On the assistance by National Association for Advancement of Colored People's (NAACP) lawyers provided to civil rights demonstrators. African American demonstrators on streets and police block their progress during a 1960's civil rights march. Still photo of family and friends crying at the funeral service for slain civil rights activist Medgar Evers. A photograph of Roy Wilkins holding a sign stating "Against Jim Crow Lunch Counters". Roy Wilkins talks. Photograph shows African American people with American flag. Remarks from NAACP leader Benjamin Hooks who followed Roy Wilkins after his retirement as Executive Director. Roy Wilkins addresses at 68th NAACP Annual Convention. Roy Wilkins stands with others.
Women and children collect vegetables. A man with eggs walks out of a barn with a young girl. Examples of recommended food servings and healthy diet for growing children, per Department of Foods and Nutrition of the New York State College of Home Economics. Milk poured in a glass. Orange squeezed for juice. Woman cuts cabbage, potatoes, vegetables in a vintage 1940's kitchen. Dry beans in glass bottles. Woman cuts meat into pieces, spreads butter on bread. Fruits in a plate. Woman prepares food and fries bacon. Teenage boys and girls in bathing suits walk along a dirt path. A young man throws a discus. Teenage boys and girls on tennis court play tennis. The girls wear tennis skirt outfits and the boys wear only shirts and are shirtless. Two teenage youth wrestle. Men shovel hay. U.S. Army Air Corps pilots confer and then board Curtiss P-36 Hawk military airplanes at airfield. They take off and fly the P-36 aircraft.
Closeup of Ronald Reagan taking oath of office as Governor of California. His wife, Nancy Reagan, standing at his side. Views of Governor Reagan signing a document, and conversing with members of his staff. Reagan is seen addressing an audience from a stage; mingling with State legislators; speaking before an informal gathering of his backers. Reagan mingling with people at a political convention, and congratulating Richard Nixon when he became the Republican nominee for President. Next Gerald Ford is seen taking the oath of office as President in the wake of Nixon's resignation. President Ford and challenger Ronald Reagan on the occasion of their debate. People congratulating Jimmy Carter on his election as President. Carter and his wife, Rosalynn. Ronald Reagan speaking to members of a South Carolina Kiwanis Club. Reagan campaigning for President in 1980. Reagan being celebrated as the Republican candidate for President at the party's national convention in Detroit. He standing with his choice for Vice Presidential candidate, George Bush. Reagan makes a brief statement and the convention celebrates with balloons dropping from the ceiling, among other things. Closeup of Candidate Reagan and his wife, Nancy, at the podium, waving. Glimpses of Reagan during his campaign. Carter and Reagan in a nationally televised debate a few days before the election. Newly elected President Reagan with outgoing President Carter at the White House to arrange an orderly transfer of power.
African American Youth learn skills through program of the NYA (National Youth Administration) in Georgia and Alabama. The NYA employs African American Youth through State Agencies. Houses of the African American community. Clothes hanging outside their houses. Employee of the NYA inside the house converses with another woman. African American woman with her family members.
Howard Hughes testifies before the "Brewster" Senate Subcommittee, investigating war contracts. He talks about World War 2 contracts involving ordering of aircraft, light aircraft carriers, and the atomic bomb by President Roosevelt, through channels outside normal procurement bureaus. He states that he did not make 15 million dollars of profit on 40 million dollars in war contracts, despite assertions that gave the public that impression. In another comment he says, "If TWA (Trans World Airways) does anything wrong, I get blamed for it. But when TWA does anything right, then I had nothing to do with it. That's like Hollywood. When it's a good picture, Sam Goldwyn made it, but when its a bad picture, Willi Wyler (William Wyler) made it."
Major events of the year 1959. John Foster Dulles, Secretary of State before his death as he gets down from a car and enters a house. Dulles dies of cancer.
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