An African student from Ghana walks with her American sponsor on the street in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. African student buys a Mamas and the Papas album at The Record Bar store, possibly at the Henderson St location. Close up of record in the shop, The Frivolous Five and Brahms (Conducted by Antal Dorati). View through shop window at African student on sidewalk with her American host, likely on E Franklin St. They enter a dress store. African student browses racks of dresses. A salesgirl helping the African woman. African students and friends view prints for sale on the street. An illustration depicting a bull. Ghanaian student talks to a fellow African student at the Old Well of the University of North Carolina (E Cameron Ave, Chapel Hill, NC 27514, USA).
Children arrive at school in the Appalachian Mountains of North Carolina. Girls and boys enter the building with paint buckets in hand (perhaps lunch buckets). View of a small wooden outhouse or shed behind the school building.
Coast Guardsmen wearing white uniforms perform drill maneuvers with their rifles along the Cape Fear Riverfront in Wilmington, North Carolina. They stand in place and move their rifles synchronously during the drill. A single Coast Guardsman performs drill maneuvers on the deck of a ship. Coast Guardsmen supervise and guard the site of a large liquor bust during Prohibition. The bust is at the corner of North Water Street and Market Street in Wilmington North Carolina, on the bank of the Cape Fear River. A Coast Guard ship moored at pier along Water Street. Hundreds of wooden boxes heaped along Water Street in front of what is today the Alton Lennon Federal Building and Courthouse, between Market and Princess streets. Workers destroy the boxes with axes and sledge hammers while Coast Guard look on. Illegal liquor flowing in the street. Men continue to remove more boxes from the building at the corner of Water and Market. Road is filled with smashed boxes. Crowd watches the activities from the end of Market Street. A truck arrives to pick up the smashed boxes. Boats and ships at the port by the street are shown. Smashed boxes are loaded on the truck. One nearby building is named the "Union Cafe". A book shop is in the same building. (Today, that building at 14 South Water Street is site of the Riverboat Landing Restaurant). The JW Brooks Wholesale Grocer building is also seen in the footage, with its sign painted on the Market Street side of its brick face.
Clip from a study of educational inequalities between the white and African American populations in South Carolina. A church of African American parishioners. People emerge from their cars and move towards the church. Parishioners entering the church for a church service, and later exiting the church. Views of an African American cemetery. (Charles Hamilton Houston, Dean of the Howard University School of Law, is seen crouched low near a grave beside a young boy. Houston was working together with Thurgood Marshall to film this footage). View of the Crawford Rosenwald School (4009 Saluda Road York County South Carolina) for African American children at Ogden, South Carolina. African American children play and dance at the Ogden School, which was built largely through their efforts due to limited state funding.
Scene opens with music playing and a large sign displayed reading: "2:oo AM, Band, Forks of Salmon Fire Camp." (Forks of Salmon is an unincorporated community of Siskiyou County in northern California, USA.) A band (named 2:00 AM) is playing and several people are dancing. Announcer states that the band members lost their home in the (still uncontained) fire, last Monday (August 31, 1987). A firefighter member of a Rocky Mountain team from Colorado, Wyoming, and South Dakota, wearing yellow shirt and red cap, expresses appreciation for welcome by Californians.
Cotton fiber being converted into yarn at the Burlington Mills in North Carolina, USA. Yarn is dyed before further operations. Skilled beamer sets colored threads into a pattern and they are rolled onto a loom beam. Beams go into a drawing machine. Prepared beams are made ready for the loom. Cotton fabric being prepared. View of cotton fabric blended with aluminum thread.
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