Airplane in air. Riggers with their parachutes. They jump from the plane and open their parachute. Riggers land on ground. A rigger removes his parachute after landing. Riggers sitting in maintenance shed. An instructor guides them to operate sewing machine through a model. A light duty sewing machine is used to patch canopy of parachute. A part of parachute canopy patched is displayed. Parker, a rigger operates a heavy duty sewing machine to repair harness of the parachute. Suspension lines are sown on a zigzag sewing machine. Hook is attached on a parachute on a hook and eye attachment sewing machine. The rib-cord is reinforced on a bar tacking machine. Holes are darned in the parachute canopy on a darning machine. Riggers darn holes with hands. They also replace hooks and harness assemblies. Parker works in the maintenance shed on a table. He checks canopy and notes on a pad. He also checks the suspension lines and harness assembly.
Buildings of Tuskegee Institution. Exterior views of many buildings of the Tuskegee Institute. Picture of Booker T Washington. Instructors train students in carpentry, farming and dairy farm. A Jessup wagon, used to transport trained extension agents for teaching farming skills to African American farmers in Alabama, is inspected.
Representative of United States Department of Agriculture and Extension Service of the State Agricultural College address the pupils of the Movable School (an agriculture education extension program of the Tuskegee Institute). Women play volleyball. Women participate in watermelon eating competition. In a competition laces of shoes of two men are tied and then they run. Competitors display their tied laces. The winners pose and smile. Men participate in a watermelon eating competition while their hands are behind their backs. A Ford truck called the "Knapp Agricultural Truck" used by the extension agents moves on a dirt road. Four people arrive in front of Collins' house (a farmer) in a car. Collins and his wife followed by other two persons holding a gramophone, comes out of the car. Collin and his family listen to music on gramophone in the front yard of the house. Top down view of gramophone phonograph record player as it plays a spinning phonograph record disc.
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. 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 standing against the wall in hallway of Central High School, Little Rock Arkansas, four years after graduating. Bell rings and the hall fills with students changing classes, including African American and white students. Scene shifts to Elizabeth Eckford, while a student at Central High, and then to her at Central State College, in Ohio, where she is seen moving about the campus buildings and grounds. Scene flashes back to 1957 where she is seen with others entering Central High, Little Rock, Arkansas, under U.S. Army protection. Scene returns to Central State College, where students stand in a circle and sing their Alma Mater song.
Soldiers sit on ground during a prayer meeting at Grassy Acre in Camp Robinson under 'Operation Arkansas'. U.S. Army chaplain Chester Lindsey of 101st Airborne Division addresses the meeting from a dais. Soldiers pray. Major General Edwin A Walker sits with the officers and soldiers of 101st Airborne Division. He sits on a chair while some of the soldiers sit in front and others stand behind him. He talks to the soldiers and smiles.
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