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Michigan State Spartans defeats Notre Dame Fighting Irish in college football in the United States.

A good year for Michigan State Spartans college football program. Michigan State defeats Notre Dame Fighting Irish, as the Spartans ran their undefeated string to 24 wins in college football, capping off the 1952 season.

Date: 1952, December 29
Duration: 26 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675035485
UAW-CIO negotiates 1st National Wage Pact with GM after striking over the issues

Opening Slate reads,"Fisher"( overlaid on "Pontiac") The United Auto Workers (UAW) Pontiac strike committee is seen in discussions. Several wear hats reading,"Local 594." They discuss their strike at the Fisher Body plant in Pontiac, Michigan, and General Motors (GM) Company's intent to bring in Strike Breakers. View of union members on a picket line outside the factory. They swarm over a car carrying Strike Breakers, determined not to allow them through, even pushing it backwards. Uniformed policemen forcibly enter the fray and try to prevent the strikers from denying access to the plant. Men and women strike supporters looking on. Strikers begin to rock a Strike Breaker car. Policeman wielding a billy club walks toward union supporters. Closeups of men on the picket line. Some drinking water from a supporter. View of the factory building with sign reading: "Fisher Body, Pontiac Division, General Motors Corporation." Newspaper headline reads," Dickinson Sends State Police to Pontiac Strike." (Luren Dudley Dickinson was Governor of Michigan in 1939. Glimpse of car with painted sign reading: "Michigan 157 State Police." A phalanx of armed State troopers, carrying billy clubs, moving toward the strikers. They deploy across the street from the picket line, with the intent of protecting GM property. Strikers leave and State policemen are seen on empty road and sidewalk. Strike Breakers do not appear. But members of other unions, supported by hundreds of citizens of Pontiac soon fill the area in a massive display of solidarity with the UAW cause. Closeup of a little girl in the gathering. Closeup of a man holding a little girl, next to a woman. Headline in Detroit News reads: GM and CIO (Congress of Industrial Organizations) Executives to Confer on Strike." Camera pans down rapidly from top of a General Motors office building. Eight CIO officials stand at the entrance of the building. Closeup of Philip Murray, President of the CIO. Camera pans across the officials, showing Walter Reuther, of the UAW, standing next to Philip Murray and UAW President, R.J. Thomas next to Reuther. A group of UAW union members and supporters marches around the GM office building. View from a high building, downward shows union members and supporters parading in formation on the sidewalk in front of the GM headquarters. View at street level of reenactors parading in much less disciplined manner. Some playing musical instruments. Families in the group. A man walks behind a moving 1928 Chevrolet automobile and then climbs upon its roof. Another glimpse of the highly disciplined paraders seen earlier. Men clowning around in the street. Another view of sidewalk filled with union members and supporters. UAW newspaper reads: GM Strikers Win, announcing 1st National Wage Pact, ratified by membership. UAW-CIO negotiators looking over the new contract.

Date: 1939
Duration: 5 min 26 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675048194
82nd Airborne (United States) soldiers on guard duty at precinct during Detroit riots in Michigan, United States.

United States soldiers during Detroit riots in Michigan, United States. Building of 'Detroit Police Department, 7th Precinct'. Police comes out the building. 82nd Airborne (United States) soldiers on guard duty at precinct. Soldiers smoke.

Date: 1967, July 27
Duration: 57 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675045063
United States soldiers on street corner detour civilians during Detroit riots in Michigan, United States.

United States soldiers detour civilians during Detroit riots in Michigan, United States. Damaged street and damaged buildings. Soldiers guard on street corners. Soldiers on street corner detour civilians. Sign: 'Beaubien, One Way' and 'Gold fare Bail Bonds'.

Date: 1967, July 27
Duration: 1 min 44 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675045060
Robert H. Goddard tests rockets in Roswell, New Mexico

American scientist Robert H. Goddard tests a rocket in Roswell, New Mexico during the 1930s. Title card “United States Marine Corps”. Program host, Dennis James, introduces. Early rocket launchpad built in 1927 by American scientist Robert H. Goddard. Robert H. Goddard and his assistants unload a rocket at their test site located in Roswell, New Mexico. Robert H. Goddard demonstrates an early gyroscope used for automatic stabilization. Assistants securing the rocket into the launchpad. Robert H. Goddard and his assistants watch the rocket from the observation shed during ignition. Distant view of rocket as it shoots straight up to 7500 feet in the 1930s. Robert H. Goddard and his assistants examine rocket and parachute after landing.

Date: 1932
Duration: 3 min 38 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675078919
African-American students outside Booker T. Washington High School in Atlanta, Georgia

African-American students walking outside Booker T. Washington High School in Atlanta, Georgia (45 Whitehouse Dr SW, Atlanta, GA 30314, United States). African-American schoolgirls in swing skirts and dresses walking on campus. Some High School girls are holding books. Black High School boys and girls pose together casually in front of the camera. Black male students, some wearing sunglasses and smoking cigarettes, form a crowd. More teenagers move in a line, some playfully push each other and laugh. A group of Black schoolgirls walking home together. Booker T. Washington Lifting the Veil of Ignorance statue (1927 replica of an original which stands at Tuskegee University) in front of Booker T. Washington High School. Satuue inscription reads “Booker T. Washington 1856 - 1915 He lifted the veil of ignorance from his people and pointed the way to progress through education and industry”.

Date: 1960, May 23
Duration: 1 min 14 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675079727