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African American college students listen to a professor in a classroom at Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee.

African American education at Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee. African American professor teaches students with the aid of a human skull. The students seated in chairs as they listen to the professor. African American students smile for the camera.

Date: 1937
Duration: 1 min 14 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675066780
African American students dancing at a ball at Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee.

African American education at Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee. African American students dance at a dress ball at the university.

Date: 1937
Duration: 54 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675066781
African American students attend lectures and work on different instruments at Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee.

Education for African American college students at Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee. A telephone operator at a desk as she attends phone calls using a small switchboard. Two African American professors at a desk as they confer and smile. Students in a classroom take down notes. Students work with a Monroe adding machine as they take down notes. African American student operating a mimeograph duplication machine. Another student operates what it appears to be a early photographic copying machine for paper documents.

Date: 1937
Duration: 2 min 11 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675066783
African American collegiate male singers sing around a piano at Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee.

African American education at Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee. College male African American singers around a piano practice a capella singing. An elderly female conductor conducts music. The woman conductor is seated at a piano with sheet music in front of her. The men sing (possibly gospel music or spirituals).

Date: 1937
Duration: 1 min 39 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675066784
U.S. President Richard Nixon addresses people and speaks about the American music in Nashville, Tennessee.

The opening of the Grand Ole Opry house in Nashville, Tennessee. U.S. President Richard Nixon present with his wife at the ceremony. Nixon addresses the people. He talks about the American music. He states that the country music has a magnificent appeal all across the country. He talks about some of the Hollywood stars, singing some of the more modern music that is hard to understand. He also talks about some of the men who served the United States in Vietnam and were prisoners of war. They were being entertained at the White House. They had been in prison for more than 6 years. He further states that the American music talks about family, it talks about religion, the faith in God that is very important to the country and particularly to the family life. He says that the country music radiates a love of the Nation, patriotism. People applaud as he ends his speech.

Date: 1974, March 16
Duration: 5 min 46 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675076601
American country music singer Roy Claxton Acuff sings a song at the opening of the Ole Opry house in Nashville, Tennessee.

The opening of the Grand Ole Opry house in Nashville, Tennessee. U.S. President Richard Nixon with his wife at the ceremony. American country music singer Roy Claxton Acuff gives a yo-yo to the President. He tries to use the yo-yo. People applauding. Acuff addresses the people. Acuff sings a song.

Date: 1974, March 16
Duration: 2 min 55 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675076602