American novelist Robert M. Warren reads a book behind a stone wall with an inscription of the poem “Truth” by John Masefield. Robert Warren takes off his glasses. Students and American expats reading inside a library in Italy. An African American man reading. A young woman flips through a LIFE magazine inside a library. An old woman leaves her desk. A man pushes library cart inside the library. A hand flips through a picture book about the American Revolution.
Slide reads “And it came to pass in those days, that Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee, and was baptized of John in Jordan.St.Mark.Ch.1.v.8.”. View of the Jordan River in Palestine. Slide reads “Then the Spirit drove him immediately into the desert, ad in the desert he remained for forty days while Satan tempted him. St. Mark Ch.1. vv.12-13.”. View of the Judaean Desert, where Bible says Jesus Christ spent 40 days fasting. View of the Judaean Mountains, also known as the Hebron Mountains. View of the Mount of Temptation in the Judaean Desert.
A man enters the Citizen’s Trust Company bank, the first African American-owned bank to join the Federal Reserve Bank, Westside Office (Westside Branch 965 Martin Luther King Jr. Drive, Atlanta, GA 30314). An elderly black man crosses Mitchell St. SW. A Wilson Truck Company truck drives past. A black woman carrying an infant crosses the road with her three young children. Forsyth Street in downtown Atlanta as seen from a moving car. Rich’s Department Store (61 Forsyth St SW, Atlanta, GA) and its “Crystal Bridge” over Forsyth Street connecting the 1924 "Store for Fashion" building to the 1946/1948 "Store for Homes" building. Store signs for Fleetwood Coffee and Postal Café. A revolving sign reads “Park”. The Fulton National Bank building (55 Marietta Street NW Atlanta, Georgia), now known as 55 Marietta Street building, as seen from a moving vehicle. Pedestrians cross a street near a Walgreens. Two black men smoking cigarettes pass by a parked John Ruskin Cigar van on a busy street. The Walter R. Thomas Jewelers shop at 28 Broad St is seen nearby. View of the Georgia State Capitol (Capitol Square SW, Atlanta, GA 30334, United States).
Exterior view of the David T. Howard School in Old Fourth Ward (present address 551 John Wesley Dobbs Avenue.) This is the elementary school Martin Luther King Jr attended. Men enter school building. Sign on "Colored Only" taxi parked outside reads “Colored Only Atlanta Car for Hire Ass’n Inc. Member”. A Black woman walks down a stone stairway at a Fourth Ward apartment building formerly at the corner of Hilliard St and Irwin St NE in Atlanta. Closeup of community water pump. Foundations for Interstate 85 overpass under construction in background. This is during the segregated Jim Crow era in the south.
View from moving car traveling down Irvine Ave in Fourth Ward towards downtown Atlanta. A road as seen from a moving car as it approaches intersection of Irvine St. and Fort St. NE. Bridge abutments for Interstate 85 under construction seen in background. View shifts to buildings in downtown Atlanta along Houston St. (now John Wesley Dobbs Avenue.) A sign reads “Dunlop Tires”. Hotel Hampton, Pathway Bookstore and Avon Hotel are seen on the left side of the street while The Candler Building and The Rhodes-Haverty Building are in background. The English-American Building, commonly referenced as the Flatiron Building (84 Peachtree St, Atlanta, GA 30303, USA), in downtown Atlanta. Two taxis follow a truck as they turn onto Luckie St NW. Taxi rear advertisement reads “Visit Lake Spivey”.
The world premiere of the movie 'Bright Victory' at the Carthay Circle Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles. Actors Stephen McNally, Jeff Chandler, Rock Hudson, and John Hudson are seen along with other celebrities.
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