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130 hours of daily newsreel from May 1956 to September 1959 touches many subjects in the civil rights struggle and other themes of the period. Included are stories featuring the following personalities and issues.

· Martin Luther King, Jr. Birmingham, near assassination

· Ghana's independence

· Althea Gibson

· Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.

· Thurgood Marshall

· Little Rock school crisis of Fall 1957

· Little Rock legal battle in Fall 1958

· Ku Klux Klan rallies and other racist pronouncements

· Jackie Robinson

· school integration crises in Clinton, Tennessee in 1956-57 and in Virginia schools in 1958-9

· Fred Shuttlesworth

· Prayer Pilgrimage to Washington, D.C. in May 1957

· Congressional attempt to pass a civil rights bill in 1958

· Wilt Chamberlain

· lynching in Poplarville, Mississippi in 1959

· Roy Wilkins

· general school integration problems

· housing integration problems

· beating of black man by white racists

· Plus, many other news stories from 1956-59

Newsreels, 1956-1959

1956

23) Herman Talmadge of Georgia will run for Senate speaks re courts and desegregation—against Supreme Court directives as undermining Southern way of life anti-civil rights

17) House Committee on Un-American Activities just voted to cite Paul Robeson for contempt of Congress HUAC leader speaks blasts Robeson's attitude and testimony

4) Southern governor speaks re effect of Democratic platform and candidate in the South

28) U.S. Attorney General Herbert Brownell re educational defeat speaks re segregated schools rejects Powell amendment compelling desegregation Brownell favors deliberate speed

22) Harriman in North Carolina to sell himself as acceptable to Southerners mentions Brown vs. Board of Education as "law of the land" and explains the decision

16) Sports Athelia Gibson wins tennis championship (S)

19) Ku Klux Klan cross-burning man speaks to KKK before flaming cross

32) Southern Democratic governors unity meeting governor of Georgia says civil rights plank will destroy the Democratic party

7) Adlai Stevenson re how convention is shaping up confident but does not know on what ballot he will win nomination asked re civil rights plank of Democratic platform backs Supreme Court decision as law to be followed

14) Chicago: Hubert Humphrey arrives sign wavers Segue to HHH press conference where he is asked re relationship with Stevenson he supports Stevenson's civil rights position

15) Chicago: Kentucky governor "Happy" Chandler arrives critical of Stevenson's liberal civil rights position he does not think Adlai can win

2) Harriman re civil rights plank in Democratic platform prefers Republican position clowns in the streets of Chicago

6) Chicago picketers demand Negro rights rip Richard Daley caricaturist draws delegates pictures pretty blonde shaves old Democrat Harry Truman in audience speaks—he will support whomever convention nominates (but he favors Harriman ) HST says "Democrats will get together and kick out that gang in Washington that's robbing the country." John Kennedy at podium

9) Duke Ellington promotional film hypes Duke Time magazine cover for Duke

16) Democratic convention civil rights speech by Speaker McCormack who endorses Supreme Court ruling blasts interference in its enforcement condemns Republican Party Senator Herbert Lehmann calls it "America's problem" says "discrimination is intolerable" Truman speaks to convention from the viewing stands

14) Mr. Ritter re what will happen to Arlington, Virginia public schools if the state withholds funds because school integrates feels community would support the schools even without state aid

16) Women’s track meet woman from Penn State wins broad jump black woman shot put and discus (Willie White?)

35) Black lawyer named Reynolds unable to enroll black children in Mansfield High School today, thwarted by white crowd will try next week

36) Ku Klux Klan cross burning w hooded men (S)

37) Political News: convention of Constitutional Party in Texas Confederate flags, no U.N., no taxes

38) Virginia governor Thomas B. Stanley claims almost unanimous approval of his actions says popular feelings "do not permit the mixing of the races in our schools she is introducing bill into General Assembly banning funds to public schools that integrate

4) Ike press conference: on white mobs and school integration he says government cannot just move in unless local and state authorities cannot control situation; c) on integration, "it is difficult through law and force to change a man's heart"—still favors persuasion—we must all help defeat extremists on both sides

12) Segregationists riot John Kasper interviewed re Clinton, Tennessee will not name his supporters in Congress

15) Man from White Citizens Council in Washington D.C. makes statement from his bookstore Mr. Johnson is anti-integration

23) Mr. Britton once favored segregation in Anderson County School she is principal of Clinton [Tennessee] High School and is now neutral on integration!

26) One black child sits at rear of schoolroom as 12 white kids are up front arrest Kasper in Clinton (S)

27) National Guard patrols Clinton, Tennessee (S) 9556

32) Kasper at Hotel Andrew Johnson (S) 91156

17) Ku Klux Klan rally in Alabama women and children also in robes leader makes angry speech deploring onset of integration and mongrel race cross burns electric-light crosses on roofs of KKK autos

20) Mrs. DePatte, a white woman with her black child (Carrie mae DePatte) asked re school her daughter has had no trouble in France, Switzerland, England, Germany—now apparently having problems in USA child is articulate

27) integrated school (S)

1. Ike with mayor of Louisville permissive plan for school integration there mostly mixed schools in Louisville mayor stresses tact and care required

2. 6) Rep. Davis hearings re slippage of U.S. educational level she's white Southerner and seems intent upon blaming slippage on integration of blacks into white schools

7) Tennessee: Kasper in Clinton meets people and speaks re freedom of speech

14) Congressional Probe: Rep. Davis committee outside a black man named Jenkins explains pupil disparity blames overcrowded schools—"making the best of a bad situation" too little incentive for black kids because opportunities are so limited home and integration are helping (92556)

39) Baseball World Series as Jackie Robinson and Carl Furrillo hit home runs for Dodgers (S)

44) World series at Ebbets Field (S)

46) World Series: Yankees win (S)

4) Don Larsen and Sal Maglie after Larsen pitched perfect baseball game Casey Stengel poses with Larsen too

8) World Series as Yankees beat Dodgers

10) World Series—another game (S)

13) Yankee dressing room after baseball World Series triumph Stengel sums it up Jackie Robinson of Dodgers congratulates Yogi Berra speaks as do Yogi and other Yankees

16) Yankees take series more silent footage (S)

25) Big Springs, Texas hearing re school integration black man quizzes white school official re latter's attempts to thwart court orders

26) Report From Washington: Rep. Adam Clayton Powell says he is supporting Ike in election lauds Ike on civil rights while he is critical of Stevenson on civil rights feels he has been snubbed by Democrats (101256)

7) Tokyo: Brooklyn Dodgers visit Japan Robinson, Snider, etc. (S)

14) Centerville woman who will not let her daughter attend public school explains why she is being educated at home not worried that she has little contact with other kids little Mary says she does not want to go to school "a terrible waste of time and a bother"

13) Montgomery: Martin Luther King speaks recommending end of bus boycott—non-segregated busses crowd applauds—but in a few days

5) Montgomery: car pooling then King reacts warmly to Supreme Court decision re public transportation

22) Ku Klux Klan holds rally in Montgomery" We Believe in White Supremacy" says printed paper many Klansmen, three crosses burn leader speaks against school integration (112456)

7) Hubert Humphrey proposing Congressional rule closing open end debate and forcing a decision wants civil liberty-civil rights legislation wants a "rule of reason" in Congress

15) Clinton, Tennessee high school intimidation of blacks principal Brittan interviewed re school troubles feels U.S. government has made his job very difficult to enforce court order

17) National Headline: mayoral election in Clinton, Tennessee black students walking to school some white boys arrested interview Baptist minister beaten by racist white boys

24) Clinton, Tennessee high school to be reopened school superintendent excepts orderly reopening—says yesterday election showed people are for law and order

31) Clinton, Tennessee police department arrests white men and boys (S)

32) Clinton, Tennessee arrests made at night Board of Education spokesman says we are glad U.S. assistance is of great help school will open Monday

44) Republican senator wants rules change in the way Congress passes bills he wants civil rights legislation passed critical of filibuster advocates for obstructionism

2) black children enter Clinton, Tennessee high school principal gives lecture in auditorium (S)

19) Alabama: Martin Luther King, Jr. speaks in Montgomery church re nonviolent protest will go back to busses, "we must now move from protest to reconciliation"

43) Martin Luther King Jr. speaks to congregation about acting right on the busses—no pushing, no bragging sees Montgomery as now in a position "to map out the future of integration"

10) Alabama state secretary Sam Englehauer, also head of White Citizen Council at home with Christmas tree and kids wants white to boycott the busses feels court will open door further to racial accommodation remember hatefully Justices Reeves and Johnson laments the Montgomery decision concludes "have no fear, the right and the white will win"

21) Senator Paul Douglas: "we mean business, we're in this fight to the end" to change rules of the Senate says that unless we change rules now, we may as well kiss goodbye to civil rights changes because filibuster will stifle it Senator Irving Ives (R) of New York then adds his support for such change

23) blacks board Montgomery bus sit at front and rear King lieutenant Fred Shuttlesworth speaks to camera discusses riding strategy

24) Alabama National Citizens Council spokesman says we will no longer tolerate politicians who back peddle before federal government and the "negras" says we will draw line and fight on this line of segregated busses feels the negras are moving toward helping "the Communists and the one worlders and those who would bring about the mongrelization of the races in this nation" claims our religion dictates to us such a position to the last ounce of our blood

29) Birmingham: blacks board busses interview city official Mr. Lindbergh who will continue to support local and state laws separating the races—will arrest whites or coloreds who break the law—still no federal court ruling outlawing such state and local laws

30) Fred Shuttlesworth press statement supporting successful integrated bus riding begun yesterday says all problems can be settled in the courts

41) Herbert Brownell makes summary statement re civil rights accomplishments now that 1957 approaches—but much to be done mentions voting rights as goal for 1957

1957

4) Knights of the Ku Klux Klan rally in Bessemer, Alabama one auto has cross on its roof lighted by bulbs leader speaks of "Niggerism" and Communism blasts Ike and Nixon and Supreme Court as anti-Christian oak trees, fishes, beasts do not integrate cross burns

6) Paul Douglas convene meeting of senators wanting Senate rules change Clinton Anderson speaks re bipartisanship on proposed rules change excepts vote on Friday

18) at Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem, Rev. Adam Clayton Powell in passionate sermon re the finish of segregation Hubert Humphrey speaks of ending the filibuster Fred Shuttlesworth speaks angrily of action in the South and blasts Southern whites

19) Hubert Humphrey on the loss of rule change proposal—have doubled the vote since 1953we are going to proceed with civil rights legislation Senator Richard Russell defends pro-filibuster vote

27) Ike is given the George Washington Carver award for contributing to racial betterment—black man and woman stand with him Segue to Dulles at laying of cornerstone for new State Department building (S)

6) Hubert Humphrey in his office speaks re upcoming state of the union address pleased that Ike in the past has agreed with Democrats on certain measures wants Ike to push for civil rights liberal values, too—Ike will get what he wants if his requests are liberal

26) man says integration will never be a success in Georgia feels courts will not change way of thinking and feeling in Georgia" the Negro has a world of opportunity in our state" segue to black Atlanta man re integrating busses there—will take nonviolent route

27) Atlanta: blacks in church prepare for integration of busses but are arrested by police—enter Fulton County Jail even jail has segregated visiting days black leader from No. 26 above leaves after a day in jail—will stay off busses now until court decides

31) Alabama: black preacher from Nos. 26, 27 above says no liquor—this is appeal for nonviolent protest

34) Montgomery, Alabama lawmen press conference announce arrest of man who shot into an integrated bus on December 31—re bombings, there are 7 or 8 white men in prison—many have confessed to bombings

