Horatio Casterbuilt of Coyote Canyon, Oregon displays a hat in which he fitted an electric fan to ward off the heat. Casterbuilt poses for the camera wearing his battery powered hat.
Scenes of Amelia Earhart taxiing her Lockheed Vega 5B airplane to the ramp, at Oakland Airport, on January 12, 1935, having left Wheeler Field, Honolulu the day before. This completed her solo flight from Honolulu, Hawaii (the first person to successfully accomplish such a transpacific flight). Crowds her airplane as she taxis in, and parks near a hangar of the U.S. Naval Air Station. Amelia stands in the cockpit of her airplane, holding a bouquet of flowers, as crowds mill about on the ramp beneath. Change of scene shows Amelia standing on a steel platform, of the airport tower, with her husband, George Putnam. Closeups of Amelia.
Riots, looting, and arson during an outbreak of urban racial violence in Detroit, Michigan. Entire blocks of homes on fire as seen at night. 36 are dead, over a thousand injured during period of unrest in the civil rights movement. A fire truck arrives at the scene. A house on fire. Firemen put out fire. A building engulfed in flames. Sniper groups keep watch outside shops to prevent looting. A looted and trashed shop. Storefront window glass is shattered. People walk on the trashed streets of Detroit. Firemen use jets of water to put out fire. President Lyndon B. Johnson denounces the riots and urges national law and order. “Pillage, looting, murder, and arson have nothing to do with civil rights” President Johnson said.
German reporter speaks (in German) in front of the camera in Little Rock, Arkansas during Little Rock School Crisis, a watershed event dealing with desegregation in schools during the American Civil Rights movement. Arkansas National guard troops in background. Police arrest protesters. African American man being arrested. Large angry crowd gathers. Governor Orval Faubus greets National Guard officers. Man carried away by police. Shows crowds in favor of integration and crowds in favor of segregation (preventing the enrollment of the "Little Rock Nine" African American students), and police and Arkansas National Guard response (under Faubus) dealing with angry racist crowd and preventing integration of the schools despite the National Supreme Court ruling in Brown v. Board of Education.
Shows several newspaper headlines relating to racial segregation and desegregation in Little Rock Central High school in Little Rock, Arkansas and the civil rights movement. Elizabeth Eckford, a member of the Little Rock Nine (African American students) speaks about the changes in Little Rock Central High school since 1957. High school girls,including an African American girl, shooting in a firing range. African American students are among those seen in Central High School lunch room. Students, including an African American, play basketball.
Man says he is an "integrationist'" concerned more about the "Immorality" of segregation than he is about its "Illegality". He criticizes the Court Orders during Civil Rights movement that require the school board to allow only a token number of African American students into previously all white schools. He criticizes Southern politics. High school students leaving Little Rock Central High School at end of day. Many board school buses.
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