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Elements of ordinary life in America that are captured in statistics and reports of the U.S. Census Bureau.
View of houses in an American residential neighborhood area in the suburbs, from low-flying airplane. Crowded street scene in a major city with black and white pedestrians walking on sidewalk in typical 1970s fashions. A public school No. 2. Yellow school buses carrying children. African American family with small children boarding a bus. A group of white people walking appearing to be a grandmother, her son, and three grandchildren. People enjoying a day in a park. African American woman standing near a large upright computer tape tape machine. She presses something on the machine to operate it. House with a "for sale" sign in the suburbs. A man opening the door of a 1969 or 1970 Ford Pinto car at a car sales dealership. Various report documents of the U.S. Census Bureau are displayed. Cattle being unloaded from a farmer's truck. A farmer cultivating a field, using a tractor. Views of State and Municipal Government buildings, including a view of the Justice Department in Washington DC, and including people entering and leaving the Compton, California City Hall building. Highway sign reading: "Leaving West Georgia Soil & Water Conservation District." Others, reading: Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission, Silver Spring Branch Office," and "Wakefield County Park, Fairfax County Park Authority," "District of Columbia, Storm Sewer Vicinity, 14th St. & Kentucky Ave. S.E," and "Harford County Metropolitan Commission, Water Transmission System." A late 1960s car approaching a toll booth on a highway. A policeman directing traffic. Several medical personnel in whites, walking on hospital grounds. A railroad worker. A teacher posting a notice on door, at a school, as school girls behind him try to read the posting. A steel mill with smoke rising from tall stacks. Cars parked outside of Lasalle College New Athletic Facilities construction sign. A Washington DC police car patrolling a city street. Cars parked bumper-to-bumper along a city street.
Dramatization depicts: African American student victim of Lamar High School Bus attack having a discussion with his lawyer about African American civil rights in Lamar.
Excerpt from a film based on the 1970 Lamar High School Bus Attack. Door with sign saying “Frank Jackson Attorney at Law”. Inside the law office, an African-American student recounts the mob attack on his school bus outside Lamar High School on March 3, 1970. The African American lawyer, Frank Jackson, talks to the student. The student questions Jackson how, despite the rights given by the United States constitution, why do African Americans like him still suffer from racial discrimination. The student notes that the crowd came after him and other students with, "rocks and chains and axe handles." He further notes that it has always been, "if you're white you're right, if you're black, get back." Jackson explains to the student how they as African-Americans have to fight for equal rights for a long time. Jackson says, “Nearly eighty years after the constitution was adopted, the United States Supreme Court were still debating as to whether a black man could even be considered a citizen.”
President Nixon presides over the 1970 Christmas tree lighting ceremony, in Washington, DC
Opening scene shows a large crowd in a rain storm, gathering on the Ellipse near the White House in Washington, DC. Almost all carry or share colorful umbrellas. Scene shifts to s choir on a covered stage and President Richard Nixon standing at a podium on an adjacent stage. The gathered audience is unprotected except by their umbrellas. On the stage with the President are Mrs. Nixon and daughters Tricia Nixon and Julie Eisenhower. In his preliminary remarks, the President mentions the weather, saying, "I know we want to express our very grateful appreciation to the Mormon Choir and to the Friends University Symphonic Choir for their participation and particularly under the rather adverse weather conditions which I know are very hard for those of you here in the audience." Camera focuses on the choir members. Next, a Girl Scout, in uniform, speaks at the podium. She is followed by a boy scout who also makes some remarks. President Nixon then delivers a Christmas message, saying that the nation could look forward to the end of the war. The President then steps down from the stage, to where several children have their hands raised in hopes of being selected to assist in the tree lighting. Nixon reaches down and picks up five-year-old Andre Proctor of Washington, D.C., saying, "he's the smallest child here." The President speaks with the boy about what they are going to do, as members of the audience watch from under their umbrellas. Next, the Christmas tree lights are seen, from a distance as they turn on, illuminating the area. Camera focuses and pans over the many lights on the tree. The President and his family are seen on the stage, as the camera pans over the choirs, audience, and the Christmas tree.
The U.S. Bureau of the Census processing data for the 1970 decennial census.
Posters in Japanese and Spanish, illustrating efforts by U.S. Bureau of the Census, to reach all Americans. Such a non-English sign in a barbershop window. Census enumerators conversing in a District Field Office. A woman checking responses against a master list of residents. Staff members discuss individual cases. Newspaper headlines reporting preliminary census results for their respective localities. Census staff making corrections after preliminary results are disclosed. A forklift moving a stack of census documents at the central processing office in Jeffersonville, Indiana. View inside warehouse at Jeffersonville, containing 75 carloads of census questionnaires stacked in bins. Staff in the Central Processing office using special machinery to microfilm the paper forms. View of census workers microfilming in near darkness. Woman at Census Headquarters, with machine called "Fosdic" standing for Film Optical Sensing Device for Imput to Computer. The microfilm is seen being fed into a reader that converts citizens marks on questionnaires into computer-storable (digital) form. View of microfiche census record containing citizens marks. Mailman delivering letters of inquiry to the Census Bureau. census worker looking up information in response to inquiry.
Scenes illustrating consumer prices and worker earnings, as tracked by Census Bureau in United States in early 1970s
U.S. Public Health Service Outpatient Clinic. An ambulance entering a yard. Businesses advertising their prices with price posters in shop and store windows, including: A radio and television store; A drycleaner and laundry; Furniture store; Carpet store; mattress store, grocer; butcher; and dairy. Workers carrying their earnings statements. Exterior view of woman outside post office after she collects retirement income check from U.S. Post office, at Brooklandville, Maryland, 21022. A telephone booth in front of the Post office.
Dramatization depicts: Angry mob outside school waiting to attack African American children in Lamar, South Carolina USA
Excerpt from a film based on the 1970 Lamar High School Bus Attack. African-American students chatting inside a school bus. School bus passing on a road. A gathering of militant white American parents in front of Lamar High School in Lamar, South Carolina (216 N Darlington Ave, Lamar, SC 29069). One African-American student looking agitated inside the school bus. The crowd angrily talk about how letting African-Americans study in the school impedes their rights. “not here, not now, not ever!” said a woman with disgust. A sign saying “Welcome to Lamar” prompts boy to say, "do you think they mean welcome?" “He ain’t gonna be in my grandson’s class!” a man says, pertaining to the possibility of African-American students studying alongside White students. African-American students become agitated as they approach Lamar. Woman wearing a headscarf and sunglasses talks about the arrival of the African-American students with indignation. Man menacingly holds a bat and say “They’ll gonna wish they was never born”. Lamar High School with state troopers guarding the front of the school. The school bus approach. Angry mob member holding baton behind his back, another mob member holding a brick. Angry mob crowd the school bus. African American students, scared, get down on the floor to avoid being hit with projectiles and broken glass from angry mob. The angry mob breaks the school bus windows. Image of state troopers outside Lamar High School. Title sequence of “The Color of Justice” with the overturned school bus in Lamar as the background.
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