36) Martin Luther King, Jr. and other black leaders enter Montgomery Police Department police chief tells press that the arrested black men can be released if they make bond

9) Brownell discusses civil rights legislation being proposed by Ike need tools to enforce rights, especially the right to vote

6) Attorney General Brownell before Congressional committee explaining administration proposal for civil rights law—says federal government must have the power to act to make Constitution the supreme law of the land—mentions Emmet Till case, mentions Montgomery where blacks have been shot at riding busses—feels anti-lynching law now would be diverting—he wants Ike's middle of road bill

13) Brownell before Congressional committee jousts with Sam Ervin regarding U.S. judicial system—Ervin feels civil rights law would undermine states rights

26) Roy Wilkins before Congressional committee re civil rights bill says patience is running out—calls the perversion of law as applied to blacks "an obscene comedy" asks if there really is a United States of American with a Constitution

23) Africa: Nixon and party at Ghanaian independence Etta Moten Barnett is there as is Ralph Bunche (3657) S

24) Detroit: black woman had windows broken by white crowd because she moved into neighborhood police did not respond

33) Ghana independence ceremonies boat races, dancing, fireworks Segue to Harold Macmillan TV address congratulating the Ghanaians and the British for preparing them for this day (S)

37) Many black adults enter courtroom swear oath (S)

38) McClellan committee Kennedy quizzes Teamster secretary-29) Wayne Morse inspects poverty area of Washington D.C. in black homes and vacant lots says Easter and scripture make us our brothers keeper—but in Washington D.C. we are not doing a good job of it resolved as member of the District committee to get more funds to do a better job

11) Black man fired as Ike's caddy explains how he helped Ike's golf game

25) Black home owner packing up as flood water rise

2) England: Ku Klux Klan comes to Great Britain interview Mr. Brockwell who comments on KKK propaganda "Aryan Primacy" pamphlet from Horace Sherman Miller of Texas that attacks blacks, Jews, Catholics, even Dwight Eisenhower "as Christian equalizer Brockwell does not think KKK has chance in Britain—even with influx of West Indians and Africans Segue to Texas home of Horace Sherman Mille—who sits in bed typing Miller says he mails to Britain "because they're our kind of people'" says KKK is "for a better civilization, a better United States, a better Texas"

16) Texas: black student withdrawn from University of Texas opera production she is shown dejected racist state legislator then justifies her exclusion, praising Texas' black colleges for having trained her for two years, then saying that her minority at UT should not impose itself upon the white majority something that is not socially acceptable

26) Martin Luther King, Jr. arrives at Lully Baptist Church explains why he is journeying to Washington "to raise the conscience of the nation in terms of civil rights "to demonstrate black unity—civil rights is imperative right to vote

2) meeting of platform committee of Union of Electrical Radio & Machinists" Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom" speaker rebukes immoral and illegal unionists as "not a good union member Martin Luther King, Jr. then comes to rostrum King rebukes Communists who might be supporting the movement—only welcome those who believe in the Constitution of the United States

7) People In The News: blacks pour into Washington D.C. for "Prayer Pilgrimage" site is Lincoln Memorial King, Adam Clayton Powell seen (51757) S

5) Montgomery: bus boycott story county court house—white men and then Abernathy and Martin Luther King, Jr. enter (S)

27) Martin Luther King, Jr. and Abernathy pose with Nixon, labor Secretary Mitchell—good King close-ups (S)

32) Hubert Humphrey speaks re civil rights bill before Congress says a bill to protect the right to vote is "as American as the Fourth of July and the Statue of Liberty—and I can't see what the fuss is all about"

35) Senator Sam Ervin speaks of civil right debate—says it is too broad a bill, not just voting rights—will infringe on state's rights says it instills in the Attorney General the powers of a commissar in a totalitarian state

40) Knowland wants civil rights bill brought to floor of Senate because Judiciary Committee is tardy willing to extend life of Congress to do it

17) Political Spotlight: Ike speaks to noisy Republican convention chanting "We Want Ike" defines Republicanism as concern with every last American regardless of his religion or color of skin

23) Senator Richard Russell blasts civil rights bill—he has demanded it be submitted to American people in a referendum says it really gives Attorney General power to integrate at the point of a bayonet—feels "one of the most tragic conditions that this country has ever seen" would result... "there would be confusion, and chaos, and bloodshed" if Attorney General moved rapidly to enforce integration in South

29) Knowland speaks outside White House re pending civil rights bill expects filibuster and prolonged Senate session

32) Senator Stennis says "we are going to defeat this bill" filibuster against civil rights bill sees bill acceptable if harsh features are amended--especially against "the method of going at this problem" Segue to Senator Clifford Case who says the civil rights bill "is based on what is right" relates its purposes to foreign policy of USA—cannot run the show at home with regard to what people in the world think of us--it is not politics or primarily politics dreads filibuster, calls it "a barbaric kind of thing"..."utterly ridiculous and degrading"

37) Senator Richard Russell interviewed re civil rights bill—sees national referendum constitutionally possible says compromise is possible if possible to "mitigate the very vicious provisions of this cunningly contrived bill"

2) Athelia Gibson wins Wimbeldon tennis sports (has sound) 7657

8) Senator Paul Douglas says civil rights bill is only intended to assure right to vote—but Negroes mainly in the South are being denied it--feels if passes, other wrongs will adjust themselves—"we're in the trenches until that time if necessary"—until Xmas if need be Segue to Senator Richard Russell who feels bill really is meant to integrate the races in the South—in all schools and amusement centers

10) Kasper of Clinton, Tennessee and Ku Klux Klan is on trial criticizes Judge Taylor hearing his case—likens him to dictators in Communist states—defendant already cited for contempt once, and a second count is pending

11) Senator Richard Neuberger re civil rights bill—feels it will pass, but against filibuster just to delay he will stay in a tent and cot to stay at Senate if necessary he gets into cot to show it works

13) Knowland has informed Ike that civil rights fight could last from four to eight weeks says Ike understands other legislation will be delayed until this is disposed of

25) New York City: parade for Athelia Gibson down main streets (S)

27) Senator Russell outside White House after meeting with Ike says he and Ike do not agree on basic philosophy involved Russell says it must be modified to be enacted—threatens to stay here until December

31) Athelia Gibson deplanes SAS in New York to meet her parents after Wimbeldon victory interviewed about her feelings—asked if her victory might inspire other Negro boys and girls to enter tennis—she hopes so

42) Senator Sam Ervin opposed to Attorney General to becoming "the legal Czar" of the nation—cites other shortcomings second senator urges Ike to take firm position on the bill

46) Senator thinks Senate will pass good civil rights bill within a month—says all noise so far has come from opponents, now we shall be heard Senator Stennis says amendments necessary to have it passed

4) Knowland feels civil rights bill will pass in the session of Congress—Ike thought it was a moderate bill—but would understand Congress fine tuning it—Knowland hopes it can be clarified to acceptable standards of Southern states

6) Interview Lyndon Johnson re civil rights bill feels reasonable men will propose reasonable amendments so as to get reasonable results—he will support amendments

10) Roy Wilkins speaks re troops to enforce civil rights—sees no problem deleting reference to troops in civil rights bill says civil rights entails more than voting rights—cannot pick and choose which rights to guarantee

17) Attorney General Herbert Brownell is on Kenneth Keating's television show denies Senator Russell's hyperbole—only difference is that US government will use civil courts instead of criminal courts Brownell speaks of proposed compromises and why he is opposed would not force integration in Southern schools—focus is only the right to vote

19) Middle-ground senator discusses civil rights bill politicking—says neither extreme has enough votes

20) News From Washington: man outside State Department after 28) Senator Aiken says Republicans and Democrats are split on civil rights issue—says it is being affected by 1958 elections

32) Interview Kasper's lawyer who thinks there will be a fair trial

33) United Nations forces in Middle East inspect terrain (S)

34) Knowland sees several weeks yet to get substantial civil rights bill Joseph Martin doubts House will pass school construction bill—Ike is opposed at this point, he wanted it confined to needy states

44) Roy Wilkins says Negro-Americans can expect little aid from federal government as they seek to obtain their rights—says defeat of Title 3 of civil rights bill has weakened 14th amendment—and if they defeat Title 4 (re voting rights) it will weaken 15th amendment

45) Senator Aiken says defeat of Title 3 will probably result in strong bill being passed Senator Paul Douglas blasts killing of Title 3—have turned their back on the Constitution of the United States says "today will be recorded as a black day in the history of the United States Senate—the cause of civil liberties took a severe defeat today"

5) Clinton, Tennessee High School Segue to courtroom filled with white people Kasper of Ku Klux Klan is there (S)

13) Knowland re jury trial issue in civil rights bill says most Republicans oppose amendments offered says he will stay for two more months and beyond that if need be

22) Richard Russell speaks re "fight to the finish" over civil rights bill feels it unnecessary to secure voting rights for "negras" in South—claims that they already vote in Georgia tries to rally entire country against the bill

34) Wayne Morse critical of senators postponing civil rights if Southerners do not like 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments to Constitution let them call a constitutional convention and repeal them he is ready to debate

40) Knowland reiterates preparation to stay until December if necessary to get civil rights bill passed has agreed to a one-day suspension of civil rights debate in order to pass needed legislation

41) McClellan committee McClellan sets course to show that

44) Ike press conference re civil rights bill says USA must make certain every citizens has right to vote—and that judges must have powers, so he's against jury trial gimmick Southerners want imposed asked re his personal millions and possible conflict of interest—Ike cracks that he would quickly sell his holdings for a million dollars (Telenews 49, No. 17)—much laughter Ike says his little money is in a blind trust—all he knows is how much taxes he owes re cigarette smoking, Ike (who was a heavy smoker in wartime, and since then has quit) says if a person turns his mind to it, and stops pitying himself, he will not find it as difficult to stop as he thinks (8157)

8) Floyd Patterson at Meadowbrook Hospital with woman he gives autograph and speaks to press (S)

12) Capitol building at night as civil rights debate goes on Senator Russell feels acceptance of jury-trial amendment was a great triumph—glad to see senators from all sections vote for it Knowland says passage of amendment jeopardizes voting rights bill for this and next session of Congress

14) John Kasper at public rally in farm field with white people Klansman passes out literature (S)

37) Herbert Hoover in San Francisco hotel room inside speaks of teenagers today—calls the the best informed, healthiest on Earth—but teenager's crime is increasing twice as fast as their rise in numbers cites slums as one cause; broke homes; no moral, religious, or patriotic influence; debunking of patriotism, traditions, honor, and morals—cites also "the constant romance of crime in the opinion-making media "it is a problem of young thugs wants local community groups to survey local teen crime feels the dynamic creativity of children forced on the streets for adventure stresses joining a team, sportsmanship—"the greatest teacher of morals, second only to religion"

31) Congressman Eugene McCarthy criticizes Joe Martin on civil rights bill says there is indecision on part of many Republicans to vote on any civil rights bills—now they are moving toward it as a political issue they think they can exploit denies he is trying to bottle up the bill for political advantage—danger of having no successful bill this year

6) Black family named Meyers in white suburban neighborhood in Levittown, Pennsylvania describes his rights to buy any home neighbors angry and ignorant white woman sarcastically derides police protection, "Yea for the coloreds, and down with the whites" she says bitterly—crowd yells approval

15) Local reverend speaks about a curfew for teenagers in Levittown, Pennsylvania—wants discussion not hotheads interview local man who abhors violence taking place

21) Joe Martin speaks of jury-trial option appended to Ike's civil rights bill—challenges Northern civil-righters in Democratic party could join with him—and Ike would approve

31) Lyndon Johnson re civil rights compromise on jury trial feels the bill will pass--sees it as a great step forward in "an important and delicate field he preferred the Senate bill, but "this is the price of a bill this year"—"this will be a definite year of advancement for America"

10) Sam Ervin speaks re filibuster possibilities she has fought the bill with everything we had wants states to solve their own racial problems

30) Civil rights filibuster is on as reporters sleep on typewriters (S)

31) Southern racist congressman speaks predicts civil rights chaos and political prisoners promises millions of white Southerners united to protect their families and their freedoms—says it is our clear duty to turn the tide no Attorney General will stop them White Citizens' Councils

38) School construction bill, civil rights bill--shown as overview of Congressional accomplishments now that Congress has adjourned House minority leader Joseph Martin thinks this Congress may be another "do nothing" Congress since Ike made 203 proposals and none passed

47) White racists line Little Rock streets as Arkansas state militia mills about many trucks there (S)

49) More Little Rock with militia troops Orville Faubus says state militia [National Guard] aim is to protect property and life—they will not act as integrationists or segregationists convinced that it is not possible to protect lives if forcible integration is carried out in schools tomorrow says schools must be operated on same basis as in past

2) Ike press conference asked re school integration—says he will speak urging Americans to recognize the concept on which USA is built—mentions emotions of white fearing mongrelization which must be countered [on eve of Little Rock and Faubus troubles]

3) Washington: Strom Thurmond after filibuster record against civil rights bill says "I feel fine"—wanted "to point out the dangers to the American people in this bill."

