen in the office of a newspaper, where she works as a part time reporter, after school. Brown walks on the college campus with Professor Simon. she bicycles and picnics with friends.
Jefferson Thomas standing against the wall in hallway of Central High School, Little Rock Arkansas, four years after graduating. Bell rings and the hall fills with students changing classes, including African American and white students. Scene shifts to Elizabeth Eckford, while a student at Central High, and then to her at Central State College, in Ohio, where she is seen moving about the campus buildings and grounds. Scene flashes back to 1957 where she is seen with others entering Central High, Little Rock, Arkansas, under U.S. Army protection during civil rights movement. Scene returns to Central State College, where students stand in a circle and sing their Alma Mater song.
Jefferson Thomas, one of the African-American students part of the Little Rock High school segregation controversy walking amongst students in hallway of Central High School, Little Rock Arkansas, four years after graduating. The hall is filled with students changing classes. Thomas climbs staircase holding the bannister. A white student courteously tries to help him find his way. He walks down a hall and looks at teacher and students in a classroom. Scene shifts to years earlier, showing Thelma Mothershed, another of the Little Rock Nine African-American students, in a similar classroom at Central High, and then rapidly to her walking along a hallway, at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois. She speaks of teaching and children, as scenes show her with children in school settings. She is also seen in a dressmaking class. Scene reverts back to her at Central High in Little Rock.
As an embarkation preparation U.S. soldiers enter in queue at Camp Merret in New Jersey. An officer gives commands. Soldiers receive ration packets, in a queue. A soldier with his ration packets. (World War i; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
Colonel William Joseph Donovan gives a speech in New York. He holds papers in his hands. Books arranged in shelves behind him. A lamp and a flower pot in background. He speaks about Hitler's policies and America's stand on it.
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