Exterior view of the David T. Howard School in Old Fourth Ward (present address 551 John Wesley Dobbs Avenue.) This is the elementary school Martin Luther King Jr attended. Men enter school building. Sign on "Colored Only" taxi parked outside reads “Colored Only Atlanta Car for Hire Ass’n Inc. Member”. A Black woman walks down a stone stairway at a Fourth Ward apartment building formerly at the corner of Hilliard St and Irwin St NE in Atlanta. Closeup of community water pump. Foundations for Interstate 85 overpass under construction in background. This is during the segregated Jim Crow era in the south.
African American children playing at an apartment complex in what is today the Old Fourth Ward of Atlanta. (Now a large vacant lot at Hilliard St and Irwin St NE) A Black girl rides a tricycle while a young Black boy sits on a stone step. A Black boy nibbling on a chicken bone. Another boy approaches and smiles at the camera. A Black girl wearing sunglasses smiles. A Black little girl leans on her brother. A toddler stands along a path. An African American mother carrying her baby stands beside drying laundry on a terrace. A boy drinks water from the community water pump. Bridge abutment for Interstate 85 overpass construction seen in background. Theater posters on wall read “81 Theatre Sun – Mon – Tue May 22 – 23 -24 The Defiant Ones with Sidney Poitier and Tony Curtis Plus Inside the Mafia Regular Prices”. A Black man and a son look out a window. Man waves from a window.
People at the entrance of Carnegie Library of Atlanta (126 Carnegie Way, Atlanta, GA,) A man walks out of library front entrance. Front entrance inscription reads “Virgil”, “Carnegie” and “Dante”. A man and a girl walk out of the entrance. Entrance inscription reads “Library”. Street sign reads “Forsyth St. Peachtree St. N.W.”. Women crossing the street in front of Carnegie Library of Atlanta, demolished in 1977.
Orange trees growing in an orchard in California during the Great Depression. Walnut trees in a grove. Mountains surround a bean field. Clouds forming before a storm. Wheat stalks blowing in the wind. Lightning and thunder during a thunderstorm. Torrential rain floods a farmland. Soil erosion from flooding seen on a hillside. A farmer walks through land severely damaged by floods after a storm. A farmer and his wife survey the damage done to their orange grove after flooding. Various farmlands damaged by soil erosion. Muddy topsoil oozing and collapsing during heavy rain. Rain washing away the topsoil of land. Gullies forming from torrential rain. Topsoil being washed away in creeks. Rapids in creeks during heavy rain, pouring into rivers. Flood washing away an uprooted tree. Soil erodes from side of a river. Aerial view of topsoil pouring into the Pacific Ocean along the California Coast.
Views of well maintained farmland throughout the United States. Narrator emphasizes the importance of "conservation farming" to protect land.
Aerial view of The Church of the Good Shepherd and its parish house (155 Wyllys St, Hartford, CT 06106, United States) during the 1936 Hartford flood. Aerial view of The Bulkeley Bridge nearly covered by the Connecticut River. Aerial view of men standing on top of gas storage tanks as they fill them with water to keep them from floating away. Women and children eating at a shelter and picking out clothes. A baby in a bed.
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