U.S. Navy sailors parade along Pennsylvania Avenue to launch the Fourth Liberty Loan Drive in Washington DC. The U.S. Capitol is seen clearly in the background. A tall sign is seen above the skyline, advertising Kelly Springfield tires. The parade continues past the Post Office Building on the South and the Willard Hotel to the North, and turns North on 14th Street, with a huge brass band playing near the front. A few people ride in a bus festooned with flags and signs reading "Fourth Liberty Loan" and "Buy Your Bond Today." Marchers are seen passing the State, War,and Navy Building, (Old Executive Office Building) at Pennsylvania and 17th Street. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
U.S. Coast Guard Life Saving Station No 269, Muskegon, Michigan. Lake Vessel Bay State. Exterior of station, crew's quarters, communications room and dining area. Boat drill, signal drills with semaphore flags and patrol drill. A victim washed ashore is placed on a blanket, given artificial respiration and transfered to a stretcher.
In a outdoor speech before a joint assembly of the Mississippi State Legislature, Douglas MacArthur, General of the Army, talks about freedom, American tradition, and leadership. His remarks are critical of the current U.S. Administration and its failure of spirit, not of military resources, to tackle communism in Korea during the Korean War. He calls it a bankruptcy of leadership in our American tradition, and a glaring failure in Korea. He completes his speech, referring to God, and the religious faith upon which the country was erected. The General is applauded and thanked formally. The Legislators then act to dissolve the joint assembly.
Large crowd gathers at Hawkins Field, Municipal airport in Jackson, Mississippi, to greet arriving General of the Army, Douglas McArthur. Preceded by his wife, Jean MacArthur, and their son, Arthur MacArthur,IV, General MacArthur descends stairs from the airplane. The General salutes a U.S. flag, and is escorted by an ROTC cadet in uniform. He talks to soldiers in uniform, present in his honor. Large crowd gathers on and around the steps of the Mississippi State Legislature Building, where a large sign reads: "Liberty." Red White and Blue Bunting decorates the building. A light rain falls. Some spectators sit under a large plastic sheet.
At the Republican National Convention held in Cleveland in Ohio, Former U.S. President Herbert Hoover speaks to his fellow republicans. He stresses that the source of economic security is freedom in all forms, and freedom is the source of moral and spiritual progress. He decries liberalism. He states that fundamental American liberties are at stake. The NBC, MBS, and CBS networks have microphones at the lectern to broadcast his speech. RNC Chairman John Hamilton approaches Hoover and the podium at the end of his speech. 1936.
Clip from a study of educational inequalities between the white and African American populations in South Carolina. A church of African American parishioners. People emerge from their cars and move towards the church. Parishioners entering the church for a church service, and later exiting the church. Views of an African American cemetery. (Charles Hamilton Houston, Dean of the Howard University School of Law, is seen crouched low near a grave beside a young boy. Houston was working together with Thurgood Marshall to film this footage). View of the Crawford Rosenwald School (4009 Saluda Road York County South Carolina) for African American children at Ogden, South Carolina. African American children play and dance at the Ogden School, which was built largely through their efforts due to limited state funding.
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