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.
Poor education conditions of African American school children in the United States. A dusty road in a town. African American children attend a rural school and play outside the school building. Two African American boys. Children at the school.
African American children in a rural school in the United States. The school building. Boy and girl children in the school yard. Clothing of the children is shown. One boy has old shoes with many holes in them. Girls sew and make crafts like baskets. Different hair styles by African American girls. Two elderly African American women. Close up views of faces of boy and girl children. A school teacher rings a school bell while standing in the door of the school house.
African American men and women in the United States. African American men, women, and children gathered around a truck. A girl smiles, as she eats an ice cream cone. A camera placed on a tripod. An African American child. Men play baseball. Large group of boys and girls walk along a pathway. Women talk and smile.
African American students attend convocation ceremony in the United States. African American men and women students walk side by side down the aisle of an auditorium and then seat separately, men in one section and women in another. Women and children seated inside the auditorium. African American men seated in the auditorium. At conclusion of the event, the men and women exit, as they came in, side by side.
U.S. Navy WAVES (Women Accepted for Voluntary Emergency Service) celebrate their second anniversary in the United States. WAVES at a corn farm in Cedar Falls, Iowa as they detassle corn plants. The WAVES wearing U.S. Navy caps. They eat corn on the cob. At the Hunter College in New York : The WAVES parade as the Mayor of New York Fiorello H. La Guardia and officers review the parade. The WAVES carry the American flag as they march.
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