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Activities of Eleanor Roosevelt in post-World War II period

December, 1945, former First Lady, Eleanor Roosevelt, now appointed by President Truman, as a delegate to the United Nations, is seen with other members of the U.S. Delegation. She is seen speaking while serving as chairman of the UN Committee Three, dealing with human rights. She recognizes the delegate from the Soviet Union, as the committee addresses issues of refugees. (The USSR insists that displaced persons be returned to their original homelands.) As chairman, Mrs. Roosevelt, rules a USSR proposal out of order, causing the USSR representatives to leave the room. A glimpse of Eleanor Roosevelt at a microphone during debate over the issue with the USSR, before the full General Assembly, where she successfully argues to allow refugees to make their own decisions about repratriation. She is seen sitting next to delegate,Senator Arthur Vandenburg, at the forum. Eleanor Roosevelt being greeted by U.S. Army officers as she steps from an airplane in Europe. She is seen mingling with persons in Europe, displaced by World War II. Back in the UN forum, she extols the International Declaration of Human Rights as an "International Magna Carta of men everywhere," and goes on to compare it with similar charters of history. She is seen at a Pan American World Airways terminal, preparing to board a flying boat (unseen). Several scenes show Eleanor Roosevelt visiting with people in various parts of the world, with particular attention to children. She speaks of her candid nature in a broadcast.

Date: 1947
Duration: 5 min 0 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675069299
Martin AM Mauler aircraft with mounted bombs and rockets under the wing takes off and in flight in the United States.

The shipboard attack aircraft of the U.S. Navy Martin AM Mauler in the United States. The aircraft taxis at an airfield. The aircraft takes a turn. A pilot in a cockpit. The propeller of the aircraft rotates. The bombs and rockets mounted under the wing of the aircraft. A crewman stand besides the wing of the aircraft and touches the rocket. The aircraft taxis and takes off. The aircraft in flight with mounted rockets and bombs.

Date: 1949, February 28
Duration: 46 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675069306
Men and women play Screwball golf game on a snow field in the United States.

Screwball golf game in the United States. The spectators stand in a circle during the game. A man hits a ball. He stands on a inflated pad and hits the ball with the stick. A close up of man's face. People skiing. Men and women stand together. A woman takes out a stick from a bag. A man puts a ball in front of the stick and the woman hits the ball. Men and women stand in the background. A structure on the snow and 'Snow Ball Screw Ball Club' written on the structure. The woman hits the ball. She takes out the ball from a hole. A man with his legs in a basket hits the ball. A man puts the ball in a hole by hitting it from back of the stick. A woman hits the ball and puts it in the whole. People stand in the background and watch her hitting.

Date: 1949, February 28
Duration: 1 min 23 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675069312
Harry S. Truman signs the Housing Act in presence of the Housing Administration members in Washington D.C.

U.S. President Harry S. Truman signs the Housing Act in Washington D.C., United States. Truman seated at a desk. Officials including members of the Housing Administration stand in the background. The president signs the American Housing Act of 1949, which expanded the federal role in mortgage insurance and creation of public housing. A close up of the members and Truman signing the act. The act and a pen on the desk. Truman seated at the deck holding a pen.

Date: 1949, July 18
Duration: 28 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675069315
Johnson addresses Congress on voting rights; Martin Luther King Jr and activists march for civil rights in Selma, Alabama.

United States President Lyndon Baines Johnson seeks end to civil strife in the United States. Exterior view of the dome of the U.S. Capitol Building illuminated at night. Inside view as the President addresses Joint Session of Congress to push a voting rights bill (Voting Rights Act) to end discrimination in voting. Dignitaries and members of the Congress are seated. Next scenes are all from civil rights marches in the U.S. during March, following the March 11 beating death of minister James Reeb. Protestors march on streets all over the country in solidarity with the Selma, Alabama marchers. They carry banners. A banner reads 'We March With Selma'. Another banner says "We Shall Overcome". The people march on streets and carry banners in a Harlem, New York demonstration. The demonstrators gather in large number to pay tribute to Unitarian minister James J. Reeb. Brown Chapel African Methodist Episcopal (A.M.E.) Church (410 Martin Luther King St, Selma, AL 36703, United States) in Selma, Alabama which was a headquarters for the drive for the right to vote. A sign reads 'Brown Chapel'. The people gathered during the campaign. Leader of African American civil rights movement, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., with other officials. View of protestors in the second Civil Rights march from Selma to Montgomery on March 9, 1965. Martin Luther King Jr marches with the people for Civil Rights. Men take pictures. Martin Luther King with white ministers, African American and white citizens, and civil right workers marching on the street. The police stand blocking the road at the end of the Edmund Pettus Bridge. The marchers stand. Martin Luther King Jr. speaks to a policeman. The marchers kneel on the street and pray. Men take pictures. Martin Luther King Jr with other officials speaks to the marchers. After praying the marchers turn around and go back to Selma. They cross the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama.

Date: 1965, March 15
Duration: 3 min 43 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675069346
Celebrities attend a party celebrating the return of Constance Bennett to Hollywood

Celebrities welcome American actress Constance Bennett back to Hollywood. A party takes place on the set of ‘Madame X’. Cameraman filming the party. Constance Bennett smokes a cigarette. Hollywood actress Lana Turner is accompanied by her husband, Robert P. Eaton. An American actress Sandra Dee with her husband Bobby Darin. Mexican actor Ricardo Montalbán talks to an actress. Hollywood film producer Ross Hunter and his friend Mervyn LeRoy at the party. LeRoy greets Bennett with a kiss. Universal President Milton Rackmill meets Sandra Dee. A Japanese American actress Miiko Taka with actor James Shigeta. A Dutch actor John van Dreelen and an American actor John Forsythe stand together and talks to each other.

Date: 1965, March 15
Duration: 1 min 24 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675069348