Crowd outside assembly building where International Woman's Year conference is held. View of conference emblem. Women gathered up and talking. Various views of women arriving by cars (1960's and 1970's era cars and automobiles) for the conference and walking up the steps of assembly building.
Crowd outside assembly building where International Woman's Year conference is held. Women held signs. Women walking up the steps of assembly building. A man on steps of assembly building taking pictures of women holding signs.
Exteriors of school 'Escuela Primaria Presidente Pascual Ortiz Rubio'. Students in courtyard and streets. Various views of students walking, having snacks and sitting in courtyard of the school. Students entering and leaving school premises. Students walking on streets with traffic in background.
Traffic and hustle bustle on the streets in Mexico City, Mexico. Traffic moves around the El Caballito. Buildings around a branch of the National Bank. People walking on a small street between buildings. Business and residential buildings with a few churches around. Dusk view of the Mexico City and vehicles drive past on a road.
Russian revolution leader Leon Trotsky's funeral in Mexico. The casket with the body of Trotsky is placed in a car. Leon Trotsky's funeral procession on the streets of Mexico City. A group of men carries his casket. At a public viewing of the open casket, Mexican citizens take a last look at the body of Leon Trotsky in the casket. Members of the Mexican section of the Fourth International stand in honor near the casket. Mexican people stand in a long line to take a last look and pay their last respects to Trotsky. Views of the long queue for the viewing, stretching down a main street of Mexico City.
Thousands of citizens march in Mexico City demonstrating for Mexico to declare war against the Axis powers in World War 2. They converge on the main plaza (Zócalo) where President Manuel Ávila Camacho stands on the balcony of the Presidential Palace, with his wife, Doña Soledad Orozco García de Ávila Camacho, and members of his staff. View from a high point overlooking the plaza, showing thousands massed with the Mexico City Cathedral in the background. Narrator states that citizens protest against axis sinking of unarmed mexican ships. Flags of the United States, and allied flags are displayed. Flags are waved in salute for their dead comrades, by Survors of the SS Potrero del Llano, a Mexican ship torpedoed by the German submarine, U-564, on May 13, 1942. Camera pans over the square filled with people and banners. Next, President Camacho is seen asking the Mexican Chamber of Deputies for a declaration of war. People on the streets (some sitting on street lamps) listen to the broadcast over loudspeakers. Mexican Army soldiers seen in helmets. Uniformed troops line a sidewalk. Deputies applaud after unanimously approving the declaration of war.
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