Jefferson Thomas, one of the African-American students part of the Little Rock High school segregation controversy walking amongst students in hallway of Central High School, Little Rock Arkansas, four years after graduating. The hall is filled with students changing classes. Thomas climbs staircase holding the bannister. A white student courteously tries to help him find his way. He walks down a hall and looks at teacher and students in a classroom. Scene shifts to years earlier, showing Thelma Mothershed, another of the Little Rock Nine African-American students, in a similar classroom at Central High, and then rapidly to her walking along a hallway, at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois. She speaks of teaching and children, as scenes show her with children in school settings. She is also seen in a dressmaking class. Scene reverts back to her at Central High in Little Rock.
American rocket boat tests. Malcolm Pope fits a rocket booster into an assembly on the back of his boat. . The boat moves under a bridge and Pope ignites the rockets, which accelerate the boat unevenly, so he loses control and the boat moves in a circle. Pope and his boat emerge from cloud of smoke unhurt. 'Dixie Torpedo' written on the boat.
U.S. military officers prepare to receive General Walter C Sweeney. View of Hangar No 5 at Homestead Air Force Base in background. General Walter C Sweeney arrives at Homestead AFB in Florida. He is greeted by other officers.1962.
U.S. President Woodrow Wilson is handed a baseball and throws out the ceremonial first pitch from his seat. Seen at left is first lady Edith Wilson; seen at right is Wilson's physician and personal aide Cary T. Grayson. Unidentified baseball player (presumably of Washington Senators team) holds a ball signed by " Woodrow Wilson." Location is Griffith Stadium in Washington, D.C. Date is uncertain, but no later than 1918, which is the last time Wilson is recorded to have attended a baseball game.
Glimpse of automobiles parked outside the Hotel Statler in Detroit, Michigan. Camera pans up to the top of the hotel. Then the scene fades to a busy street outside Ford Motor Company plant during shift change.
Excerpt from the fictional film "Birth of a Nation". A pro-Southern dramatization by actors on the effect of the Civil War and the Reconstruction. A man sits on a chair in front of a house in South Carolina. A lady stands nearby him. Other men stand near him. They all discuss on a paper. Little Colonel joins and discusses with them. African Americans and Whites meet in a hall. An African American speaker speaks in front of them. People stand in a field in front of a house. African American soldiers in a field. African Americans and Whites arrive for voting. African American soldiers take a man with them on gun point for not voting for them from a house. A man stands outside a house. The hands of the abducted man tied with ropes. The man is punished. Little Colonel discusses with all other men in this respect. The punished man talks to them.
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