9) Little Rock Central High School interview white students who say they will walk out—when one girl gives name and address, her father pulls her away from newsmen Arkansas National Guard commander lectures press, saying cooperation will cease as soon as press objectivity is ascertained to be bias and seems to be "inciting a breech of the peace "mayor of Little Rock rebukes Faubus for calling out militia—says there has been no interracial violence, if there is any trouble, the blame rests with governor

14) Presidential News: Ike returns to White House Brownell speaks after meet with Ike on Little Rock dispute--says little about moves explains Justice Department role in a matter such as this Segue to Dulles reporting on French foreign minister's assessment of Near East (see No. 5 above)—of Syrian subterfuge in the area—Ike accelerating economic and defensive aid to Syrian neighbors Segue to Ike arriving in Baltimore for wedding of son John Eisenhower—Mamie not present Segue to Ike taking off in rainstorm and arriving Newport to visit recuperating Mamie

29) Thurgood Marshall of NAACP tells press the parameters of the case won against Little Rock in Federal Court tissue of Governor and National Guard in court seeking injunction compelling the integration of schools in Little Rock

34) Southern man (school board chairman?) backs Faubus stand on "this safety angle for our people" says it has been a school board problem, if NAACP and other officials would leave our local people alone—he claims "our average colored person in North Little Rock is well satisfied with the progress he's been making over the years" says he would never order National Guard to escort black children into school if so ordered by federal court...and crowd around newsmen roar approval

37) Alabama: amazing footage of white mob dragging black man from his automobile and beating him on Birmingham street outside Phillips High School where he sought to enroll children, kicking door of car he finally allowed to drive off (S) [see No. 40 below]

39) Faubus says federal officials are risking lives of local citizens to integrate schools says he has been progressive on the matter and feels he has to do his duty says local self-government lost if federal government moves into Arkansas concludes saying "if blood is then shed, my conscience will be clear, but I will weep for my people"

40) Black man beaten in Birmingham, Alabama today [see No. 37 above] speaks from sick bed of trouble encountered at Phillips High School where he tried to enroll children--his near death criticizes Western Union for 45 minute delay sending his message for assistance religious man who feels "this is a religious struggle, this is a holy struggle" hopes for no black retribution—non-violent man

43) Nashville, Tennessee school is bombed by two white men to prevent integration police chief feels we have broken the back of these people (read Ku Klux Klan) who do not want to live in law and order

44) Spot News: more on Nashville bombing at Hattie R. Cotton School police cordon off area of destruction only three kids in one classroom group of young girls walks away in boycott (S)

45) Senator Paul Douglas urges Ike to go on television explaining court decisions and facts in Little Rock situation reluctantly suggests Ike fly to Little Rock and escort a black child in each hand and confront National Guardsmen personally

47) Arkansas: man reads summons issued against Faubus, and state National Guard leaders for hearing on September 20 mayor of Little Rock visits Faubus at his mansion (91057)

2) Tennessee: street scenes of downtown Nashville police arrested racist John Kasper to court back in paddy wagon and drive to jail (S)

6) Preacher at Bible Presbyterian Church in Nashville, Tennessee defends white prerogatives, defends John Kasper, attacks NAACP—knows nothing about bombings says middle class Tennesseeans are taking their kids out of school and will not send them to school

7) Senator Kefauver in England questioned by Mr. Newman re civil rights says we have made some substantial progress—hopes Faubus will reconsider his reactions, rebukes bombings—"the law of the land must prevail"—has done damage to prestige of United States

8) Ike and Brownell confer in Newport Faubus arrives for meeting with Ike they pose afterwards Faubus gives formal press conference explaining his position as presented to Ike—says he speaks as governor, not as personal opinion—says "changes cannot be accomplished overnight" hopes for understanding and patience on part of federal judiciary and Justice Department

12) Police remove barriers at Little Rock Central High School on rainy day white kids go to school (S)

14) Birmingham, Alabama black man announces that black children shall refrain from trying to enter high school for now—fears white police preventing them entrance, fears crowds

26) Little Rock Central High School subpoena delivered to mayor by federal marshal Kitt who says about 225 subpoenas may be served before it is over

36) NAACP man speaks after courtroom hearing upset at subpoenas of witnesses man defends charges against NAACP activities in Virginia

38) Governor (of Kansas?) apologizes for "morons" preventing child from going to school in his state criticizes Faubus—says "no National Guard will be called out in my state to prevent a little child from entering school" feels Faubus mischief has hurt USA all over the world

4) Virginia: stay granted preventing the closing of Arlington schools that accept blacks state of Virginia would take over local schools to prevent integration black man speaks re the threat to close schools

14) Virginia judge enters courtroom black students there too re school integration crisis (S)

15) Faubus at desk makes formal speech to TV camera will abide by nationalization order orders Arkansas National Guard out of Little Rock Central High School (92058)

18) Little Rock Central High School as white students walk out of school whites in crowd arrested by police sounds of the street are heard

20) Wayne Morse speaks re "riff-raff mobsters" blasts Governor Faubus urges federal protection in Little Rock under the 14th and 15th amendments says South must face the fact that it belongs to the federal union defends Ike's exercise of presidential rights—

21) Nixon speaks re disgraceful events in Little Rock yesterday blasts Faubus for calling out National Guard then defends the honorable South calls Supreme Court decision in Brown vs. Board of Education the "law of the land"

22) Ike on television statement from Oval Office re Little Rock mob rule our courts and our troops explain edties moves to international competition film shot from the side as he speaks directly into TV cameras (92557)

23) Faubus has not called Ike warns against dispatch of federal troops summary observation

24) News of the Nation: Little Rock and Central High School smaller crowds white men arrested by policeman named Jimmy explains why he does not want blacks back in school now calls for "cooling off" period

26) Little Rock shown with US troops and fixed bayonets man blasts Ike for sending troops another (governor of Georgia?) wants Ike to back off last vestige of states' rights" the second Reconstruction of the South is now underway." Southern governors meeting underway Faubus speaks re federal authority

27) Crowds and fighting as blacks enter Central High School in Little Rock police arrest men and boys some white students walk out of school street sounds heard

30) Little Rock Central High School as federal troops now on the scene bayoneted soldiers move white students break up lingering groups of students interview older white man and woman who think crisis is a mess

31) Night time at Central High School as troops in Jeeps patrol Little Rock truck with explosives the group is 327th Reconnaissance of 101st Airborne (S)

35) Officer in charge of federal troops at Little Rock Central High School announces his goals at press conference

43) Troops in Little Rock drive black Central High School girl home group gathered inside home of Mrs. Bates she is pleased with military and police actions

44) Knowland on Central High School Little Rock crisis obey laws, Constitution, courts, due process praises Ike

4) Little Rock Central High School crisis as diffident Governor Faubus on TV to say "We are now an occupied territory" uses graphic language re bayonets and bludgeoning and "warm red blood" on knives asks "what's happening in America?" police state

7) George Meany re school integration and need to integrate speaks to an international labor organization saying that 31 states have already integrated schools

8) Chicago labor leader Bill Lee will run for Teamsters

10) Georgia: Southern governors meet Georgia governor blasts Ike re school policy

11) Ike spokesman speaks at White House re Little Rock Central High School crisis Faubus will not obstruct the federal troops if so Ike will return Arkansas National Guard to Faubus' control, then Ike will withdraw troops

12) Congressman from Little Rock lauds William Sheppard who has been doing something well

16) Governor Frank Clement urges Ike and Faubus to sit together and settle the Little Rock Central High School crisis

19) Black students arrive Little Rock Central High School Faubus speaks re his discussion with federal authorities

20) Kasper of Ku Klux Klan blasts race-mixer governors will start his own racial nationalist party

23) Arkansas: woman wants Faubus to close Central High School in Little Rock he thinks it may work

26) Federal official announces suspension of three students at Little Rock Central High School

29) Ike press conference talks re Little Rock and withdrawal of troops and Faubus

30) white students leave Central High School as military escorts black students to class interview with white students Faubus speaks

5) Little Rock problems discussed by a man who is friend of Sherman Adams wants troops out

16) White House visit to Ike and Nixon from Ghanaian who had been refused service at a restaurant in Washington D.C. Ike invited him to breakfast

23) News In Brief: black students escorted to school in Central High School Little Rock Faubus speaks of "political hysteria" in Washington D.C.

24) New York Yankees at batting practice Casey Stengel

25) Man at airport in Little Rock denies Faubus charges that soldiers had followed local girls into the bathroom he blasts Faubus for vulgarity and demands the governor "put up or shut up"

15) Herbert Brownell to retire will be replaced by William Rogers Brownell summarizes his accomplishments--especially on civil rights

28) black man registers to vote (S)

23) new Attorney General William P. Rogers is sworn in speaks re Little Rock and daily improvement there he will enforce the law

18) Thanksgiving dinner for black children integrating Central High School in Little Rock Gloria Race, Carlotta Wells, Terence Roberts, Thelma Mothers head, and Nadine Brown each explain why their thankful Roberts give anti-Communist explanation

6) Chicago: Kid Gaviland knocks out challenger (Johnny Bratton?) (S) boxing

22) Man speaks about the racial commission he is heading says we must get along with non-whites of the world--especially now

1958

24) Ike swears in Civil Rights Commission it includes Father James Hesburgh leader speaks of newly-created Commission

41) Maxton, North Carolina: scenes with police (S)

42) Maxton, North Carolina: re Ku Klux Klan and local Indians packing guns for shoot out the Indian mayor speaks says no one was hurt because it did not get out of hand

2) Willie Mays moves into new San Francisco home (S)

19) Sugar Ray Robinson and Carmen Basilio sign fight contract Joe Louis is present (S)

32) Long Island: Roy Campanella in hospital after tragic auto accident

33) Walter O'Malley of Dodgers speaks to press about Campanella accident

34) Film of Campanella's past baseball glories

2) New York City: two black women (one named Minnie Jean) at The New Lincoln School

23) J. Edgar Hoover speaks against zip guns and youth gangs on Sen. Kenneth Keating's Let's Look at Congress TV show JEH "where are the parents?" parental neglect says juvenile delinquency is adult delinquency

43) Little Rock: graduation at Central High School troops on view Class of '58black students receive degrees too (S)

