Summary

Negro Colleges in Wartime

Source Archive Films by Getty Images
Title: Negro Colleges in Wartime
File Number: PA-0117 Beta SP; AFP-25BM 16mm
Color: B W
Type: Educational Industrial
Subjects: Booker T Washington (statue)
Description: Negro Colleges in Wartime Needed for war production, African-Americans are shown being trained and educated at traditionally Black colleges African-American soldiers and sailors in uniform on campus Aircraft flying classes African-American students and scientists in laboratories African-American women taking an automotive repair class are shown changing a car tire Unusual footage of African-American women in laboratories, engineering study and other science technical fields also farm management African-Americans involved in the study of agricultural production and animal husbandry are shown Study of meteorology, the chemistry of explosives, medicine, radio communications, surveying and topography
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