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British Prime Minister Winston Churchill returns to Cuba for a visit after the end of WW2

Winston Churchill walks with a retinue in Cuba during his tour of the country as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and after World War II. Winston Churchill, smoking a Cuban cigar, climbs with his wife, Clementine, and his retinue. Churchill puts on his hat and waves quickly in a terrace. Winston Churchill uses a pair of binoculars as he sits beside his wife while they watch a horse race. Churchill exits the grandstand. Winston Churchill smokes a Cuban cigar as he walks with his retinue. Winston Churchill is photographed. Churchill enters a Cadillac Fleetwood Series 75 limousine, before the car drives off. Winston Churchill, with cigar in his mouth, gets off the car. Winston Churchill shakes hands with United States military officers before he and his wife boards a United States Naval Air Service Bomber (Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress).

Date: 1946, February 4
Duration: 1 min 50 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675078996
African Americans pursue equality in education through landmark case "Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka" in 1953

Artist Impression of the Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka in 1953. Image of Thurgood Marshall, the first African American Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. Artist Impression of African-American boy reading a book inside a classroom. Image of young African American students studying in class. Image of an African American boy. Image of Chief Justice Earl Warren. Image of William L. Patterson, an African American lawyer who fought for black justice in American courts for years. Image of Martin Luther King Jr behind bars. Very brief images of Jim Crow era lunch counter sit in, and bus burning incident. Footage of whites protesting in favor of racial segregation. Image of Black Americans holding signs saying “Birmingham Merchants Unfair” and “Equal Opportunity and Human Dignity”. Image of white Americans holding placards saying “Close Mixed Schools”. Image of a black American couple running away from fire. Footage of black Americans walking to support civil rights while guarded by officers with shot guns in air. Brief footage of Ku Klux Klan (KKK) members parading and holding the United States and the Confederate flags. Image of Martin Luther King Jr. with young Black Americans. Footage of black and white students clapping together to support civil rights. Image of Thurgood Marshall with wife, Cecilia Suyat, and a friend in Washington DC. Image of Thurgood Marshall. Image of President John F. Kennedy. Footage of Senator James Eastland, Senator of Mississippi, raising a gavel in front of photographers. US senate in session. Image of Thurgood Marshall speaking to Robert Kennedy. Image of Thurgood Marshall as a Solicitor General, walking on the steps of the United States Supreme Court in Washington DC. Image of Thurgood Marshall as the United States Solicitor General.

Date: 1953, May 17
Duration: 2 min 39 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675079007
United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower sends Airborne Federal troops to Little Rock Central High School to enforce desegregation policies in Arkansas

Crowd in front of Little Rock Central High School (2120 W Daisy L Gatson Bates Dr, Little Rock, AR 72202), protesting against desegregation called by a United States Court Order in 1957, during Civil Rights movement. 36th Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus at a press conference. National Guard in front of Little Rock Central High School. 101st Airborne Division Federal troops running. United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower speaks on enforcing Arkansas to respect court order and constitution. A U.S. Army Airborne Federal troop service man assists two African American students into a car. Airborne Federal troops assisting and guarding African-American students to get inside their car. Airborne Federal troops escort the car with African-American students on their way to school. 101st Airborne Division troops apprehend white teenagers and force others away at bayonet point. Airborne Federal troops escort an apprehended teenager. Students walk toward the school. An army truck passes by. Airborne Federal troops and federalized National Guard troops surrounding the Little Rock Central High School. Little Rock Central High School students crowd in front of the school as the troops apprehend them. President Dwight D. Eisenhower ends his speech with the words, “thus will be restored the image of America and all its parts as one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all”.

Date: 1957, September 24
Duration: 1 min 53 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675079009
Urban scenes of busy streets and noisy construction work in the United States

Wide view of skyline of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Various scenes of activity in busy urban cities: A street crowded with pedestrians walking. View of pile driver in operation. Construction worker uses a jackhammer. Pedestrians on their way to work cross a street. A police traffic officer, wearing sunglasses, directs traffic. A wrecking ball hits a brick wall. Man pushes a clothes trolley as he crosses a street. Man operates a loader. A man buys a pie through an automat door. An African-American man eats a hotdog sandwich. A man, wearing glasses, finishes his drink and buys a newspaper. A front end loader scoops and unload rubble from demolished building. Men entering a building through a glass revolving door. Buses pass by near a train. San Francisco Cable Car climbing up the road. A wrecking ball hits a brick wall. Close up of a woman’s eye open. A woman’s vital signs being examined by a doctor to study her stress level. She has a cuff on her arm, possibly for measurement of blood pressure.

Date: 1971
Duration: 1 min 15 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675079011
American voters from various backgrounds cast their votes during WWII

A secretary, Helen Shaw, registers before polling officials during the 1944 elections. A man and a woman sign a logbook before voting. Hollywood actor, Lewis Stone, searches for his name and signs a logbook before voting. A matron signs a logbook. A farmer, wearing a fedora, filling out a ballot. Hollywood actress signs a logbook before voting. Americans of different occupations line up to sign a logbook before voting. An elderly shipyard worker fills out his ballot. During World War II, British-American stand-up comedian and USO Entertainer, Bob Hope, searches for his name on the voters’ index and goes inside the polling station. Man closes curtains to vote. View of man’s feet while voting. View of woman’s feet slightly crossed. View of voters’ feet behind the curtains. Man casts his vote in metal containers inside polling station. Ballot inserted in glass ballot box. Man enters polling booth. Election volunteer tally using a machine. A woman casts her vote in Precinct 7-A. Newspaper says “Millions at polls First Texas, North Carolina Reports”. Shipyard workers on top deck of ship end a day’s work to head to the polling stations to vote, walking through ship structure on their way out.

Date: 1944, November 7
Duration: 1 min 40 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675079034
United States Works Progress Administration Federal Theater Project during Great Depression

Newsreel quote saying, “As 30,000 destitute show people clamor for work, a new firm, biggest and richest in the world, enters the theatrical business”. Office lady talking on the phone in her desk. American theatrical producer and director, Hallie Flanagan, discussing about the Federal Theater Project, a theater program established during the Great Depression as part of the New Deal economic program by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. A US Works Progress Administration Portable Theater truck drives in New York. Actors in blackface perform a Minstrel dance onstage. Posters for Federal Theater Project Minstrel shows. An audience watch a performance inside a theater. An actor stands up from a chair onstage. A man reads a Program. Federal Theater Project staff work inside their office. Federal Theater Project Backstage staff arrange stage design. Touring actors enter backstage. Wooden sign says “”The CCC Murder Mystery” by Miss Grace Hayward Presented by Federal Theater Project W.P.A. C.CC. co #5434 Wilderness VA. Wed. Night 7.30 All Welcome”. Actors perform “The CCC Murder Mystery” onstage. The audience, all young men, laugh at the scene where an actress offered a cigarette to the judge.

Date: 1936
Duration: 1 min 19 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675079041