36) Virginia school crisis Farmville in Prince Edward county white man has set up private schools for whites black man will back NAACP case—he wants integrated schools

43) Ike with Martin Luther King, Jr., A. Phillip Randolph, Roy Wilkins—speak re Lemley decision Kings urges federal government to curtail violence in wake of Lemley

10) Black woman and child wanting entry into school school official testing the child will make no specific revelations about what he has been in interviewing black children for school admission (apparently screen out black kids from private schools)

13) Central High School in Little Rock Southern man says it is now clear federal government will go "all the way to crush the South"

16) Little Rock: school board head Blossom pleads for understanding from all parties—wants cooperation from all concerned

17) reaction to Lemley decision editor of black newspaper, State Press, says only decision federal court can reach is to overrule Judge Lemley's decision holding up school integration

25) Little Rock: Faubus urges school board to work with general population does board intend to go along with federal integration, or will it fight in every way possible against forced integration

26) Ike press conference speaks to court decision—Ike reiterates necessity to comply with final orders of the court—says each state must suppress defiance of the law--has not changed opinion since last year when he dispatched troops this is only one of five integration cases before the courts

30) Senator Harry Byrd says race mixing will destroy public education" there will be no enforced integration in Virginia" if troops sent to Virginia, "they will patrol empty schoolhouses"

40) Blossom of Little Rock says School Board planning to open all-white schools but will comply with the actual court order no blacks have requested to register in new schools

1) headline says "NAACP Moves To Upset Stay" as Thurgood Marshall walks up steps of Supreme Court says seeking to upset Judge Lemley's order which would open schools to black students in Little Rock does not want mob overruling US Constitution (good quote)

4) Little Rock: state legislator speaks of mild education bill he is introducing--no one will oppose measures feels special session of US Supreme Court called is balanced by special session of Arkansas legislature called by Faubus

17) Ike press conference feels closing schools would be disastrous and lead to much litigation reporter reads article painting Ike as slow, non-integrationist--says he will not take a stand on Supreme Court rulings except to enforce them—but then he takes such a stand, saying he personally thinks slower pace would be his choice

18) Little Rock: Faubus opens special legislative session—gets standing ovation from all-white legislator she proposes closing school 1) to maintain peace against violence, provide for safety of buildings or property; 2) where federal force is employed to enforce court orders; 3) when a suitable system cannot be maintained because of the integration of the races calls it a "battle for states rights" we must chose to defend our rights or else surrender--"there are no other choices"

19) Interview Roy Wilkins of NAACP blasts Ike for suggesting we should slow down the integration pace—says it is too slow already and should be speeded up after 4.5 years there ought to more movements—seven states have done nothing

22) Thurgood Marshall happy there will finally be a Court hearing on Lemley decision on September 11feels it will historic decision for civil rights in Arkansas, the South, and the USA

24) Little Rock School Board people enter Supreme Court (S)

26) US government lawyer J. Lee Rankin explains why Lemley decision and Court of Appeals stay should both be set aside and black students Little Rock School Board lawyer says forced integration would be same as lighting fuse and blowing up schools

27) Little Rock: Faubus press conference speaks to Ike's preference to slow down integration Daniel Schorr asks if he and Ike are now in agreement—yes, if he means to slow down integration to preserve the peace Schorr asks about Ike statement promising litigation if schools are closed—Faubus not in full agreement here

28) Senator Fulbright asked re civil rights situation a moderate, he believes stay would make possible more reasoned approach to integration--equivocates

1) George Meany statement on Labor Day speaks of "the Soviet challenge to the American way of life"—international and domestic in scope speaks of civil rights problems hindering our leadership of the free world" concludes that "What's good for America is good for the American worker" (9158)

8) Little Rock: Blossom of School Board announces all elementary and junior high schools will open September 4—high schools will open September 15

15) Little Rock: Faubus meets press reads New York Times saying federal marshals will be use to enforce federal court rulings questioned about use of armed federal marshals—he sticks by state-rights ideas against federal intervention

22) Virginia: Governor Almond speaks about collecting taxes—state and federal (9558)

23) Little Rock Mothers League woman speaks re federal marshal William Kidd hiring local men to be U.S. marshals to enforce school integration at gun point-says men who accept such jobs "are traitors to their race and traitors to their state"—compare them to Judas and calls them "Quislings"

36) mother takes black child to elementary school in Nashville, Tennessee superintendent says there has been a lot of work to prevent violence as last year—"this calm is real" reflects majority feeling that orderliness, welfare of children above all else—but not a pro-integrationist feeling

3) Little Rock: U.S. Marshal's office is expanding a marshal explains his role in enforcing court orders--although city and state had responsibility of maintaining peace and order

4) Education: man from Office of Education reads federal law regarding payment to local school—when schools are closed, no basis for federal payments—even when state pays funds to maintain students in private schools, no federal payment

9) Mr. Blossom says Little Rock school board has been in good faith from beginning in carrying out desegregation—seeking delay on court order

111) National Headline: Thurgood Marshall, Roy Wilkins, and others arrive Supreme Court (S)

14) Little Rock: Faubus talks to press says NAACP has gotten all it wants from Supreme Court will not do what Governor Clement of Tennessee did, use national guard to quell trouble and integrate—says he will never force "my people" to integrate against their will blasts federal government intervention

17) Justice department lawyer with black men behind him speaks outside Supreme Court reiterates hope for locally-maintained law and order Thurgood Marshall doesn't think federal government should enter until rightful local authorities shown unwilling or unable--refuses to judge Little Rock situation

19) Outside Supreme Court Thurgood Marshall reiterates the school integration problem is a legal one, should not be allowed to become a political one—says the law is crystal clear now and any Arkansas opposition now is a "deliberately calculated violation of the law"

21) Little Rock: Faubus announces signing bill closing senior high schools in order to maintain peace calls for an election on integration question to be held by election commissioners

28) Little Rock: three high schools shown to be closed Faubus press conference asked when he will reopen high schools—he is waiting for October 7th vote of public hints at segregated private schools asked re federal marshals this year compared to federal troops used last year—says public will meet marshals this time with "a cold fury"

29) Head of high school in Charlottesville, Virginia anxious that schools be reopened interview white kids on streets—they are segregationists

36) University of Florida faces racial integration interview student named George who is first black to enroll there—says other students very cordial will live with a private family

43) Virginia: principal of Statford Junior High School happy courts have refused to close Virginia schools asked re future when integration court-mandated for January 1959 principal evasive about commenting on potentiality

44) Rhode Island: William Rogers arrives by helicopter to meet with Ike re school desegregation says he advised Ike on Virginia and Arkansas situations—feels good judgment is showing itself among parents there—cannot believe people would rather close public schools than comply with decisions of US Supreme Court Segue to Ike on presidential yacht Sequoia

46) National Headline: Faubus at state capitol speaks to press blasts Presbyterian church leaders as "brainwashed" by "left wingers and Communists"—thinks "that some of our clergy are left wingers' angry that school board has canceled football season—blames Mr. Blossom and his board fostering cause of integration (91758)

1) Washington: William Rogers speaks re defending rights of all Americans, without bias says individuals may not decide for themselves when and what they will obey of federal law (91958)

9) Senator Harry Byrd of Virginia speaks of leftwing Democrats and leftwing moderate Republicans calls for national referendum on race issue via an Constitutional amendment

10) man wants Norfolk, Virginia school board to lease its schools to his private corporation

35) News of the Day: governors conference at The Phoenix Hotel Kansas (?) governor speaks about Southern race question—feels many Southern governors are playing to public opinion—but that this is not leadership Georgia governor Griffin explains public school system there a third governor discusses illegality of leasing public schools as private schools

2) Politics In The News: Governor Raymond Gary of Oklahoma discusses Democratic possibilities for 1960 presidential nomination—says Lyndon Johnson is favored over Kennedy in Oklahoma Governor Marvin Griffin of Georgia says Georgians hold JFK in high esteem Governor James P. Coleman of Mississippi says that JFK is a strong contender as far as the South is concerned

19) Arkansas: students voice their opinion on integration problem—they want school opened majority does not favor integration, but it's not that important that they would give up their educations

21) Michigan State University students file into classrooms black student with white roommate is focus of the story he is named Ernie from the South (Little Rock Central High School graduate?)

26) Alabama: elderly black man jailed police chief speaks re this case of robbery—awaits the verdict" We in Alabama at least give 'em a trial"

28) Little Rock: school board elections whites line up to vote (S)

29) Black man from No. 26 above taken to Kilby prison (S)

32) Little Rock: school board chairman will lease private schools

36) Norfolk schools closed" Long Live Dixie" scribbled on bricks at Norview High Schoolman speaks of what is being done—new private system will be ready next Monday committee to keep public schools open speaks of what his group is trying to do—oppose closed school, want free and efficient public school system under local control—state has gone too far

38) Little Rock: central High School has sign on front law saying "This School Closed by Order of the Federal Government" spokesman is critical of NAACP and federal government getting court order to close the recently-privatized Little Rock high schools

41) Ike press conference reads his statement re Supreme Court ruling on Monday reiterating end of racial-bias in education—equal justice under law interpretation"

8) New York City: Martin Luther King, Jr. in hospital recuperating says he has no bitterness toward Mrs. Currieact says it demonstrates bitterness so permeates that deeds of extreme violence must erupt reiterates his pledge to non-violence for civil rights movement

13) Tennessee: Clinton problems—high school bombed out—much destruction shown (S)

28) Little Rock: Faubus talks about Internal Revenue Service check on his income taxes since September 1957—sees this as "recrimination and vengeance"

35) Spot News: bombed school in Clinton, Tennessee—students bussed out of town to Linden High School Boy Scouts raise flag—no blacks students to be seen (S)

10) Norfolk, Virginia students demonstrate for schools to be opened spokesman demands schools be opened

28) Newly-created Little Rock Senior High School will open doors as private school for all white students on Monday morning—have $61,000 to fund operations

33) Atlanta: four men in handcuffs taken to Fulton County jail—arrested by destroying Jewish synagogue related to civil rights movement interview Bishop Sherrill who says US race relations a major problem in US foreign relations—gives specific example" All our talk about democracy and human rights falls very flat...because they see in our present situation we do not live up to the ideals we preach."

