African American men and women carry signs and demonstrate for equal rights outside a restaurant or store in the United States for civil rights. Jesse Jackson leads crowd in his "I am somebody" chant. A sign in the gathered crowd reads, "Jesse Jackson Black Jesus". Views of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom on August 28 1963, highlighting civil rights issues for African Americans. Next scene is during the Selma to Montgomery march and shows Martin Luther King Jr. and his wife Coretta Scott King marching next to James Michael Letherer (Jim Letherer) of Saginaw, Michigan. (Letherer, who lost his right leg to cancer as a child, did the entire march on crutches.) Next scene shows African American people as they riot and flip over a car during racial riots. A building burns during race riots. Ernest Green talks to others at the headquarters for the Apprenticeship Program of the Workers Defense League, funded by the A. Philip Randolph Education Fund. A white man enters a voting booth. White and black people at a polling place. Narrator says that African American voting is increasing in America. Images of of Mayor Carl Stokes,a black political leader in Cleveland, Ohio; Jesse Jackson, Preacher; and Ernest Green (Ernie Green), Youth Organizer and Executive. View of grounds of the Washington and Lincoln Memorial teeming with protestors against inequality and segregation during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in 1963. View of United States Supreme Court building and point of view shot as camera approaches interior chamber of the Supreme Court. Black students outside a school. Exterior view of John Philip Sousa Junior High School in Washington DC shows integrated student body. View of white students demonstrating against integration at Little Rock. Interior view of integrated elementary school classroom with both white and black children. Curb side sit-in demonstration in a southern city. Picketing demonstrators outside the S&W Cafeteria hold signs that read, "Christian Morality Condemns Segregation" and "All Men are Created Equal." African American demonstrators at the lunch counter of the S&W Cafeteria are served a meal by the waitress, along side white patrons at the lunch counter. View of a swimming pool that has been closed by a municipality rather than allow integration.
Audio largely unintelligible. United States Army Air Force general seated at a desk talking about the Canadian KB-700 Lancaster Bomber program during World War II. Map on wall of European Theatre of Operations. Flag of United States is visible in the back.
First Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) of United States, John Edgar Hoover delivers a speech during an award ceremony of the Boys Clubs of America in the United States. He talks about the widespread evasion of law, extent of crime, and duty of the citizens to work for building better youth through education and guidance. He emphasizes the need to address the problem of crime through schools and education; the need for honesty to prevent crime. The attendees applaud.
First Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) of United States, John Edgar Hoover delivers a speech during an award ceremony of the Boys Clubs of America in the United States. He talks about law enforcement, plight of mothers whose children are in prison. He lays emphasis on children and youth engulfed in crime and juvenile delinquency, and the crusade of education to fight the same. The attendees applaud. An official thanks Hoover and begins to read out a telegram.
The aftermath of the World War I. People of America celebrate the end of the war. Soldiers aboard a ship as they return back to America. Several scenes of America before war. A parade. Sketch depicts the era during the presidency of Thomas Woodrow Wilson. Soldiers on the battlefield fight and fire artillery. A parade in America. Sketches depict the willingness of Woodrow Wilson to join the league of nations and America's refusal to join it. Woman of America casts her vote. Sketches depict the financial status of the Americans and the inflation after the war. Steel workers on strike. The policeman go on a strike in Boston. Sketch depicts the unsafe cities of United States. Picture of John Calvin Coolidge, Governor of Massachusetts. The governor inspects new police force after the strike is called off. Sketches of the revolution in Russia. Papers shows the various communist revolutions. Several sketches show the formation of communist party in America. A bomb packet reads name of John Davison Rockefeller, an American industrialist. Explosion occurs in a wagon. People injured and loss of property due to explosion. Police arrests the suspects. Sketches of the various strikes and disorders in America. Sketches of the immigrants to the United States. An official checks the immigrants. The U.S. Senator Warren Gamaliel Harding addresses the people. Harding with Thomas Woodrow Wilson in a car . Sketches compare the two Presidents.
United States Army personnel in a dramatized training session in United States. Colonel Robertson, Chief of School and Training at Office of Strategic Services explains personnel the preparation, arrival, establishment and 'prevalent cover' for secret agents. A movie made by OSS (Office of Strategic Services) "Undercover" (also known as "How to Operate Behind Enemy Lines") is presented to demonstrate how and why secret agents got exposed. Movie exemplifies the agents getting exposed because of inattention to details. A comparison between good cover and a bad cover is shown. Emphasis on proper mental attitude is laid by showing a mental attitude report of a student-Charles. (World War II period).
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