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Ku Klux Klan members gather at Stone Mountain for a ceremony near Atlanta Georgia

Members of Ku Klux Klan (KKK) dressed in white robes and wearing conical hoods with face masks gather at the foot of Stone Mountain outside Atlanta in Georgia. They march with a person leading the march carrying a big cross with lighted bulbs. They perform an induction ceremony for new members, after leading the new men, each wearing a small face mask, across a field. They burn a large cross in the field during the membership induction ceremony.

Date: 1949, June 16
Duration: 59 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675037929
American sculptors led by Roy Faulkner sculpt a tribute to the confederacy at Stone Mountain, Georgia

View of a the Confederate Memorial Carving honoring confederate civil war leaders, located at Stone Mountain, Georgia. Carved figures of Stonewall Jackson, Robert E. Lee, and Jefferson Davis, comprising the largest bas relief sculpture in the world. Each is riding atop their favorite horse, "Little Sorrel", "Traveller", and "Blackjack," respectively. Three sculptors led by Roy Faulkner work and carve the sculpture on rock. Faulkner describes the carving activity, done using the back-blast of jet-fuel-powered torches.

Date: 1970
Duration: 1 min 28 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675023495
Ku Klux Klan members dressed in white robes stand in a circle during ceremonies in Georgia, United States.

Ceremonies of Ku Klux Klan organization outside Stone Mountain Georgia, United States. A large number of men wearing civilian dress walk in a line on an open field, apparently as new recruits joining the KKK. The members of Ku Klux Klan (KKK) wear white robes and conical hoods with face masks. Lamps are lighted. The men dressed in white robes stand in a circle. An official of the KKK stands in the center. Stone Mountain visible in the background. United States flag in the center of the field. Cross sign is lighted on the ground. Ku Klux Klan members and a burning Cross during the induction ceremony.

Date: 1935
Duration: 1 min 32 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675054110
Routine life in Native American Indian adobe village in New Mexico.

A Native American adobe community in New Mexico. An alleyway between adobe homes. Wooden ladders against the buildings to provide access to roofs. A graveyard marked with dozens of crosses. A large structure stands in background beside a long tunnel-like structure. Out on the desert, bleached bones of animals are seen on the ground. A woman holds up an antler. Closeups of various bones held up for the camera. Views of artwork incorporating images as well as actual bones. Artist, Georgia O'Keeffe, in her studio. A closeup of one of her canvases. View of an artistic mobile suspended from a building beam. POV view from window in O'Keefe studio, of desert outside, as a car drives past. A small animal running across the ground. Goats in a pen. Panning views, from high rock formations, of desert below. A muddy creek beneath the hills, with simple bridge crossing it. The Rio Grande River running past a tree bent toward the water. Views of higher mountains (described by narrator as "mossy." Forests of various kinds in the mountains. Sheep grazing near a forest of aspen trees. Scenes of trees flowering in Spring. A fall of water from a mountain spring into a pool. Rivers and streams of water flowing into ever larger tributories toward the Rio Grande River. Diversion of water into irrigation ditches. Such a ditch circling a cultivated field, where two farmers are cutting a crop with a hand-held reaper. More views of landscape. A farmer uses a shovel to open path for water to flow into an irrigation ditch. The water seeping into field planted with crops. Closeups of various farm produce, including apples and various varieties of colored corn. Native American men, women, and children shucking corn. Irrigation water flowing into fields of crops. A man and woman hang peppers in the sun to dry. A wooden water wheel being turned by water. Worker inside small building housing a water-driven wheel in village of Barranca .He feeds grain into spout connected to grind stone.

Date: 1948
Duration: 7 min 35 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675040095
Post World War I political issues in the U.S.A. including Red Scare, anarchists, labor strife, and KKK

A huge crowd on streets of New York City cheering and celebrating victory over Germany in World War I after signing of the Armistice. A cemetery of U.S. soldiers died in World War I. Cross burning and views of hooded Klan members at a Ku Klux Klan (KKK) ceremony, with several uniformed U.S. Army soldiers in foreground, dimly lit (possibly at Stone Mountain Georgia but location not confirmed). Palmer Raid victims: Suspected leftists, left wing, and anarchists seen being led away in a group by police after their homes were raided and searched without search warrants, and some were deported, under program led by U.S. Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer, during 1919 and 1920. (Second group shown is likely in Paterson, New Jersey; note sign for J.T. Doremus Hardware on building in background.) Palmer Raid arrestees seen behind barbed wire fences where they were held without charges for three months and denied legal representation. Some arrestees being escorted by U.S. soldiers in uniform. Vigilante businessmen and town leaders enforcing 12 hour work days at Steel factories in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania and Gary Indiana. Vigilantes (deputized and armed by local authorities seen with rifles and shotguns marching down streets enforcing business demands and countering steel workers on strike. They approach a striking worker on the road side and seize a stick he is holding. Together with police they begin to beat back the protesting crowd of men. Someone fires a gun in the crowd and shooting starts. An injured or dead steel worker on the ground is lifted up by a man and carried away.

Date: 1920
Duration: 1 min 54 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675036808
Members of Ku Klux Klan perform ceremonial cross burning in the United States.

Ku Klux Klan (KKK) members during a cross burning ceremony in the United States (possibly Stone Mountain Georgia but location is not confirmed). A U.S. Army soldier in uniform is seen at far left Members of Ku Klux Klan dressed in robes and masks move in a circle carrying lit torches. The U.S. Army soldier sets fire to a huge cross using a lit torch. He steps away from the burning cross. The fire soars up and across the cross quickly. The soldier and KKK members stand in a wide circle around the burning cross. They throw their lit torches in the direction of the cross, landing on the ground..

Date: 1930
Duration: 26 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675059202