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Little Rock Arkansas United States USA 1957 stock footage and images

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Cheer leaders lead practice session at the Little Rock Central High school in Little Rock,Arkansas.

Shows Cheer leaders leading practice session at the Little Rock Central High school in Little Rock,Arkansas.

Date: 1963
Duration: 24 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675029493
Reporters and photographers prepare for President Eisenhower's Announcement about sending Federal troops to Little Rock

A press conference at the White House in Washington DC. Television and press photographers set their cameras. View of Lincoln statue. The seal of the President of the United States. Picture of Confederate General Robert E. Lee. U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower takes his seat at a desk and begins to speak.

Date: 1957, September 24
Duration: 1 min 51 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675073520
Thelma Mothershed of "Little Rock Nine" speaks about her school days in Little Rock Central High school.

Shows Thelma Mothershed (ex-student member of the Little Rock Nine) preparing tea at her home in Little Rock, Arkansas. She speaks when asked by the interviewer about her school days in Little Rock Central High school during integration in the civil rights movement.

Date: 1963
Duration: 31 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675029484
U.S. Air Force Strategic Air Commend (SAC) Strategic Missile Competition, 1967

Film opens with view of building at Vandenburg Air Force Base, California. Sign on it reads: "1967 SAC Missile Combat Competition." Two Air Policemen stand at building entry next to two American flags. Inside the building, SAC missile crews line up to register. Participants are two combat crews and one target alignment team from each of the six Minuteman and two Titan II Wings. Next, Missile Wing Commanders drew envelopes from the Blanchard Perpetual Trophy Cup, to determine their specific exercise times. Closeup of Wing Commanders seated during the drawing. Closeup of the Blanchard Trophy. Views of Wing Commanders selecting envelopes from the Trophy. Scene shifts to outdoors, where a blue van is parked and a target alignment team of the 308th Strategic Missile Wing, Little Rock Air Force Base, Arkansas, is setting up and performing their "aiming" task. Next, a Titan II launch crew from the 308th Wing is seen in white coveralls inside a launch control training facility, working with consoles and computers. scene shifts to competition headquarters, where results are being posted on a large display board. Meanwhile, a Minuteman missile crew, from the 351st Stratgic Missile Wing, Whiteman AFB, Missouri, is seen performing actions in the training facility. A member receives a problem via telephone, and the crew works to solve it. More views of crews at work and scores being posted. View of auditorium where the award ceremony is being conducted on April 7th. General Joseph Nazzaro, CINCSAC, goes to the podium, as the audience rises and applauds. He makes a few congratulatory remarks to all participants and sits back down, as a Colonel prepares to announce the awards. Closeup of Wing Commanders and others in the audience. Three airmen from the 308th Wing pose with awards for best maintenance and best Titan maintenance. 390th Wing members pose with awards for best Titan crew. More awards are presented concluding with the top awards.

Date: 1967
Duration: 9 min 1 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675047092
Children roller skating, playing, and people walking in 1950s street scenes in the United States.

Children roller skating on sidewalk past a volkswagen and a 1957 Buick Roadmaster car, parked at the curb. A little girl in a dress skipping along the sidewalk with an extremely rare 1956 Hudson Hornet (with an open trunk) in the background. A man helps a small child in a red snowsuit walk on snowy sidewalk. A woman and small child, both in red slickers and hats, walk along street on rainy day. Children play in a sandbox on a sunny day. A man and boy are passed by two young girls walking at an amusement area. Sign on building beind them advertises "Nate Eagles Midgets." A large tent ahead ot the girls displays sign reading:"Operated by East Bridgwater, Class of -- (unreadable). A mother and two little girls in dresses and bonnets on a sunny day. Two boys playing marbles on pavement. Man cleaning a delivery bicycle. A woman checking personal appearance in mirror outside a store. Buildings are reflected in the same mirror. Mother and daughter talk with man at a crosswalk. A red and blue mailbox is behind him. The girl wears a red coat, black boots, and carries a large leather schoolbag. Views of girl's and women's feet in motion, wearing sneakers; wearing high heels and boots (on rainy pavement); and wearing rubber boots in snow and slush.

Date: 1958
Duration: 33 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675032778
African American student of the Little Rock Central High school of Arkansas expelled for saying "white trash""

Minnijean Brown, African American former student of the Little Rock High school "Little Rock Nine" (during Civil Rights integration) giving interview to a reporter. She described how she was expelled from the school six months after she enrolled because she used the words "white trash" when responding to certain white students.

Date: 1963
Duration: 25 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675029482