From a film titled "The Calhoun School - The Way to a Better Future". Scenes of poverty and lack of education for African American farm residents of the "Big Swamp Section" of Lowndes County, followed by introduction to the Calhoun Colored School which aims to improve circumstances for African American children in the area. Open dry farmland. View of a simple shack. A Black child sleeps on a wooden bench. Some African American children prepare some food in a container. Some African American women stand near a hut. An African American child sits beside a hut. An African American woman works near a container. A Black man plows the field using ox-driven plow. An African American woman works in the farm. A hut in background. An African American man and children walking. View of a simple one room schoolhouse. Some African American children play beside a tree. Young African American children sit with teachers and watch the older children beside the rural school. They all reenter the schoolhouse together. Picture of Miss Charlotte Thorn who founded the Calhoun Colored School (CR 33, Calhoun, Alabama). View of the school grounds and buildings and students moving about. View of the school principal, Dr. Jerome F Kidder, seated in his office. African American girls wearing white uniform gather for a morning flag raising ceremony. African American girls and boys march and then gather for the flag ceremony.
Construction and allotment of houses under the Forest Heights Project of the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), in Mississippi, United States. The earth movers clear the land for the houses to be constructed. The officials discussing the Site Development Phase. Two workers working. A surveyor at work with a leveling instrument. Carpenters and workers construct a house. A tractor clearing land. A man and a woman enters Thiokol Chemical Corporation premises. Thiokol designs and constructs home management and maintenance training program for participating families. The officials are receiving and verifying the qualification of the home buyers. An official passes on the list to the program director who certifies whether an applicant is eligible or not. The list is then passed to the Community Participation Committee made of members of the National Council of African American Women and the Civic Action Committee. Members of Community Participation Committee have meeting. The recommendations are now forwarded to the Local Housing Authority for the final approval. The approved families are being given pre-occupancy training. The instructor distributes some pamphlets to the candidates. African American woman demonstrates the operation and use of a home appliance. A woman addresses the candidates. A house in the background.
Women being trained for home care under the Forest Heights housing project of the Department of Housing and Urban development, in Mississippi, United States. A trainer distributes pamphlets related to house keeping to women. The trainer elaborates the women about things related to the kitchen. She now elaborates how to keep the stove clean. A woman cleans the stove in the kitchen. An African American child takes an apple out of the refrigerator. A lady wipes the carpet. A lady opens the shelf which contains first aid medicine. Some ladies in the general store. An African American man and a woman sit in a room. The man feeds milk to a child with milk bottle. Some men being trained to diagnose maintenance problems in home. A man demonstrates the maintenance related to flush in the bathroom. Two men replace the door of a house. Three women enter the House of Ideas. National Council of African American Women assists the women to beautify their homes at low cost. Women being trained to make curtains, growing and making flowers. Women learn to decorate the home using decorator art.
Casualties of World War II receive mental aid in New York, United States. A psychiatrist listens to the story of a military patient in the Mason General Hospital suffering from mental and emotional trauma. The patient, an African American U.S. Army soldier from the Headquarters detachment of the 50th Quartermaster battalion, Mobile, Alabama, cries as he tells the doctor how he suffered headaches, grief and homesickness (or "nostalgia" as he put it) on receiving a photograph of his girlfriend shortly before the war and missing her greatly.
The Aleutian Islands Campaign of World War II. U.S. Army Service Force (ASF) provides logistical support to fight the enemy. A flag of the United States. A United States Army Air Forces B-25 Mitchell bomber flies. Various goods like timber, vehicles being unloaded from a cargo ship with the help of a crane. A ship carries troops. Soldiers disembark from a ship. A soldier carries a guitar.
The Aleutian Islands Campaign of World War II. A group of soldiers with an anti aircraft gun on Adak Island in the Aleutian Islands, Alaska. Six U.S. Army Air Force B-25 Mitchell bombers fly in the background. The aircraft land. Soldiers come out of the aircraft. Soldiers greet the returning squadron as they relax and sing. Photographers, meteorologist and others plan for the next mission.
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