35) White students register at Little Rock Senior High School (S)

7) Harlem Globetrotters do "Sweet Georgia Brown" warm-up Abe Sapperstein is there, so is Roy Campanella play game (S)

7) Little Rock: school board resigns on November 14, 1958—elections for new board to be held December 6

29) Civil Rights Commission hearing blacks disallowed voting rights (water damage)

6) Civil Rights Commission regrets refusal of Alabama officials to appear under subpoena

1959

19) Senator William Proxmire of Wisconsin re legislation in new Congress refers to "we liberals" wants cloture on filibusters—but Stennis of Mississippi opposes saying it would be unsound now mention socialized medicine asked re civil rights legislation—says he sees no new legislation at this time

12) Senator Talmadge reacts against federal intervention in school crisis favors local schools locally and state controlled

13) Governor Almond of Virginia blasts race mixing in Virginia public schools calls for non-public school system says "the hammer of federal intervention fell with devastating force"

17) Ike press conference: —re desegregation of schools and feelings on Earl Warren Ike speaks his mind but avoids Presidential comment on Supreme Court decision

20) Black student named James ? on Capitol steps Jimmie says he has been stopped from becoming a page two other students react to such bigotry--see also T-114, No. 25

2) Virginia high school is closed interview student who wants to go to school interview head of Charlottesville schools who is not prejudiced

5) Integrate Norview High School in Virginia black girl named Alvarez says all is going well so far white girl and boy also not upset by school integration no animosity

6) Black boy leaves for school joins other black students police guard junior high school (S)

34) Black children off to elementary school driven to school police waiting at school (S)

2) Black high schooler goes to school in Front Royal, Virginia many cameramen there white kids seen entering private school interview white girl who is happier in private school--do not have to go with the coloreds—parents will not let here anyway whole town is against whites going to school with coloreds (21859)

25) Black page named Jimmy will go to page school five Congressmen support him speaks of having to fight for the job (22559)—see also T-111 No. 20

1) New York City: black youth to court mother leaves without him (S) see Telenews 114 No. 36

35) Roy Campanella at Los Angeles Dodgers training camp Walter Alston and Campanella speak flatteringly about Johnny Roseboro

2) Roy Campanella at Dodgers game in Los Angeles (S)

29) Poplarville, Mississippi interview black man in jail about another black man named Charles Mack Parker who to be tried for rape of pregnant white woman, but was dragged from jail day before trial, taken to wood and shot to death, then his body was dumped in the Pearl River interview white town official, too

34) Mayor of Poplarville, Mississippi defends county over what happened says "our people here have been sinned against" bitter man

41) North Carolina: NAACP official named Williams says Negroes must defend themselves—even if by violence he assails federal government says Negro men must standup and be men--must kill if necessary civil rights

29) Roy Campanella Night at Los Angeles Coliseum Dodgers play New York Yankees (S)

4) Poplarville: Mississippi white man in bed with rifle (S)

19) Mr. Jordan of White Defense League from UK wants all blacks out of Great Britain--and no more blacks allowed in his slogan is "Keep Britain a white man's country"

31) Orval Faubus says recent school board election in Little Rock, Arkansas was NOT a victory for integrationists he remains unchanged

1) Senate Committee on Juvenile Delinquency hears from Mayor Richard J. Daley of Chicago who stresses family and character-building a psychologist speaks to committee re delinquency

6) Louis Armstrong hospitalized overseas wife at bedside (S)

8) Louis Armstrong from hospital bed speaks of visiting USSR

10) Obituary vintage footage of Louis Armstrong in case he died—He Did Not Die And This Was Not Aired

37) Louis Armstrong reports on his health jokes about near death—says at pearly Gates he heard Bix Beiderbecke and Sidney Bechet who wanted Satchmo for first chair

26) More McClellan Committee as black man is quizzed Robert Kennedy asks re "colored people" excluded from Teamsters in Detroit Local 299

27) Africa: de Gaulle lands in black African country (Senegal?) (S)

Other NewsReels and News Films

Newsreel Short: Martin Luther King in Chicago speaks in front of the Buckingham fountain in Chicago says "Chicago is far from the Promised Land" says "There is no Jerusalem on Lake Michigan" (72665)

Newsreel Short: Martin Luther King speaks in Chicago calls for "an action program" to solve problem, tells blacks to work and sacrifice and suffer for freedom (8565)

MISC17) civil rights three black women march in rain "Don't Buy Where You Can't Be Hired" and "Hire Negros..." sic on their signs police arrest them and tear up signs Segue to two National State Rights party demonstrators—"Hire whites not Negroes" says one sign (S)

By-Line Newsreel: Bill Alexander produced this 400' all-black newsreel with the following

1) African-American women toll-takers at new Baltimore harbor tunnel

2) Miss Empire State beauty contest—Mary Watson wins

3) Miss Spirit of Cotton Elizabeth Gibson

4) First anniversary of Ghana independence—good footage of Nhkruma, Accra spotlighted

5) Commercial: Pepsi-Cola as sophisticated black woman serves sodas to her party guests

6) Honorary degrees given by Morgan State College to Marian Anderson and Jackie Robinson—Martin Luther King is there too

7) College football as Morgan State plays black North Carolina college

8) Penn relays—Delaney Jenkins anchors Villanova to victory

9) Commercial: Pepsi-Cola logo ends film

Civil Rights Reel

1) Byron de la Beckwith taken to Mississippi State Hospital (72663) (S)

2) Whites taunt black protest marchers police then arrest two blacks (S)

3) White racists beat white picketer hose down two protesters men in Ku Klux Klan robes (71865) (S)

4) Blacks enter Redwood cafe, then Acme cafe white crowds outside test Public Accommodations law (S) 72065

5) Cross burning Ku Klux Klan leader speaks—Connie Lynch?--refers to "Martin Luther Coon" (72265)

6) Martin Luther King in Chicago speaks in front of the Buckingham fountain in Chicago Al Raby is there MLK says "Chicago is far from the Promised Land" MLK says "There is no Jerusalem on Lake Michigan" (72665)

7) Greenboro, Alabama marchers ordered to leave civil rights marchers arrested (Bill Plante CBS) 72965

8) Ku Klux Klan Rally in North money donated (8265) (S)

9) Governor of Georgia calls for halt by demonstrators says let Georgians settle their own problems outsiders stay away Americus, Georgia (8265)

10) Roy Wilkins of NAACP sees Lyndon B. Johnson Wilkins says things are better since passage of Civil Rights Act of 1964 (8365)

11) Martin Luther King speaks in Chicago calls for "an action program" to solve problem tells blacks to work and sacrifice and suffer for freedom (8565)

12) Senator Everett Dirksen speaks re losing on reapportionment issue (8565)

13) John Lewis, James Farmer announce voter registration drive

14) LBJ kinescope speaks re Voting Rights Act Segue to signing ceremony with Hubert Humphrey, Everett Dirksen, and other politicians (8665)

15) Blacks line up to register to vote (S) (8965)

16) Marchers in Washington D.C. sing "We Shall Overcome" by Lincoln Memorial sprayed with paint by two Nazi youths police order end to march John Meyer of CBS News (8965)

17) Southern white leader files suit against Voting Rights Act (81165)

18) Martin Luther King will write to heads of state to demand an end Vietnam war feels it could lead to annihilation of human race puts himself in the camp of Lyndon B. Johnson's opponents on the matter (81365)

19) Anti-USA parade in Latin American country Cuba? Puerto Rico? (81865)

20) Black teenager explains civil rights killing he witnessed Rev. John Daniel shot in stomach priest Fr. Richard Marsh also shot

21) Philadelphia, Mississippi high school is integrated by black girls

22) Looting and police make arrests (S) (81365)

23) Night time in Watts riots police point rifle at blacks police beat suspect Bill Stout of CBS News covers this second night of the riots (81365)

24) Bill Stout shows fires burning in Watts troops arrive

25) Chicago riot suppressed by police

26) Police in Watts battle rioters rifle and semiautomatic rifle fire National Guard shoot woman who would not stop at road block many blacks loaded into police bus

27) National Guard leaving Los Angeles after Watts is quieted several soldiers speak their feelings at departure (81865)

28) President Johnson denounces Watts riots says it bears no relationship to his civil rights movement (82065) NS

My Childhood: The life of James Baldwin in Harlem (81064)

Light Across the Shadow: local NYC documentary re the War on Poverty, here distributed as Encyclopedia Britannica educational film) ca. 1966

Dinner with the President: all-star cast (politicians and actors) dine with President Eisenhower and the Anti-Defamation League of the B'nai B'rith on November 23, 1953 (last half hour of one hour telecast)

Shot List Is As Follows:

William Warfield sings aria from "Tosca" Walter Cronkite Lili Palmer and Martin Gabel and Rex Harrison speak on dias are Felix Frankfurter, Tom Clarke, Robert Jackson, William O. Douglas, Earl Warren Ethel Merman sings "I Get a Kick Out of You" but changes cocaine line to "Some like their perfume from Spain"—she also sings "Alexander's Ragtime Band" (omitting the line "So natural that you want to go to war") and "There's No Business Like Show Business" Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, who produced the show, make liberal appeal for tolerance Helen Hayes in scene from "Harriet" as Harriet Beecher Stowe Phillip Klutznick Henry Edward Schultz Ike accepts award and delivers impassioned spontaneous speech (CBS coverage) 112353

News 212: ABC Summer Focus: "To Be Black" two Black psychiatrists probe the anger in Afro-America 82469

News 138: CBS Reports: "Fathers and Sons" (abbreviated version of award-winning documentary re the generation gap—here focusing on black young man and his agreement with his father and white young man facing jail for refusing to be drafted) 81269

News 199: Bell And Howell Close-Up!: "Kenya—Land of the Black Ghost" part II of two-part report on Kenya, Kenyatta, and decolonialization produced by Robert Drew, with Albert Maysles and Richard Leacock (concerns political campaigns and elections of February 1961) 51661

News 76: World In Action: from Grenada Television in Great Britain this is a report on civil rights movement through Dick Gregory (from 864—just after Birmingham bombings killed children)

News 77: CBS News Special Report: "The Death of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr." first half-hour of CBS documentary re the life and death of Dr. King (4468)

News 101: CBS News Special: "The Battle of East St. Louis" (concerns racial problems in East St. Louis, Illinois) 123069

News 106: CBS News Special Report: "Remedy for Riot" (45 minute condensation of network special about the Kerner Commission Report) focuses on Atlanta (41368) See also News 107

News 107: CBS News Special Report: "Remedy for Riot" (first 30 minutes if network documentary--not edited) 41368 [See also News 106)

News 112: CBS News Inquiry: "The Warren Report" (first part of CBS assessment of Warren Commission report on the assassination of President Kennedy) 62567

News 129: See It Now: "The Lady from Philadelphia—Through Asia with Marian Anderson" (controversial documentary re the opera singer touring East Asia) 123057

News 142: Cbs Reports: "Harvest of Shame" 112560

News 37: See It Now:: "Clinton and the Law" Edward R. Murrow probes racial integration problems in Clinton, Tennessee (1657)

News 23: ABC News Reports: "Crucial Summer" (fifth and final part in series reporting on racial situation in U.S.—this one focusing on schools opening for the fall) 9863

News 15: Editor's Choice: "Africa—Nigeria—Overpopulation" (report on Nigeria shortly after independence and interview with Prime Minister Abubakar Tafawa Balewa) 73061

News 24: Howard K. Smith With News And Comment: reports on the race problem with a lengthy treatment of the history of American racism and a debunking of many racist myths (10762)

News 39: The 20th Century: "Ethiopia: The Lion and the Cross" (survey of Ethiopia and its leader, Haille Selassie) part I of two-part series (33163) #152

News 40: The 20th Century: "Ethiopia: The Lion and the Cross" (part II of the two-part series) 4763 (#153)

News 52: Abc Scope: Jomo Kenyatta—'Burning Spear' Turns Builder" (approving analysis of Kenyatta and Kenya as seen through the perspective of Kenyans) 103065

News 53: Historical Footage: outtakes from Martin Luther King, Jr. on television:

a) Letter from a Birmingham Jail

b) "I Have a Dream" speech at Lincoln Memorial

c) Selma-to-Birmingham march

News 55: The American Revolution Of '63: "The Civil Rights Movement—The South" (segment from the 3 12 hour NBC civil right special) 9263

News 56: The American Revolution Of '63: "The Civil Rights Movement—A Personal View" (people such as Medgar Evers, Chet Huntley, and Leander Perez give their side of the movement) 9263

News 57: The American Revolution Of '63: "The Civil Rights Movement—The North" (focuses on cities like Chicago and their racial problems) 9263

News 58: NBC News White Paper: "The Battle of Newbergh" (report on poverty and declining human services in upstate New York town) White Paper No. 9 (12862)

News 59: WCBS-TV News: "Superfluous People" (award-winning documentary about unwanted people in urban America) 72662

News 60: Local News: "Spud's Summer" (documentary from Channel 10 in New York City re New York Herald-Tribune's "Fresh Air Fund" to send inner city kids to summer camp in the country) circa 1965

