Xavier University, America's only catholic college for African American youth, in New Orleans, Louisiana. View of run down slum and tenement areas in the city of New Orleans in the 1930s Great Depression time frame. African American citizen moves outside the houses. A woman walks on a street with a bucket. Clothes hang from a string. Children standing on a road. Nuns pray in a church. A sign: 'Xavier' on a building. Exterior of a college building. African American college students seated outside the building read books. They leave the college building. African American man talks as he climbs down the stairs.
Education for African American college students at Xavier University, America's only catholic college for African American youth in New Orleans, Louisiana. Students in a library: They read books for study and research. They deposit the books to the librarian. In the Department of Music: the students learn music. A teacher teaches them and plays a piano. The choir students sing.
African American students at Xavier University, America's only catholic college for African American youth, in New Orleans, Louisiana. In the Department of Home Economics: girls stir a mixture on a stove. The girls pour a liquid into the container on the stove. They stir the mixture.
Education of African American college students at Xavier University, America's only catholic college African American youth, in New Orleans, Louisiana. Extra curricular activities: A girl comes on a stage and speaks during a performance. Students perform a play on the stage. Girls in modern dresses stand and talk.
Education for African American students at Xavier University, America's only catholic college for African American youth, in New Orleans, Louisiana. Students walk in pairs and girls hold bouquets. The annual senior ball, with its Queen of Honor, is one of the social highlights of the college year. The students dance in pairs. Musical instruments are played in the band accompanying dancing at the annual senior ball.
Xavier University's athletic program brings African American students into contact with other schools and also develops physical skill and high ideals of sportsmanship in New Orleans, Louisiana. The student athletes leap over obstacles. They run on a racing track. One of the students does physical exercise. Ralph Metcalfe, a track coach and a former Olympic star, at the university. He guides the students sitting on the ground. Some students run while others sit. A student tries to leap across a string strung across two poles and succeeds in the second attempt.
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