ECW (Emergency Conservation Work) members (later called the Civilian Conservation Corps or CCC) fell trees and stack wooden logs in forest area. Men fall timber trees. Map of United States shows Manned Emergency Conservation Work camp area. Workers dive into water stream. ECW members build houses. Emergency Conservation camp area during the Great Depression.
Montage of vintage scenes showing the Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey circus in the United States. Circus tents being erected. Circus train in background with Barnum Bailey lettering seen on it. Aerial view of the "Big Top" circus tents. A strapped small dog moves on grass. Men sit outside tents and animal wagons are seen in the background. Group of men in indigineous tribal costumes. A woman climbs a horse. Men and women in costumes and animals move in a circus parade. Views of circus performing bears, giraffes, elephants, horses, dogs. Acrobatic artists perform on the trapeze. Dancers and performers in costume. Man crosses tightrope bouncing along on his head. A man on a trampoline. Two clowns in conversation.
Federal and local agents, together with laborers raiding a moonshine still site in a forest during Prohibition in the United States. Tall shack explodes, blown up by agents. Smoke arises from the raided site. The shack collapses at the site. Officials in uniform with others gather near the place to check the fallen house. Laborers with sledge hammers demolish a liquor distillation still. Liquor barrels are emptied onto ground by enforcement authorities.
James Baldwin speaks in United States. Scenes of strife and struggle during civil rights movement. Policemen beat a African American man. Doctor Kenneth Clark, Professor of Psychology at the City College of New York; Director of Fallen Youth Opportunities Unlimited and Research Director, North Pride Center for Interpretation, sits in a chair during an interview. He speaks on the position of African Americans and America's Promise. Other scenes: Martin Luther King Jr. addresses a small gathering of African Americans. They are standing at the scene of a bombed out or destroyed church. He speaks about what happened there alluding that they know the truth of the racist hate crime. He speaks about remaining strong in striving for freedom for African American citizens. People around him sing and clap. Martin Luther King Jr. looks into a bible. Ebenezer Baptist Church and its interiors are seen, where Martin Luther King Jr. preaches. Exterior view of a Woolworths store where African Americans in protest sit at a segregated lunch counter at Woolworth store and wait to be served, in a non-violent demonstration. People pass through doors. Men moving on a road are stopped by a policeman. He stands with other policemen. The civil rights demonstrators stop and pray together. They are then directed to a waiting police paddy wagon van for arrest. Policeman hits a African American man. African Americans are put in police paddy wagons. Policemen detain African American demonstrators during a march and use dogs in rounding up demonstrators. Fire truck arrives during a protest and firemen spray fire hoses at African American demonstrators on May 7, 1963 in Birmingham Alabama during the Birmingham Campaign or movement. High powered fire hoses spraying water at demonstrators. Police chasing and detaining demonstrators in a crowd during a black civil rights demonstration. Martin Luther King Jr. leaving a courthouse, his wife by his side. He walks down the steps where a reporter asks him, "Dr. King how long do you expect to stay in jail". King replies "I'm under orders to keep walking."
Liberty Hall in Philadelphia. The cracked Liberty Bell. Reenactment of First Continental Congress and signing of Declaration of Independence. Paintings of George Washington crossing the Delaware River; and with his officers; and at prayer; Photos of Colonial cannons. Paintings of George Washington, on horseback.reviewing his troops; and on front porch of Mount Vernon. Copy of the Constitution of the United States.
Musician members of the American Federation of Musicians of the United States and Canada, at their annual convention, in 1954, applaud former President Harry S Truman as he stands with Union President, James Petrillo on stage. The play a short duet, Truman on piano, and Petrillo on the trumpet. They play a part of "Hail Hail the Gang's all here," to the delight of the audience.
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