A freight train moves on a railway track. Trainmen are seen on top of the box cars, and one on the caboose, who waves a flag. Police officers inspect vehicles on a nearby road in California. A sign reads 'California Inspection Station, Department of Agriculture'. California police officer speaks to car drivers and inspects vehicles before they drive past. Occasionally, the officer directs a car to pull off the road. A sign reads 'Stop State Officers'.
Recovery efforts from the Great Depression in the United States. (Footage largely from mid 1930's, produced in 1967). A farmer plows his field using oxen. Men and women work in fields. Price tags on food products. Officials of the Agricultural Adjustment Administration in an office discuss reforms to solve farming over production and low demand. Statue of Abraham Lincoln in the Lincoln Memorial. The White House building. Scenes of dilapidated farms and fields overcome by drought and dust bowl conditions. Farmers sit outside their houses fatigued and exhausted. Faces of tired, fatigued farmers. A town meeting of farmers in a small town. Franklin Roosevelt with cabinet and other officals in early days of his administration. Floods in Tennessee Valley washing away farmland. Farmland scarred by erosion lines and trenches. The Tennessee Valley Authority builds dams and power plants in the Tennessee Valley and helps farmers reclaim and improve land. Farmers in a rural town listen to a Tennessee Valley Authority official present plans of development. Establishment of Rural Electrification Administration. Electric power lines set up in the rural areas of the United States. Franklin Roosevelt addressing the U.S. Congress in the Capitol. Scenes from voting centers and of a voting booth in an American town. Wendell Willkie addressing a crowd. U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt converses with an African American official (possibly in connection with signing of Executive Order 8802, the Fair Employment Act). Eleanor Roosevelt behind him, and Secretary of State Edward Stettinius, Jr. to her left. Eleanor Roosevelt speaking to group of African American children.
Image of Justice Louis Brandeis, Supreme Court Justice who advised the President of Howard University to make a fine law school for Black Americans. Artists impression of a Black American lawyer defending a case in court after World War II. Dramatization shows female African American in school bus exclaiming “South Carolina’s run out of time, run out of courts!” Frank Jackson explains to his client how Howard University-trained lawyers completely changed the roles of the Black Americans. Image of Thurgood Marshall, the first African American Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. View of Howard University (2400 6th St NW, Washington, DC 20059, United States). An image of Thurgood Marshall with fellow lawyers, some of them Black Americans. Artist impression of Thurgood Marshall defending client in a Jim Crow Court hearing. Dramatization...African-American Lamar High School Student says “And when the courts say “go!”, you go! That’s the law!”
Opening credits of “The Fighting President”, a film about United States President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Scrolling description about how the economic collapse of the United States made it possible for Americans to vote for Franklin Delano Roosevelt as their new President. First Inauguration of United States President Franklin Roosevelt at the eastern front of the U.S. Capitol. “I, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States. So, help me God”. Crowd cheers after President Franklin Delano Roosevelt ends his oath.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt at his desk during his first term as President of the United States. Dramatization of Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s Dutch ancestor, Claes van Rosenvelt, working on farmland after settling down in New Amsterdam. Dramatization of Claes van Rosenvelt farming: Shows a farmer plowing a field with 2 horses pulling plow. Farmer sowing seeds on the field. Winter view of Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s home since childhood, the Springwood estate in Hyde Park, New York (4097 Albany Post Rd, Hyde Park, NY 12538, United States).
United States currency being printed at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, during the Great Depression. Female employee inspecting newly printed banknotes. Women employees inspect and arrange printed currency. Americans lined up at banks. Sign says “The Terminal National Bank of Chicago is Open for Business”. Clients wait in line in front of bank teller booth. United States banknotes and coins in teller booth. Bank teller replaces deposits of clients. Enthusiastic traders at the Great Chicago Wheat Pit. A board detailing prices of commodities such as what, oats, rye, barley and flax. Wheat traders open small bags of sample grains.