Steel workers arriving for work as the new Carnegie-llinois steel company plant (subsidiary of U.S. Steel) opens in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Officials inspect the plant. First operations of rolling hot steel begin. Workers entering plant. View of hot steel being rolled out and cooled.
Harold L Ickes, Secretary of Interior; Head of the PWA (Public Works Administration) and Mayor, Edward J Kelly, break ground for a $40,000,000 subway system in Chicago, Illinois. Thousands of people attend the ceremony. Mayor addresses the people. People show banners. A banner reads "At last we'll have the subway".
Corner stone of church reads: "Sweet Gum A.M.E. Zion Church 1868. Rebuilt 1905." View of the unpainted wooden church, with many panes of its stain glass windows missing or damaged. Sweet Gum A.M.E. Zion Church (560 Old Montgomery Hwy, Shorter, AL 36075, United States) near Tuskegee, Alabama. Rocky area at intersection of roads. A pile of rough-hewn timbers. A large industrial building (possibly a mill). African American masons and painters on scaffold work on front of building, identified by sign reading: "Farmer's Alliance Warehouse." Nearby sign reads: "Fortner's Country Market." Cars parked in road by the stores. A pig and two piglets seen on the dirt road. African American man and woman walk slowly down along a rough dirt path or dirt road.
A countryside road in Tuskegee, Alabama. A pit. Rough land and farm land with evidence of erosion. A car passes. A big tree at field. A wooden house. A house in between large height trees. An African American man cuts logs. Countryside terrain.
An African American boy on a donkey rides down a street in Tuskegee, Alabama. Sign boards at shops read "Atlanta Life Insurance Co", "Tuskegee Cafe" and "Cigarettes and Cigars We Serve Froze-rite Ice Cream". Close up views of an African American man and an elderly African American woman in a horse driven cart. Close up of a young African American man. A simple wooden house in a rural setting. Door of shack opens and an African American family of eight people are seen in the doorway, posing for the camera with smiling children. A white man talks with an African American man and two women converse on the front porch of a house. Two women with a boy. Two men talk standing at a well and discussing the well. View of rural farm land and freshly plowed rows. African American men in a farm field rake and spread straw. Two men appear to be spreading the straw with small sticks or brushing at it to look beneath the straw. Footage is during Great Depression years.
Three African American men look at logs piled in Richmond, Virginia. Heap of waste. View of construction site. A board reads "2nd Baptist Church". Two African American children walk on sidewalk. An young African American boy holds the hand of a very young child at a street crossing. Close-ups of several African American boys wearing caps and smiling for the camera.
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