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Civil Rights Sampler:
Brief eye opening teasers of Civil Rights news broadcasts from the late 1950's and early 1960's. The Archival Television Audio collection contains the full clips of more than 241 seperate peerless television and radio CIVIL RIGHTS air checks (1956 - 1968). Running Time: 5 minutes |
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Jerry Immel: Accredited by Guiness World Records, welcome to Archival Television Audio, Incorporated. A peerless T.V. soundtrack archive preserving the audio from television's first three decades the 1950s, 60s, and 70s: the golden and silver age of television.
Nov. 1, 1956 (Douglas Edwards and the News)
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Douglas Edwards: Good evening, everybody, coast to coast. Douglas Edwards reporting. The negro citizens
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The Reverend Martin Luther King, one of the
leaders in the boycott, will have one of the major voices in
that decision. Here is what he has to say in advance of the
meeting.
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Martin Luther King: Naturally, we are deeply gratified to hear this momentous decision rendered by the United States Supreme Court...
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Sept. 23, 1957 (NBC News with Bob Wilson)
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Bob Wilson: (fade in) ...snarling mob and it made a terrifying spectacle today in Little Rock, Arkansas. There was a lean, gray-haired man in the crowd outside Central High School, a pretty sweet-faced woman, and most of them were like that, between two and three hundred people.
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The kind generally thought of as respectable citizens, good folks to have for neighbors. When they saw five negro boys and three negro girls walking towards the side door of the school. A savage fury took hold of the crowd...
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July 12, 1960 (CBS Convention Coverage... Walter Cronkite)
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Bernard Eismann: (fade in) ...this day the strongest civil rights plank ever written by either political party. There was severe opposition from southern states and it's believed that a dissenting document, dissenting on the matter of civil rights as well as on the right to work law will be will be issued within the hour. Now back to Walter Cronkite at the anchor studio.
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Walter Cronkite: And with the approval by the platform committee overwhelmingly as Bernard Eismann inaudible) told you of a plank, uh, strongly in favor of a, uh, federal, uh, federal use, uh, federal enforcement of all anti-segregation and anti-discrimination laws. There is every indication that we will get a floor fight tomorrow with the minority...
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May 20, 1961 (CBS News with Harry Reasoner)
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Harry Reasoner: And Harry Reasoner with the late news.
Harry Reasoner: Today the place was the quiet town of Montgomery Alabama, suddenly noisy and sick with the hate and blood of a mob. A mob that brought the strongest words and orders from Washington since the day the troops went to Little Rock...
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Harry Reasoner: (fade in) ...A group of people of young people of two races who had been in Birmingham, Alabama were able to get on a bus today. And they went on south to Montgomery, capital of the state and the cradle of the Confederacy. Birmingham police escorted the bus out of town.
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State highway patrolmen rode with it on the highway and a plane circled overhead. At Montgomery city detectives met the bus. But when the freedom riders got off at the depot and a mob began a riot, there wasn't a policeman to be seen. There were from three hundred to a thousand whites in the area of the bus depot but as usual in these things only a few dozen of them actually engaged in violence.
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Before the police finally broke up the crowd with tear gas they beat and injured at least twenty persons of both races and both sexes, including this white seminary student from Wisconsin who was with the traveling group. He sat unattended for a long time. Somebody asked Police Commissioner Leo Sullivan why he didn't help them...
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Dec. 30, 1956 (Big News of 1956 with Charles Collingwood)
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Charles Collingwood: CBS news presents the big news of '56. Dramatic highlights from ten top news stories of the year. Your reporter is Charles Collingwood.
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Charles Collingwood: Our major news story this year is a continuing one. The story that dates back to the Supreme Court decision on May 17th 1954. Which rules that racial segregation in public schools is unconstitutional. Wiped off the book the doctrine of separate but equal school facilities for negro children.
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That's when the story began, it's impossible to see when it will end.
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Angry flames fanned out over many parts of the South during 1956...
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