This program documents race relations in Washington D.C. before and after desegregation. Based around contemporary interviews with Harold Lewis and Dr. Montague Cobb, the program makes extensive use of archival material. There are many references to Howard University and various groups such as the NAACP.
DO NOT USE Archival photograph rural black children walking down a section of train track.
Archival footage of a massive locomotive; train pulls from hanger of a rail yard; section of track shifting at an intersection; engineer in silhouette against white BG.
DO NOT USE Archival photograph old passenger coach traveling a rural highway.
DO NOT USE Map of Washington D.C. circa1920s. Program Title.
DO NOT USE Various archival photographs of Washington in the 1920s are shown. Shots show a city street crammed with cars and trolleys, black children playing in a schoolyard and white teenagers eating at a diner.
Footage of male African American students and professors of Howard University. Shots show students on the steps of a building, laboratory experiment, professors reviewing papers, signing documents.
Interview with Harold Lewis.
DO NOT USE C/A photo shows the home he grew up in South East Heights. Two other archival shots show different stages of his life.
Interview with Dr. Montague Cobb.
DO NOT USE Archival photos show various stages of his life, including a shot of him teaching an anatomy class at Howard University. An archival photograph shows Dunbar High School in Washington D.C., in addition to other shots of the school.
Interview with Harold Lewis. Interview with Dr. Montague Cobb. Interview with Harold Lewis.
Footage shows the cadets of Dunbar high school marching in a parade.
Interview with Harold Lewis.
DO NOT USE Archival photo Dunbar student at chalkboard , working out geometry problem. Photos black students in shop class, using wood cut tools in a carpentry class.
Archival footage of Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois.
DO NOT USE Archival photos black man shinning the shoes of a white man, a black dentist working on a patient's teeth, students at library at Howard University, a black secretary typing, black mother reading to her children. Archival photo thousands of KKK members parading down Pennsylvania Avenue from the Capitol Building, many carrying the American Flag.
Interview with Harold Lewis. Interview with Dr. Montague Cobb.