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Police and U.S. military patrol streets to control the crowds and extinguish burning auto during race riots in Detroit Michigan

Detroit Race Riot in Detroit, Michigan in June 1943, during World War 2, and early in Civil Rights movement. Police disperse crowd from the street. Army patrol walks down the street in section of city. Two soldiers in front of the "HH Bowles Radio Service" store, with paint marked sign "colored" written on the store window, consistent with Jim Crow segregation practices, to identify it as an African American run business and discourage whites from patronizing it. Five U.S. soldiers holding light machine guns patrol on the street. Soldiers cross street. White youths exit from patrol wagon or paddy wagon and appear to be joking around. The youths pose in front of the patrol wagon. Police bus being driven. Views of U.S. Army tent camp in a field in Detroit. Firemen spray water on a burning automobile set on fire during the racially motivated riot. Smoke all around the burned vehicle. People stand on street and watch.

Date: 1943, June
Duration: 1 min 33 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675032040
Paul Robeson, an American singer, actor and political activist gives a speech in New York City during his 46th birthday event.

Famous African American singer Paul Robeson, (Paul LeRoy Bustill Robeson) in New York City during a celebration event of Robeson's 46th birthday and the anniversary of the Council on African Affairs. The event is at the 17th Regiment Armory in New York at 34th Street and Park Avenue. Paul Robeson gives a speech and excerpts of the speech are heard. He speaks about his life as an African American in America. He says that he is proud to be an African American American. He speaks about African American people and their progress looking to the future. He expresses his interest in knowing and appreciating different people, their languages and culture. He talks of the struggle of people all over the world to attain freedom. He speaks out against the growth of fascism in the world (speech is during World War 2). Lit candles are seen on the stage in the foreground and flags in the background.

Date: 1944, April 16
Duration: 5 min 37 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675032046
German bombing campaign against England and British air defenses during World War II

Formation of German Dornier Do 17 bombers headed for England in World War 2. View of German crew members in cockpit of bomber. Closeup of German Messerschmitt bf 109 fighter aircraft in flight. German fighter shoots down a barrage balloon that bursts into flames and falls from the sky. British gun crews on the coast firing 3.7 inch antiaircraft guns. Flak bursts around a German Heinkel He 111 bomber. Formation of He 111 bombers dropping bombs. German bombardier bending over bomb sight inside a bomber. View of ground below. Bombardier hitting bomb release control. View through forward canopy of bombs falling from the aircraft. German bombs striking and exploding in England. Smoke rising from explosions and fires. German aircrew pleased with results. German Ju 87 Stuka dive bombers peeling and diving with their characteristic whines as they drop bombs on waterfront targets in England. British Royal Air Force Spitfire fighters rising to engage the German aircraft. Britons on ground look up to watch dogfights at high altitude overhead, marked by contrails in the sky. British gun camera footage of German warplanes being shot down. Wreckage of destroyed German warplanes. A flight of three spitfires flying overhead. Firemen directing streams of water on burning buildings in London. British citizens clearing rubble. Local Air Raid wardens Antiaircraft Gun crew on a British ship talk of the German aircraft they've shot down.

Date: 1941
Duration: 3 min 37 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675032048
Convoys of Allied ships en route to France with supplies for Alllied Forces, are attacked by German submarines and bombers, in World War II

Ships carrying supplies to Allied forces in France, during World War 2. The deck of one is filled with Lockheed Hudson light bombers displaying British markings. Views of ships in the convoy. Change of scene to Adolf Hitler looking over maps with General Alfred Jodl, Chief of Staff of the German Army and other Generals of the high command. German submarine (U-boat) being launched. German U-boat crews being instructed in hit and run tactics in a classroom. Brief view of map showing disposition of Nazi U-boats to attack allied shipping. Allied convoy seen in aerial view from aircraft overhead. A formation of German Heinkel He 111 bombers seeking Allied convoys to attack. View of crew member at his station inside a bomber. View from a bomber descending to examine an Allied ship, making a low pass over several in the convoy, and ostensibly radioing U-boats to attack with torpedoes. Glimpse of a Heinkel He 111 climbing and a flight of them in formation.

Date: 1941
Duration: 2 min 12 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675032049
German submarines attack British ships in the English channel during World War II.

German submarines in the English Channel during World War 2, attacking British ships and North American aid ships to Britain. A u-boat submarine gradually disappears in water. A depth gauge meter inside the submarine. German Navy crew men at work inside the submarine and views of interior compartment and controls of German submarine. View of ships from the periscope of the submerged submarine. German submarine fires torpedoes as British ships are attacked by the submarines some of which are on the surface and some are underwater. Sailors at a submarine attack a ship. New ships are launched in the Atlantic from American and Canadian ship building ports. A ship named "Challenge" is christened and launched down skids. Explosions in the sea as Allied ships drop depth charges and hunt German submarines. Sailors observe through binoculars from a ship. A man drinks from a mug. Cargo convoy ships in the Atlantic including one named "King William" supplying the British.

Date: 1941
Duration: 3 min 34 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675032050
Germans prepare for a direct invasion of England, and British sailors drop naval mines in the English Channel for coastal protection.

Germany's preparations for invasion of the United Kingdom in World War 2. German soldiers study papers at a desk and prepare for direct invasion over England. The soldiers observe back lighted reconnaissance photos with a magnifying glass and observe forms of ships. A German pilot inside an aircraft in flight low near the coast of Dover, Portsmouth, and Plymouth. A German torpedo boat, or Schnellboots aka S-boot or S-boat, at sea running at high speed. German sailors and officers on the deck of a Schnellboots torpedo boat. German Army paratroopers in training for jumps. German paratroopers jump from simulated aircraft at low height, and hanging from wires, as they practice landing and rolling. German paratroopers at the open door of an aircraft and jumping in a line from the aircraft in flight. A number of parachutes in the air. A sketch shows the layers of British defensive positions from the coast inward. British flying boat over water. Gun turret of flying boat in action. Allied signal man soldier using portable signal lamp. Sailor on ship using large signal lamp. A British ship in the rough North Sea during a squall storm. British sailors in mine laying operation drop large round naval contact mines with protruding Hertz horns visible, into the sea. Booms with steel submarine nets in front of a British harbor to catch submarines and surface craft.

Date: 1941
Duration: 2 min 40 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675032051