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Civil rights demonstrations, racial tensions, and school integration in America in the early 1960's.

African American men and women carry signs and demonstrate for equal rights outside a restaurant or store in the United States for civil rights. Jesse Jackson leads crowd in his "I am somebody" chant. A sign in the gathered crowd reads, "Jesse Jackson Black Jesus". Views of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom on August 28 1963, highlighting civil rights issues for African Americans. Next scene is during the Selma to Montgomery march and shows Martin Luther King Jr. and his wife Coretta Scott King marching next to James Michael Letherer (Jim Letherer) of Saginaw, Michigan. (Letherer, who lost his right leg to cancer as a child, did the entire march on crutches.) Next scene shows African American people as they riot and flip over a car during racial riots. A building burns during race riots. Ernest Green talks to others at the headquarters for the Apprenticeship Program of the Workers Defense League, funded by the A. Philip Randolph Education Fund. A white man enters a voting booth. White and black people at a polling place. Narrator says that African American voting is increasing in America. Images of of Mayor Carl Stokes,a black political leader in Cleveland, Ohio; Jesse Jackson, Preacher; and Ernest Green (Ernie Green), Youth Organizer and Executive. View of grounds of the Washington and Lincoln Memorial teeming with protestors against inequality and segregation during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in 1963. View of United States Supreme Court building and point of view shot as camera approaches interior chamber of the Supreme Court. Black students outside a school. Exterior view of John Philip Sousa Junior High School in Washington DC shows integrated student body. View of white students demonstrating against integration at Little Rock. Interior view of integrated elementary school classroom with both white and black children. Curb side sit-in demonstration in a southern city. Picketing demonstrators outside the S&W Cafeteria hold signs that read, "Christian Morality Condemns Segregation" and "All Men are Created Equal." African American demonstrators at the lunch counter of the S&W Cafeteria are served a meal by the waitress, along side white patrons at the lunch counter. View of a swimming pool that has been closed by a municipality rather than allow integration.

Date: 1963
Duration: 4 min 22 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675029511
U.S. troops aboard the transport ship Leviathan at Hoboken in New Jersey during World War I.

Documentary on World War I, titled 'Flashes of Action - Actualities of the World War'. Commander in chief of the American Expeditionary Forces, General John J. Pershing poses at Lucey in France during World War I. U.S. troops embark upon the U.S. Army transport ship' Leviathan' at Hoboken in New Jersey. Distant ships underway in sea. Troops dance and stage friendly boxing bouts aboard USS Wilhelmina and transport ship Tendores.

Date: 1918
Duration: 3 min 32 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675029577
General Pershing visits cemetery; Australian, British and New Zealand troops in a wrecked French town during World War I.

Opening few seconds show American General John J. Pershing viewing a grave marker at a fresh cemetery in France during World War I. Next scene shows Australian troops dig trenches in France during World War 1. Australian troops at a destroyed railroad yard. Group of French men and women and children civilians pose for the camera, while British troops stand in background. Close up of an old French woman. The elderly French woman is talking and appears to be expressing thanks to the Allied troops and potentially grief from the devastation of the war. Soldiers on foot pass by a bomb wrecked French town with buildings reduced to piles of rubble from shelling. British troops and supplies on horse carts pass by the streets of the demolished town. British lancer cavalry regiment passes by on horseback, with lances raised. New Zealand soldiers march on railroad tracks to board a train.

Date: 1918
Duration: 2 min 8 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675029653
Harry S. Truman, president of Old Trails Association, is honored at site of Madonna of the Trail statue in Lexington, Missouri.

Dignitaries and people gather at the NSDAR Memorial to the Pioneer Mothers of the Covered Wagon Days in Lexington, Missouri. The memorial (one of 12 identical ones) was established by the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR), and created by sculptor August Leimbach. Harry S. Truman, then Missouri's director for the Federal Re-Employment program (part of the Civil Works Administration), and President of the Old Trails Association, speaks to Mrs. John Trigg Moss, Chairman of the National Old Trails Committee. Mrs. Moss, in 1927, had designed the memorial that was sculpted by Leimbach, and dedicated in 1928. View of "Madonna of the Trail" inscribed on the main statue. Harry S. Truman, who later in 1934 was elected Senator of Missouri, holds up two miniature bookend models of the statue, which are being given to him as a gift for serving as President of the Old Trails Association. (Truman had also delivered the keynote address at the statue unveiling 6 years earlier). View from behind the statue with the Lexington Bridge, a seven-span truss bridge on Route 13, crossing over the Missouri River.

Date: 1934
Duration: 48 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675029843
Troops guard civil rights marchers in the third Selma to Montgomery Freedom March in Montgomery, Alabama.

View of the Freedom March from Selma to Montgomery in Alabama, United States. Marchers march under a Federal Court Order and with the protection of the federalized National Guard units and regular troops. Civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King addressing the 3200 marchers before it starts. View of the marchers walking on the Edmund Pettus Bridge. Dr. King and fellow leaders including John Lewis marching with the crowd. The leaders are wearing white flower leis. Group setting up camp on grounds of a African American farmer near New Sister Springs Baptist Church. A helicopter circles overhead.

Date: 1965, March 22
Duration: 1 min 52 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675029925
Oakland Police Department undertakes new community service oriented method of policing

Police sergeant briefs a room full of police officers in Oakland, California at start of their shift. Closeups of individual police officers sitting in briefing room. Policeman John Dixon in his police patrol car notes that new procedures improve relations with the community but ease somewhat on law enforcement. He knocks on an apartment door. He talks with an African American woman there, about her child. Several police cars seen on streets of Oakland, where they stop a car and search an African American man suspect, as local residents watch. In locker room at the police station, a uniformed officer speaks of being more community service oriented, at the expense of law enforcement. Oakland Police Chief George Hart, in civilian clothes, defends the new approach to policing. The uniformed officer agrees that it would be a mistake to go back to the earlier approach.

Date: 1974
Duration: 5 min 58 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675029950