Summary

4-H Club and Girl Scout representatives visit the White House; Pres. Dwight Eisenhower addresses an NAACP session

Source Sherman Grinberg
Newsreel Paramount
Negative # D-5959
Clip SR005131_01_01.mov
Date 3/1/1954
Title 4-H Club and Girl Scout representatives visit the White House; Pres. Dwight Eisenhower addresses an NAACP session
Description Title superimposed on the White House seen through barren trees, "The Camera Eye on Washington Events" / 3/9/1954: Mamie Eisenhower greets young girl scouts / photographers focus on the girls / Mamie stands with the girls, one with blond curls / CU, pan of the faces of the girls, (one is a Korean child) / VS the First Lady looks through a girl's bag ('Kits for Korea' program) / VS CU the bags and their contents, including needles and thread, etc. / VS of the group posing / a group of 4-H members, the girls in beanies and the boys wearing jackets emblazoned with shamrocks and four 'h's / Inside the crowded Oval Office, Pres. Dwight Eisenhower talks with the group / CU a girl in a pinstriped dress with a book, ("A Report to the Nation, Presented to The President of the United States, Dwight D Eisenhower, By the 4-H Clubs of America") / A wide shot of Eisenhower accepting the book and a quick shot of photographers; he shakes a girl's hand after she presents him with the book; Kenyon Giese of Loganville, Wisconsin gives Eisenhower handmade wallets for him and Mamie / the Seal of the President of the United States // 3/10/1954: An elevated shot of Eisenhower at a microphone on stage flanked by two columns / an audience of NAACP members / SOT Eisenhower states emphatically his record on civil rights / he receives a standing ovation
Personality Mamie Eisenhower, Dwight D Eisenhower
Country United States
City Washington DC

Keywords

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Korean people
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African-American people
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National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
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4-H Club
beanies
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books
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