A man enters the Citizen’s Trust Company bank, the first African American-owned bank to join the Federal Reserve Bank, Westside Office (Westside Branch 965 Martin Luther King Jr. Drive, Atlanta, GA 30314). An elderly black man crosses Mitchell St. SW. A Wilson Truck Company truck drives past. A black woman carrying an infant crosses the road with her three young children. Forsyth Street in downtown Atlanta as seen from a moving car. Rich’s Department Store (61 Forsyth St SW, Atlanta, GA) and its “Crystal Bridge” over Forsyth Street connecting the 1924 "Store for Fashion" building to the 1946/1948 "Store for Homes" building. Store signs for Fleetwood Coffee and Postal Café. A revolving sign reads “Park”. The Fulton National Bank building (55 Marietta Street NW Atlanta, Georgia), now known as 55 Marietta Street building, as seen from a moving vehicle. Pedestrians cross a street near a Walgreens. Two black men smoking cigarettes pass by a parked John Ruskin Cigar van on a busy street. The Walter R. Thomas Jewelers shop at 28 Broad St is seen nearby. View of the Georgia State Capitol (Capitol Square SW, Atlanta, GA 30334, United States).
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.
Mix of stationary shots and point of view (POV) shots out front window and side window of a moving car. View of New York City apartment building. A man reads a book while sitting on apartment stairs. A bus driving on Port Authority Bus Terminal bridge. Sign with flashing arrow reads “Lincoln Bridge” A grocery store with sign reading, “Leon Feder Italian-Spanish-Greek-American Groceries”. Men working at a gas station with gas pump in foreground. A billboard for Alfred Felson for Service trucking behind sign pointing to Lincoln Tunnel with warning sign “Trucks keep right”. Cars and buses moving towards Lincoln Tunnel (Lincoln Tunnel, New York, NY 10018, United States). A police officer directs traffic. Buses lined up near Lincoln Tunnel in front of Hertz vehicle lease building with Empire State building in background. Vehicles enter the Lincoln Tunnel. Cars driving inside Lincoln Tunnel as seen from a vehicle. New York bus 66 driving through tunnel. Vehicles emerge from the Lincoln Tunnel, slowing down as they pass through toll gate. Approaching a toll gate as seen from a moving car while officer gives toll ticket. Distant view of New York City skyline from car driving in New Jersey. A Suburban Transit Corp Bus number 298 driving towards New Brunswick after emerging from Lincoln Tunnel. Point of view shots from a moving vehicle of other vehicles passing near an overpass. Cars approaching the New Jersey Turnpike tollgate. Road signs read “You have left the Turnpike. New Jersey Maximum Speeds- 25 mph built-up areas, 50 mph open area” and “Slow down and live!”. Several POV scenes show various 1950s cars driving on highways and roads.
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.
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