| Summary: | This footage was transferred to tape from the original 16mm film. The following segments are included:
0:00:06: Civil rights demonstration at Brown Chapel AME Church and the George Washington Carver Homes in Selma, Alabama, possibly in September 1963. At the event, demonstrators were arrested, boarded onto a bus, and taken to the police department for processing. (Sheriff Jim Clark is visible among the law enforcement officers at the event.)
0:03:11: Freedom Riders in Montgomery, Alabama, in May 1961. The footage includes buses leaving the Trailways station on Lee Street; General Henry Graham and Governor John Patterson speaking at press conferences; and Sheriff Mac Sim Butler arresting Fred Shuttlesworth, Wyatt Tee Walker, Ralph Abernathy, and others at the Trailways station.
0:07:02: Harry M. Philpott inaugurated as president of Auburn University in September 1965. Philpott succeeded retiring president Ralph Draughon.
0:13:12: Original and new locations of Auburn University at Montgomery. The segment opens with shots of the building at 435 Bell Street in downtown Montgomery, Alabama, and then switches to construction work at the new campus on the old McLemore plantation in the eastern part of the city. Classes were first offered at the Bell Street location (formerly the University of Alabama Montgomery Center) in the fall of 1968, and the school moved to the completed campus in the fall of 1971. The footage is silent.
0:19:20: Governor Jimmy Carter speaking at a luncheon in Montgomery sponsored by the Council for the Advancement of Private Colleges in Alabama on June 19, 1973.
0:22:53: Governors Jimmy Carter and George Wallace speaking at the Southern Governors Conference in Point Clear, Alabama in September 1973.
0:25:59: Governor Albert Brewer at the Samford University commencement in Birmingham, Alabama, on August 24, 1968. Brewer delivered the commencement address and received an honorary degree from the school. The segment is introduced by a reporter, possibly Bill Whipple of WSFA.
0:29:33: President John F. Kennedy and Vice President Lyndon Johnson visiting Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, on September 11, 1962. The footage is silent.
0:31:11: Groundbreaking for the Jones Bluff Lock and Dam in Lowndes County, Alabama, on April 11, 1966. Senator Lister Hill, General Jackson Graham, and Dr. Frank Rose spoke at the event.
0:38:18: Aftermath of a tornado that hit Brent, Alabama, on May 27, 1973. The storm killed seven people and destroyed the town.
0:48:25: Senator Edward Kennedy visiting George Wallace at the Governor's Mansion in Montgomery, Alabama, on September 22, 1972.
0:51:39: Vice President Spiro Agnew visiting George Wallace at the Governor's Mansion in Montgomery, Alabama, on October 11, 1972.
0:55:33: Presidential candidate Jimmy Carter visiting George Wallace at the Governor's Mansion in Montgomery, Alabama, on June 12, 1976. Wallace, after dropping out of the race, endorsed Carter and released to him the delegates he had won in several Democratic primaries in May.
1:00:12: Governor George Wallace and President Richard Nixon at "Honor America Day" in Huntsville, Alabama, on February 18, 1974.
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