Scenes from America's annual harness racing event, the Hambletonian being held at Goshen in New York. Shows trotters racing and spectators cheering for their favorites from the stands.
Watts riots in Los Angeles City blocks decimated by fire. Buildings burning at night. Police leading two men who have been arrested. National Guard soldiers patrolling the streets. Burn out buildings the day afterwards. L.A. sheriff's car on street. L.A. police exiting a transport bus. National Guard soldiers behind a street barricade. Aerial view of line of police in the streets. Helicopter above parking lot with police and press vehicles.
German reporter speaks (in German) in front of the camera in Little Rock, Arkansas during Little Rock School Crisis, a watershed event dealing with desegregation in schools during the American Civil Rights movement. Arkansas National guard troops in background. Police arrest protesters. African American man being arrested. Large angry crowd gathers. Governor Orval Faubus greets National Guard officers. Man carried away by police. Shows crowds in favor of integration and crowds in favor of segregation (preventing the enrollment of the "Little Rock Nine" African American students), and police and Arkansas National Guard response (under Faubus) dealing with angry racist crowd and preventing integration of the schools despite the National Supreme Court ruling in Brown v. Board of Education.
Federal troops arrive in Little Rock,Arkansas to restore law and order follow court rulings on desegregation in schools. Troops march through residential areas. Shows soldiers of the 101st US-Airborne Division of United States escorting the Little Rock Nine (African American/African-American students) to Little Rock Central High school under civil rights integration orders.
Shows street fights between groups demonstrating for and protesting against racial integration in Little Rock, Arkansas, during Civil Rights movement. Several cameramen and photographers at the scene. White and African American citizens fighting. Troops of the U.S. Army 101st Airborne Division arrive to restore order and escort trouble making demonstrators away from the scene. Follows court orders in United States for desegregation of schools.
Elderly woman gives an interview in her palatial home. She says that every public facility should be integrated including library, hospitals and schools. She speaks for the civil rights of African Americans and the importance of integration based on her Christian faith. She was on the board of the Public Library when it was integrated 10 years prior.
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