News 62: ABC Close-Up: "Walk in My Shoes" one of the first important documentaries re civil rights problems, especially outside the South (91961) 1600' reel

News 241: The 20th Century: "Integration in the Military" Truman's racial integration of military and thereafter (4366) 8-3D

News 271: CBS Reports: "Ku Klux Klan: The Invisible Empire"

Charles Kuralt reports on the Klan--interviews with Imperial Wizard Robert Sheldon, publisher Ralph McGill, U.S. Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach (92165)

News 273: ABC News Close Up: "Justice on Trial" Howard K. Smith narrates critique of criminal justice system (includes ex-convict-playwright Miguel Pinero and excerpts from his drama, Short Eyes) 1777

News 274: ABC News: "Heroes and Heroin" Frank Reynolds reports on the incidence of drug use among U.S. forces in Vietnam—follows soldiers there and at home (81771) 1600'

News 277: Editor's Choice: "Ole Miss: A Story" probes the crisis at University of Mississippi when James Meredith attempted to integrate the university and Govern Ross H. Barnett interposed his office (10762)

Net Documentary22: History of the Negro People "The New Mood" Ossie Davis hosts a look at the militant, yet optimistic attitude of blacks toward solving their problems

Net Documentary23: History of the Negro People "Free at Last" is episode in the series from 1965 (Ossie Davis hosts; Roscoe Lee Browne stars)

Net Documentary27: Black Journal: "The Black Cop" re New York City black policeman a Kent Garrett film from late 1960s (600' film)

Net Documentary24: History of the Negro People "The Negro and the Future" final program of series is roundtable discussion with Ossie Davis, Chief S.O. Adebo (Nigerian ambassador to UN), Antonio Olento (Brazilian), John A. Davis, John Hope Franklin, Basil Davidson (80 mins. part I is 800' reel; parts II and III are 1200' reels)

Net Documentary25: History of the Negro People: "Heritage of the Negro" Ossie Davis hosts premier episode in this limited-run series

Net Documentary26: History of the Negro People: "Slavery" kinescoped episode

Net Documentary28: Black Journal: "The South: Health & Hunger" concerns plight of poor rural blacks in the South (Black Journal #10) 800' film from late 1960s

Net Documentary29: Black Journal: "The World of Julian Bond" short film re the stand taken by Julian Bond in 1968 (10 minutes film800' can)

Net Documentary30: PBL [Public Broadcasting Laboratory]:

"Gordon Park's Diary of a Harlem Family" photographer Parks is on camera and behind the camera in this 800' study of a Harlem family and its plight (circa 1968)

Net Documentary31: Net Journal: "Black Militancy: Color Us Black" hour documentary re the impact of Ron Karenga's speech on Howard University students [late 1960s]

Net Documentary32: Net Journal: "The Way It Is" hour program re the condition of inner city schools (1968)

Net Documentary33: Net Journal: "The Warren Years--Great Decisions" survey of the Warren court and its historic activities re a) civil rights, b) one-man one-vote, and c) civil liberties vis a vis police (1968 copyright—just after Warren Burger became Chief Justice)

Net Documentary35: USA: "Ballet" features interviews and performance from George Ballinchine and the New York Ballet (circa 1965)—features black ballet star Arthur Mitchell

Net Documentary43: Creator Or Destroyer?: "The Run from Race" re black protest movement and the plight of urban blacks (1964)

Net Documentary46: "Men Who Teach" program #4 in the series, here subject is Howard Mitchell, black urbanologist of University of Pennsylvania

Net Documentary48: Net Journal: "Still a Brother—Inside the Negro Middle Class" is from Net Journal series (host is Ossie Davis--3 x 1200' reels)

Net Documentary49: Net Journal: "Where Is Prejudice?" special school program mixes races in search for the root causes of race prejudice

Net Documentary58: PBL [Public Broadcasting Laboratory] "Civil Disorder: The Kerner Commission Report" 90-minute exploration of the Kerner Commission findings on racism in America (host is reporter Tom Pettit) early 1969PBL # 16—Part I on 1600' reel Part II on 2000' reel

Net Documentary64: Net Journal: "Justice and the Poor" surveys criminal justice system and its structural shortcomings (2000')

Net Documentary66: America's Crises: "Marked for Failure" re the education of the US underprivileged in who attend slum schools (2000')

Net Documentary72: Net Journal: "What Harvest for the Reaper?" expose on the exploitation of poor black migrant workers by the potato industry—in Suffolk County, New York (akin to "Harvest of Shame") circa 1968 (2000')

Net Documentary74: Public Broadcasting Laboratory [PBL]: "Anacostia: Museum in the Ghetto" concerns Smithsonian- created local museum in slums of Washington, D.C. (800' from late 1960s)

NewsReel #10: John F. Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy historical news footage 1200' reel

1) RFK before Ervin committee re bill top aid blacks with education in the South RFK gets angry with Ervin

4) more RFK before Ervin committee says it is difficult for federal government to get convictions in Southern courts when blacks seek equal justice against a white

5) more RFK-Ervin RFK asks how can US government desert blacks-urges support for civil rights bill

10) black civil rights songfest in church Gloria Richardson introduces woman guest, but guest never speaks

Your Senators Report: Sen. Richard Schweiker interviews black activist Leon Sullivan

Now Is the Time: Ruby Dee and Ossie Davis host one-hour documentary re Black social movement (from WCAU-TV circa 1971)

Black Journal I: "The Black Woman" (Tony Brown hosts Lena Horne, Nikki Giovanni, et al.) kinescope

Of Black America I: "Black History: Lost, Stolen or Strayed?" (hosted by Bill Cosby) 7268 (#1)

Of Black America II: "The Black Soldier" is first 30 minutes of second program in series (traces history of Afro-American contribution to U.S. military) 7968 (#2)

Of Black America III: "Black World" first 30 minutes of third program in series (looks as Blacks around the world) 71668 (#3)

Of Black America IV: "Black America in Search of a Past" (82068) #6 (1 hour)

Of Black America V: "Blacks in Black and White" (last 20 minutes of final program of series here assessing statistically the sentiments of moderate Blacks and whites) w Hal Walker and Charles Kuralt (9268) #7

The Creative Person II: interview with poet Gwendolyn Brooks re her philosophy and outlook—good shots of Chicago black streets ca. 1963 8-14A

Ship's Reporter II: quarter-hour interview program from 1949—this one takes place aboard Ile de France just back from Europe as host John Mangan chats with several celebrities: 8-5B

3) Josephine Baker, black American chanteuse arriving from France

Good Food: 400' for rural agricultural workers stressing how to wash and cook foods—good for black field workers, inside African-American shack where mother prepares food for her children early 1960s 4-13D

Sports TV Programs

Biography: "Jackie Robinson"

[The Wide] World of Sports: 400' reel contains two Sports Illustrated TV shorts—first re Roy Campanella working with young ball players—second is Satchel Paige working with Atlanta Braves 400' late 1960s

Mixed Sports Shorts: 8-4D

3) interview Satchel Paige—he is inducted into Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown—also speak about Paige with Roy Campanella, Jackie Robinson, and Bill Veeck—black

1959 Washington Redskins Highlights: Eddie Gallaher and Jim Gibbons hos—with Amoco gasoline commercials (from 1960) Eddie LeBaron is Washington quarterback

1959 Chicago Cardinals Highlights: 1200' summary of the pro football Cardinals in last season as Chicago team

1960 Buffalo Bills Highlights: local TV program reviews first season of AFL team in Buffalo

Track And Field

The Olympiad: one-hour color documentary series As follows:

1: Jesse Owens Returns to Berlin—black & white retrospective on the 1936 Olympics and Jesse Owens achievements there

2: The Marathon--

3: The Decathalon--

4: The Australians--

5. Big Ones That Got Away--

6: Women Winners--

7: The Persistent Ones--

8: The African Runners--

9: Soviet Athletes--

10: The Incredible Five—concerns five multiple-Olympics competitors: Emil Zatopek, Al Oerter, Paavo Nurmi, Fannie Blankers-Koen, and a Czech women

11: The Rare Ones--

12: The 800 Meters--

13: The East Germans--

15: The East Europeans--

16: The Magnificient Ones--

17: They Didn't Have a Chance--

18: An Olympic Symphony--synchronized film and classical music

19: Winter Olympiad--

20: The 1500 Meters--

21: The Fastest Men in the World—sprinters hurdlers

22: Winter Olympic Immortals--

23: Those Who Endured--

The Rafer Johnson Story: Wolper documentary (1961)

Wide World of Sports IV: kinescope of first Cassius Clay-Sonny Liston fight held 22564—plus gymnastics commercials for Dodge automobiles, Gillette shaving creme fight commentary by Sugar Ray Robinson and Howard Cosell

Championship Boxing: Joe Frazier vs. Terry Daniels (4672) one hour

Telesports Digest: Harry Wismer narrates newsreel on sports in Spring 1950—projections for National League baseball during Spring training--women wrestlers, Philadelphia Eagles-Cleveland Browns football, jockeys and horse racing story, American League baseball predictions

CBS Sports Spectacular II: US indoor track and field meet; World Skating Championships; boxers in "box-off" after Mohammed Ali stripped of title (2666) 90 minutes

Lincoln-Mercury Sports: interviews with the following stars:

Jesse Owens Al Kaline Gordie Howe

Julius Boros Tony Trabert Byron Nelson

Top Views in Sports: Gordon McLendon hosts sports newsreel (800'reel)

--Cleveland Indians exhibition baseball--Minnie Minoso is Indian rookie

--Johnny Bratton trains for Kid Gaviland fight to be held May 18, 1951

Top Views in Sports VI: 800' reel--Howard Miller and Jimmy Evans 1050

B) Huntsville, Texas: Texas State Prison Rodeo—many black prisoners

Telesports No. 737: 1965 episode with the following:

--Harlem Globetrotters

--Harlem Globe girls basketball Willie White is star of the team (sexist voice-over)

Jimmy Powers Sports: Powerhouse of Sports: kinescope sports commentary w trainer of Joe Louis (NYC commercials) 61851

Miscellaneous TV Shows

The Big Picture: "The Truck in War" (history of the truck from World War I through Korean War good emphasis upon Red Ball Express and black soldiers in World War II)

Discovery '69 I: "A Matter of Pride" (concerns race relations and the Chicago ghetto)

Vintage TV Commercials

M811) United Negro College Fund: Hank Aaron w kine of 715th home run "A mind is a terrible thing to waste"

M225) Westinghouse Dishwasher: black mother-in-law is wrong when she tells daughter-in-law that she has to wash pot before putting in dishwasher

M2336) Wonder Woman Doll: dolls for kids...even a black villainess doll named Nubia

M2341) United States Army: black sergeant recruiting in his Army uniform

M2029) Canada Dry Ginger Ale: three toughies—Jack Elam, Broderick Crawford, Isaac Hayes, sing "it's not too sweet"

M2039) Rolaids: black woman cab driver in New York City has to use Rolaids sometimes

M2050) black tie cologne: black-oriented commercial from Johnson products—slinky black woman declares, "this is his gold....""gentlemen are requested to wear Black Tie to all affairs"

M2113) Johnson Products: "Moods" has middle class Black values—rich, handsome people—touring foreign countries, romance—for Johnson cosmetics

M2125) Surf: West African commercial with "giant strength" Surf epitomized in a black giant who brings his soap detergent to a group of three native women who are washing clothes by hand

Mixed Ads 18 Blacks In TV Commercials Reel—contain 33 commercials featuring black characters

1) PSA: Rafer Johnson walks around track in evening and speaks for gym programs and President's Council on Fitness (circa 1972)

