Street scenes in the Sweet Auburn neighborhood in Atlanta, Georgia. Black and White men walking on a street. Various store signs hang over the street. Store sign with Pepsi Cola logo. Store signs read “Beauty School & Supplies”, “Veterans Shoe Shop” and “Public Telephone”. A white man talks to an African American man wearing a suit. A pickup truck traveling on Auburn Ave NE turns onto Bell St SE. The Big Bethel AME Church (220 Auburn Ave NE, Atlanta, GA 30303, United States), the oldest African American church in Sweet Auburn, is seen in background. Street signs show intersection between Auburn Avenue NE and Bell St. NE. View of the Big Bethel AME Church tower “Jesus Saves” sign.
Street scenes on Fifth Ave. New York City. A well dressed woman in early 1960s fashions waves at the camera while walking with a friend. Women walking past the Best & Co. department store at 641-645 Fifth Ave and E 51 St. A group of pedestrians cross E 51 St along Fifth Ave. Brief shot of two women walking in front of St. Patrick’s Cathedral (5th Ave, New York, NY 10022, United States). Men waiting to cross intersection next to a stopped Cowan truck. Feet and legs of men and women crossing the road. Pedestrians early 1960s fashions cross E 52 St along Fifth Ave in front of Doubleday.
African-American students walking outside Booker T. Washington High School in Atlanta, Georgia (45 Whitehouse Dr SW, Atlanta, GA 30314, United States). African-American schoolgirls in swing skirts and dresses walking on campus. Some High School girls are holding books. Black High School boys and girls pose together casually in front of the camera. Black male students, some wearing sunglasses and smoking cigarettes, form a crowd. More teenagers move in a line, some playfully push each other and laugh. A group of Black schoolgirls walking home together. Booker T. Washington Lifting the Veil of Ignorance statue (1927 replica of an original which stands at Tuskegee University) in front of Booker T. Washington High School. Satuue inscription reads “Booker T. Washington 1856 - 1915 He lifted the veil of ignorance from his people and pointed the way to progress through education and industry”.
United States plane airdrops cargo during Vietnam War. Cargo with olive green parachutes. The cargo parachutes are seen descending and blowing after landing. Marines emerging from foxhole ringed with small ammunition crates. Marines inspect crates. An African American Marine pulls a strap from cargo container. Marines removing shipping straps from pallets and checking contents labels. A deflated parachute lying on the ground. A Marine inspects a shipping label from a crate. Close up of a shipping label for ammunition addressed to Lung Binh, Vietnam.
A United States Lockheed C-130E plane dropping cargo to Marines in Khe Sanh during the Vietnam War. Parachutes open as cargo descends from the sky. View of parachutes and cargo strewn across the countryside. Cargo crates and deflated parachutes on the ground and in rice paddies. Broken shipping crates in rice paddy. Marines, one of whom is African American, standing in ditch near broken crate.
Smoke is seen on a hillside near Khe Sanh during the Vietnam War. A United States Marine in Jeep looks to a Lockheed C-130E in sky. A parachute hung up in tree. Marine running towards camera from drop zone.
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