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Function of local Veterans Administration offices in answering questions from United States military veterans after World War 2
A public service announcement or PSA after World War 2, targeted at U.S. military veterans. Narrator communicates how to correspond properly by mail when contacting the Veterans Administration. He encourages veterans to visit their local Veterans Administration office to get answers to questions when possible, rather than writing to the United States Veterans Administration. View of the central office of the Veterans Administration with a number of bags of postal mails and letters piled up. Stacks of letters received from veterans, at a rate of four million letters each month. Mails being sorted out by the staff. A veteran visits a local Veterans Administration office. Animation shows issues that the Veterans Administration cannot assist with, including housing, employment or jobs, and surplus property, and encourages that they contact other government agencies for help on those issues. They summarize problems of veterans that the Veterans Administration does look into like housing, jobs and employment, surplus military property, education, insurance and medical care. They encourage veterans to visit local Veterans Administration offices for answers and help.
Members of Ku Klux Klan perform ceremonial cross burning in the United States.
Ku Klux Klan (KKK) members during a cross burning ceremony in the United States (possibly Stone Mountain Georgia but location is not confirmed). A U.S. Army soldier in uniform is seen at far left Members of Ku Klux Klan dressed in robes and masks move in a circle carrying lit torches. The U.S. Army soldier sets fire to a huge cross using a lit torch. He steps away from the burning cross. The fire soars up and across the cross quickly. The soldier and KKK members stand in a wide circle around the burning cross. They throw their lit torches in the direction of the cross, landing on the ground..
African American students gain knowledge of medicine, economics, chemistry at Prairie View College and Howard University in the United States (WW2)
African American colleges in the United States during World War II. College curricula adjusts to war needs as they prepare students for various military and civilian occupations including war material production at factories and manufacturing. A sign reads ' Prairie View College' (Present day Prairie View A&M University, 100 University Dr, Prairie View, TX 77446) in Prairie View, Waller County, Texas. College campus with students milling about. Students at an agriculture class learn to maintain farm equipment, animal husbandry. African American students work in forges and machine shops making vital parts for the war effort in World War 2. They work on machines helping to meet war production worker manpower requirements. A building at the Howard University (2400 6th St NW, Washington, DC 20059) in Washington DC. Students in a mechanical design class learn to make designs of tanks, guns, and other war equipment. Students in a meteorological class study celestial navigation to guide airplanes. Students in a laboratory study the chemistry of a powder. At Howard University medical school students being taught the use the gravity of blood plasma in the battlefield by noted pioneer in blood plasma, Charles R. Drew. At the Howard University College of Liberal Arts, students learn the economics of war. An African American professor teaches a class on Industrial Accounting.
African American children and women in the United States.
Life of African Americans in the United States. Hands of an African American person. African American child and a woman. An African American worker and another man on a field. A worker dressed in battered clothes. An old woman with a wrinkled face. Hens on a field. A hen with chicks. A vessel with feed for the hen. An African American child as the mother combs her hair.
African American children play and houses of African Americans in the United States.
Poor living conditions of African American citizens in the United States. African American children with women as they smile. A child in mother's arms. A young boy wearing a hat. Three African American boys. Boys push two wooden toy cars as two other boys drive them around. A wooden house. Another house in poor condition and an elderly African American woman with an aged, wrinkled face.
African American children dressed in battered clothes and men and women work on a farm to earn a living in the United States.
Poor conditions of African American citizens in the rural south of the United States in 1940. African American children and women outside a simple house or shack. Battered clothes of a child depict the poor condition of the family. A young child gnaws on a rib bone. Barefeet of a child. A woman sows seed in a plowed field. African American man tills and plows a field as a horse pulls the plow. Closeup of a old woman wearing a scarf. She smiles. Men in dungarees talk in a circle as one of them holds a child. Closeup views of a a boy and a man who smile.
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