2) Jack-In-The-Box: little boy (NOT Rodney Allen Rippey) has trouble handling such a big hamburger

3) Schaeffer Beer: glamorous Lena Horne sings theme song—"Shaeffer is the one beer to have when you're havin' more than one"

4) Coast Soap: black man is revived when he showers with "the eye opener"

5) Jell-O Pudding: Bill Cosby jokes with kids sitting on stoop

6) Kool Aid: black children—and adult, all drink—"you're never too old of Kool Aid" beverage

7) Wheaties: father and son hiking--rite of passage—"he's ready for Wheaties, he knows he's a man" cereal

8) Vicks Nyquil: jazz trumpeter has a cold—buddy recommends this

9) Gold Medal Flour: "I remember"—little girl and baking—nostalgia theme

10) Coca-Cola: Willie Mays catches baseball and wins the game—drinks Coke in clubhouse of San Francisco Giants—Glenn Yarborough sings theme

11) Coca-Cola: Ray Charles sings country-western theme, then drinks a Coke when the show is over—enters airplane

12) Campbell's Vegetable Soup: mom serves it to her baseball-uniformed son

13) Church's Fried Chicken: white dad and daughter order from a black employee

14) PSA: United Negro College Fund: scene from 19th century—once it was against the law in some states to teach a black child to read or write—"a mind is a terrible thing to waste"—Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs and Dorian Harewood are modern students denied education because there is no money

15) Wilt Chamberlain Basketball: mad scientist visited by young couple—he drinks potion and becomes Wilt Chamberlain and plays this elaborate board game with them—toy by Caleco

16) Uncle Ben's Rice: black Uncle Ben is pictured on the box

17) Susie Cute Doll: Louis Armstrong and three little white girls sing the Susie Cute Doll song—Topper toys B&W

18) Burger King: middle class family serenaded with "hold the pickle, hold the relish"

19) Jack-In-The-Box: Rodney Allen Rippey plugs Jumbo Jack with little girl

20) Manischewitz Wine: Sammy Davis, Jr. uses hip language for premium white Concord

21) Schlitz Malt Liquor: Rufus Thomas in pink suit with short pants and cape—after bull breaks in and ruins a room

22) Schlitz: man returns South to his mama who owns or works in a restaurant—nostalgic music and beers

23) Ruffles Potato Chips: middle class black woman testifies to their flavor

24) Campbell's Soup: "Give Me the Campbell Life" mom sings to her kids

25) Ultra Sheen Conditioner: for dry brittle hair—Jayne Kennedy

26) Sulfer-8 Hair Conditioner: "Rows, 'fros—anything goes" with hair relaxer

27) Ultra Sheen Conditioner: young athletic woman works out

28) Ultra Sheen Cosmetics: "Moods" is black couples walking romantically in misty beauty

29) Avon Cosmetics: kids playing double-Dutch jump-rope as the Avon Lady comes to call

30) Folger's Instant Coffee: couple getting ready for work uses Folger's instant crystals

31) Accent: back to basics say cooking instructor—ABC = Always Buy Accent--MSG monosodium glutmate flavor enhancer

32) Alka-Seltzer: black flight attendant brings Alka-Seltzer to man with upset stomach on airplane—w Marvin Kaplan

33) Artra Skin Toner: "sister have different complexions"—combat uneven skin tone with Artra

34) Post Alpha Bits: Michael Jackson and The Jackson Five float away in colorful balloon while singing and talking about this breakfast cereal (1972)

35) Post Alpha Bits: Michael Jackson and The Jackson Five exit a 1970s car and pitch breakfast cereal (1972)

36) Midas Mufflers: Mantan Moreland as Midas man does the anticipation routine with customer looking for a new muffler

37) TV Promo: The Sammy Davis Jr. Show 1966

38) New York Herald Tribune: Claude Brown speaks on camera advertising his book, Manchild in the Promised Land—he urges you to read it, then announcer says it will be a special book bonus in this Sunday's newspaper

39) Westinghouse Washing Machines: racist spot in which African warriors menacingly approach great white hunters, amazed at Westinghouse washers—great goobily woobily (ran once in 1966)

40) PSA: teenager Toni Harper sings "Mama and Daddy Waltz" in 5 minute pitch for 1952 March of Dimes campaign b&w

1757) McDonald's: young black couple order burger and fries-—young romance over a French fry--music is MOR, not rhythm & blues

M1121) Pampers: 3 mothers—one black—with their infants

M155) Coca-Cola: blacks and whites clean the ghetto together—"Our hands have got to be for helpin'"

M716) Nyquil: black man with cold is pampered by mother

M719) PSA: doctor interviews black woman re contraception—she uses rhythm, condoms, and now wants an IUD; a black woman doctor then interviews a white girl who takes the pill—from US government, HEW birth control

M737) Welch Grape Soda: black man and woman, kids all testifying to its great flavor

M1065: Lemon Mr. Clean: black woman smells fresh lemon scent

M357) PSA: black family has child with handicap—from Closer Look

M251) Big Wheels: kiddies plastic tricycles—black and white boys drive em—by Marx

V454) PSA: United Negro College Fund—black female doll walks and falls on its face—help needed—"You don't have to be a Negro to know, it's a tough world without an education"

V3638) Alton Ames Clothing For Gentlemen: Black woman growls—"I think I hate you"—8 seconds

V4726) Alka-Seltzer: football team celebrating victory in locker room—when press leaves, they need Alka-Seltzer after so much champagne—black man is central character

M412) PSA: man bumps into black hippie—packages knocked everywhere—rather than a mean confrontation, they break into smiles—religious from American Lutheran Church

M417) PSA: "Your Girl in Massachusetts" is Pvt. Dolly Jackson—a black soldier shown bowling, training in medical skills—WAC in U.S. Army

M433) US Army: "Your Man in Fort Bragg" is black soldier boxing—he is Jim Wallington and he heads a radio section—shown with wife

V303) Rheingold Beer: Black woman sings the blues—ethnic series for New York City market

V2223) Standard Oil: Curt Andrews is black father and Standard Oil dealer in Chicago

V1117) Crest: black librarian's kid has fewer cavities

V1139) Duz Detergent: black husband angry at wife who gets glasses in soap powder

V1340) Simmons Mattress: black tennis pro Arthur Ashe endorses

V1444) Shake It: black man plugs this powdered drink—and you can get free books, too—on on Yoga!

V195) United Negro College Fund: little black doll toddles and falls on face as narration discloses the dismal statistics on black opportunity—wasted potential—"You don't have to be a Negro to know—it's a tough world without an education"

V2123) PSA: for Urban League Godfrey Cambridge dispels all the stereotypes of blacks—can't sing, can't dance, can't play trumpet-—Not all Negroes can sing or dance or play third base"—but some are secretaries, business executives, etc.

5.718) Crest Toothpaste: Bill Cosby as Mr. Tooth Decay and hams it up about shiny tooth--but he's foiled by Crest

5.724) Crest Toothpaste: Bill Cosby as Mr. Tooth Decay with his friend Mr. Bacteria--both are foiled

17.27) Greyhound Bus: black cast

14.343) Boxing: Mohammed Ali knockouts fighter and sparing with another—Then Jerry Quarry scenes—Silent but meant to promo the Ali-Quarry bout

11.246) Blasters, Bonneville Salt Flats: funky black singers and four white boys with their toy cars

9.27) Bounty Paper Towels: Rosie with black policewoman and white woman

9.124) Lysol Spray: black family with same anti-smell message as No. 23

8.83) U.S. Air Force: Sammy Davis, Jr. sings theme song and speaks of how you should "dig it" with USAF—black couple shown

8.644) PSA: fix up your credit problems black couple having financial problems

8.420) PSA: Campaign for Human Development focus on Buckeye-Woodlawn Community black woman and her kids

8.358) PSA: Reading is Fundamental (RIF) shows black child in New York ghetto

8.332) United Negro College Fund: Hank Aaron PSA

8.231) US Army: Army ROTC Hispanic, woman, black pitch

8.232) US Air Force: pitch for Air Force Academy admissions, pitched at blacks with Lou Rawls voice over

9) Awake Orange Drink: Lena Horne makes her first commercial—says she finds it difficult to say anything she doesn't believe—announcer encourages her to try Awake—she thinks it tastes more like fresh than [word purposely garbled here] orange juice BLACK

8.361) PSA: black student closes his locker—for Basic Educational Opportunity Grants

8.512) PSA: man from the March of Dimes talks to black woman re prenatal—urges women to take less medicine

14.11) Tenafly: TV promo for NBC series about black police detective stars James McEachin

14.12) The Flip Wilson Show: promo for TV show

7.113) Campbell's Soups: black woman sings "Give me the Campbell life"

7.1121) McDonald's: Ronald, black kids go to McDonald's after riding bikes

7.29) Burger King: black family and black waitress

5.351) Sulphur-8: black man getting cornrows helps fight dandruff—scalp conditioner

5.521) Avon: women in home—black woman—1976

5.529) Head And Shoulders Shampoo: black student home from college—mom and sister give him this shampoo

5.532) Ambi Moisturizer: for black women's skin

5.533) Ambi Sun Oil: black couple on the beach

5.534) Ambi Moisturizer: black actress on stage as spokeswoman

4.615) Rheingold: black female singer upper middle-class black folks having party

2.1036) Sunoco Gasoline: black station owner's daughter is getting married and she wants roses and he has three other pretty daughters—I can be very friendly

4.719) Schaeffer: black basketball star Marquis Haynes and the Harlem Magicians do tricks while whites admire tricks

2.255) AAMCO: black man takes his car to AAMCO

Political Advertising

[Political TV spot] Eisenhower Answers America: 1 minute

a) Black man—"never had it so good" (from 1952 presidential campaign)

W. Lee O'Daniel for Democratic Nomination I: for Democratic party primary July 28, 1956 this is a 15-minute (800') statement by unsuccessful candidate for nomination for governor of Texas. Especially virulent in his attack on the "nine old men" whose recent decision on school integration threatens "to mongrelize" Texas and the nation. From WBAP in last week of campaign.

