Moving Image:Negro Colleges in Wartime

Negro Colleges in Wartime is a short film from ca. 1944 released on 16mm. It is held in the Prelinger Archives collection.

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.

Negro Colleges in Wartime
Produced by	U.S. Office of War Information, Bureau of Motion Pictures
Production companies	U.S. Office of War Information, Bureau of Motion Pictures
Distributed by	U.S. Office of War Information, Bureau of Motion Pictures
Release date	ca. 1944
Running time	8:16
Language	English

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