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