Glimpse of Central High School, Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1957, with U.S. Army troops posted to protect nine African American students enrolling at the school during Civil Rights movement. Scene shifts to after graduation, when Minnijean Brown, one of the nine, strolls the campus of Southern Illinois University, and speaks of wanting to be a writer. She is seen in the office of a newspaper, where she works as a part time reporter, after school. Brown walks on the college campus with Professor Simon. she bicycles and picnics with friends.
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.
On life in the southern mountainous areas of Kentucky and Tennessee. View of mountains and jungle. View of row of cottages and houses. American family sits on the porch of a house. Old woman with a baby.
Life in southern mountainous areas of Kentucky and Tennessee. American men stand and pose in the porch of a house. Two men play checkers. Both men wearing dungarees. View of checker board with set checker pieces on it. A third man wearing glasses is looking on.
On life in the southern mountainous areas of Kentucky and Tennessee. Old American woman makes a basket with bamboo sticks. The old woman holds a finished basket made of bamboo stick.
On life in the Southern Mountainous areas of Kentucky and Tennessee. Old woman knits a sweater while another woman spins wool on handloom. Woman sits and examines woolen garment.
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