W. Lee O'Daniel for Democratic Nomination II: half-hour program for O'Daniel features his fire engine and a country-western band with singers. O'Daniel speaks on his three main issues: corruption, helping the less fortunate, and segregation forever

Carl Sanders for Governor: Carl E. Sanders running in Georgia governorship primary discusses his plans to renovate and invigorate the state's dismal educational system—from grade school through graduate school (primary election is September 12—three other candidates running) 1200' half-hour kinescope

Non-Television Films

Comedies

Two Black Crows Films: 1600' reel with the following 1930s shorts produced by Educational Pictures and starring white minstrel "dialecticians" in blackface--Mack and Moran as the Two Black Crows

1) As The Crow Flies: the Two Black Crows accidentally flying an airplane (1933)

2) Hot Hoofs: the Two Black Crows buy a race horse (1933)

Lucky Gamblers: stars Lollypop Jones, Edith Graves (an All American film from 1946)

Our Gang: many films in this series--including Buckwheat, Stymie, Ernie, and other black characters

Unexpected Wealth: racist Our Gang comedy with Buckwheat rich fantasy 400'

Cartoon: Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarfs: Warner's Brothers racist cartoon (122642)

Cartoon: Cinderella (with black stereotyped genie)

Cartoon: In Darkest Africa, The Little King--with black cannibals

Cartoon: Little Black Sambo in Technicolor

Uncle Tom's Cabin: 400' silent comedy w baby Billy Barty—all black roles are played by chimpanzees (mid-1920s)

A Kid in Africa: Shirley Temple in black Africa (Educational Films) ca. 1932

Mickey's Covered Wagon: Mickey McGuire film from early 1930s featuring Mickey Rooney and Billy Barty

Amos 'n' Andy: Rasslin' Match (Van Beuren 1934)

Amos 'n' Andy: The Lion Tamer (Van Beuren 1934)

All This and Rabbit Stew: Warner Brothers Cartoon (91341)

Mantania: from Astor Pictures w all-black cast with musical numbers and Mantan Moreland as standup comedian star—also features Butterbeans 1946 8-4D

Sports Films

Sports Cavalcade: from All American Digest, black sports newsreel with sports writer Fay Young (spring 1946):

1) black baseball leagues; 2) Duke Slater and Vulcan Bowl football; 3) men's and women's track; 4) women golfers; 5) women's softball; 6) women life guard; 7) equestrian and woman jockey; 8) roller skating rink; 9) ice skating; 10) skeet shooting; 11) bicycling; 12) 1946 Soap Box Derby; 13) Kenny Washington and Coach Cunningham; 14) rodeo; 15) Althea Gibson and tennis; 16) bowling; 17) boxer Jimmy Bevans; 18) wrestling; 19) Washington Bears vs. Kentucky State All Stars basketball; 20) Joe Louis; 21) Jackie Robinson

Happy Golf: Grantland Rice Sportlight from 1929 is racist (w Alex Morrison and black men who hold the tee and golf ball in their mouths)

The Harlem Globetrotters: Castle color film

The Harlem Magicians: 400' from 1958 features Marcus Haines (narrator is Bill Stern)

Our Sights on Africa: produced by the Lyman Gun Sight Corporation for its All-American gun sights—shows how hunters use sights to kill African big game—rhino shown as the prime target (800' from 1950s)

The Real Joe Louis: US Army film of Joe Louis up to 1946—especially Louis during World War II

Misc. Sports Films I: 1600'

a: Monarchs of the Ring (Official Filmssilent400') 92227Schmeiling KOs Louis—61936Louis KOs Schmeiling—1938Louis KOs Galento—72839

Celebrity Newreel: 400' reel with silent newsreel scenes of the following 1960s people:

—Joe Louis introduces former boxing champion Joe Frazier who sings and dances in abortive career move black sports

News And Documentaries

All American News: black newsreel from 1945 400' reel

1) Chicago digs out of snow—black kids frolic in snow

2) Mr. Lucas has been steward for four presidents—from Harding to Truman—retires—he is interviewed

3) break ground in Washington, D.C. for new theater for blacks

4) Basketball team Chicago Collegians beat white Indianapolis All Stars 50-4—audience is all black

5) Black Ration Board in Baltimore is given award by OPA for a job well done—the Etting Street Board

6) Joe Louis' young daughter plays at the piano—mother is there, too

7) middle class young women at Midway Hall stage party for black soldiers

The Negro In...: series of 400' promotional films sponsored by Chesterfield cigarettes and featuring Etta Moten Barnett and Claude Barnett—from 1950 by All American Newsreel—now called American Newsreel

The Negro In Entertainment: hosted by Claude A. Barnett, Etta Moten Barnett, and Pittsburgh Courier managing editor Bill Nunn—short musical excerpts include the following:

—W.C. Handy (S)

—Ethel Waters

—Sugar Chile Robinson

—Una Mae Carlisle

—Duke Ellington

—Louis Armstrong (S)

—Bill Robinson

—Fats Waller

Nunn And C. Barnett Plug Chesterfields

—Janet Collins Met prima ballerina

—Todd Duncan (S)

—The King's Choir

—Camella Williams Met sporano

—Laurence Winters baritone sings lengthy excerpt from "The Song of the Open Road"

Skilled Hands: Etta Moten Barnett and art history professor discuss black artists—this is a truncated version of ONE TENTH OF A NATION "The Arts" (see below), edited to allow for hosts to speak and to endorse Chesterfield cigarettes

One Tenth Of A Nation: series from American Newsreel spotlighting African-American achievements and achievers 400'

The Arts--links African-American art to Africa

1) Charles White is New York City painter

2) Ernest Critchlow—Harriet Tubman relatives visit his studio—illustrator

3) Ann Petry is author of The Narrows

4) Gordon Parks photographer at Time magazine—he also a composer—he is 41 years old

5) Jewel Simon: sculptress and painter in Atlanta

6) Jessie Mae Robinson is composer in Los Angeles writes pop songs

7) Ulysses Kay: BMI consultant on modern classical music

8) Art Smith: Greenwich Village metal jewelry designer

9) Frank Neal: custom-made serving trays—formerly a Katherine Dunham dancer—runs Tray House

10) Christopher Bean: pottery in Hartford—ceramic artist

11) Eugene Grigsby: Phoenix modern painter—desert landscapes

12) Yvonne Hunt: painter who is shown at Atlanta University Art Show—annual cultural event since 1942

The Press (1953)

1) montage of Negro press and magazines--news service and newsreel--show first black newspaper in USA

2) tour plant of Baltimore Afro-American newspaper—Cliff Mckay is editor--shows how newspaper is prepared and printed

3) Miami Times editor-publisher is Garth Reeves

4) Kansas City The Call founded in 1919—inside press plant

5) Chicago Defender—inside composing room—John Singstack is publisher-editor

6) Los Angeles Sentinel—Dora Moore guides it as business manager--truck delivers stacks of newspapers to LA street corner

7) Pittsburgh Courier is the leading black newspaper—editors William Nunn and P.K. Prentiss

8) quick scenes of Amsterdam News, The New York Age- Defender, but the Atlanta World is the only daily

9) Associated Negro Press--Chicago headquarters--founder Claude Barnett is profiled—Freddi Henderson is fashion editor--Hollywood gossip writer Harry Lovett interviews Ruby Dandridge--Gladys Graham covers New York—Samuel Perry is at United Nations—Alice Dunnigan is female White House correspondent—Bankhold Timothy is African covering Africa (seen with Kwami Nkhruma)—Samuel Morris covers Europe from London

10) Arch Parsons is UN correspondent for New York Herald- Tribune—one of the few blacks in a national newspaper

11) black radio newscasters—G. James Fleming at WLIB in New York City--George Clark at WLEE in Richmond VA

12) American Newsreel spotlighted—inside the plant—started since 1941

13) Our World is black magazine—Ebony and Jet from Johnson Publishing in Chicago—John Johnson seen in long shot

Parade Of Progress

1) Eisenhower inaugurated--new black faces—Mrs. Jane Morrow Spaulding is new bureaucrat—Vernon F. Green is lawyer in Post Office Department—Scoville Richardson on Federal Parole Board—Roberta Church in Labor Departmen—Mrs. Carmel Carrington Marr advisor to Henry Cabot Lodge on Far East—Louis Toomer to Treasury Dept--E. Frederick Morrow works with Commerce Dept

2) Korean War over—Calvin Royal is among first to return to USA

3) George Washington Carver's monument unveiled in his Missouri hometown

4) Rufus Clement of Atlanta University voted to Atlanta city government

5) Hulan Jack elected President of Borough of Manhattan in New York City

6) Polar explorer Matthew Henson honored—seen shaking hands with Dr. Channing Tobias

7) architect Paul Williams honored in St. Louis—show some of his buildings

8) author Ralph Ellison honored for The Invisible Man—Frederick Lewis Allen makes the award

9) Olivet Baptist headed by Dr. J.H. Jackson in Chicago

10) Dr. Ralph Bunche in India

11) Mystic Shrine Nobles gather in Denver—parade in full garb

12) Elks Club convention meets in Atlanta—parade

13) Dorthea Towles (see below, too) is international fashion model

14) men in short-pants suits

15) W.C. Handy is 80 years old—smoking a cigarette

16) Porgy and Bess revived with Cab Calloway as Sportin' Life—also Noble Sissel

17) Janet Collins in ballerina

18) Take a Giant Step is first black-written Broadway drama—Lewis Peterson wrote it

19) Athletes: Milton Campbell in track, Roy Campanella and other Dodgers lose to Yankees in World Series—Campy organized all-Negro team for barnstorming in off-season—this many black players considered a sign of racial integration in major league baseball

NewsMakers

1) Maude Callen is nurse-widwife in rural South Carolina-- now has a clinic

2) General Benjamin O. Davis--on Army uniform—with Harry Truman at time of retirement

3) Dr. F.D. Patterson of the Phelps-Scopes Fund--Patterson invented United Negro College Fund—he visits Nigeria

4) Joe Louis seen in World War II era--sparring--now with Eleanor Roosevelt and the Mile o' Dimes [March of Dimes] in Washington--in retirement playing ping-pong professionally

5) Philippa Schyler is emerging opera singer

6) Thurgood Marshall at banquet being honored

7) W. C. Handy marries at age 80

8) ex-boxing champ Henry Amrstrong greeted on church steps by Barney Ross--he is now an ordained minister

9) George W. Crawford is Corporation Counsel for Hartford

10) Nat King Cole wedding in 1945—wedding shots—he goes on vacation with bride—at Savoy Ballroom

11) actor Juano Hernandez at his resort in Puerto Rico

12) Matthew Henson looks at Eskimo pictures—at New York Customs Office—greeted now by mayor of Philadelphia

13) Ralph Bunche returns in 1949 from Near East--good shots of him at Howard University as professor—testimonial banquet in New York City, Eleanor Roosevelt is there—Bunche Speaks

14) Clifford Alexander is still a junior class leader at Harvard—predict bright accomplishments in his future

Achievements

1) Daniel James is U.S. Air Force Major—aviator just back from Korean War

2) starlets Vera Francis is spotlighted—appeared in movie The President's Lady

3) architect Paul Williams spotlighted—his office and buildings—Saks-Fifth Avenue building in Beverly Hills, homes of William S. Paley and Freeman Gosden, Al Jolson monument,, and his own home where he and wife smoke cigarettes

4) Eslanda's Bridal Services prepares weddings for middle-class couples in Washington, D.C.

5) Athalena Lathan is designer and maker of women's gloves in Chicago

6) K. C. Ferguson is shoeshine boy—but he writes popular songs—I'm Free is one of his tunes

7) Verna A. Hickman is administrator at Golden State Mutual Life Insurance Co. in California

8) Dr. J. Alexander Summerville is multi-talented—writes books (Man of Color), is on Police Commission in Los Angeles, and is dentist

9) Fried DeKnight is the food editor of Ebony magazine—tests recipes

10) Cortez Peters runs business school, in Washington, D.C.—he is typewriter speed champion—types wearing mittens

11) Dorthea Towles is model (see above) who is now a radio personality on WOV—seen in studio with cigarette

12) Charles Brown has worked at British embassy for 65 years!--he is retiring

13) Lawrence Cook is last person to makes piano rolls—turns out 3 musical arrangements a week

14) Jackie Ormes is a comic book cartoonist—draws Torchie and Heartbreak characters—she designed black toy doll called Patty Jo—seen holding the doll

Religion

1) Captain Julius Carter is U.S. Air Force Chaplin—back from Korean War to resume duties at his Long Island church

2) focus on Abyssinian Baptist Church—show choir and Sunday School in Harlem

3) Concord Baptist Church in Brooklyn was gutted by fire—pastor Gardner Taylor and parishioners will rebuild

4) National Baptist Convention auxiliaries hold convention in Brooklyn—parade—show former leader D.V. Jemison and new leader J.H. Jackson

5) Claude L. Franklin is head of Mt. Lebanon Baptist Church in Brooklyn--New York City Mayor Wagner is there, too

6) Samuel Sweeney and H. J. McDonald of St. Mark's Methodist church in New York City

7) spotlight Grant Chapel in Alburquerque, New Mexico—show founders Reverand and Mrs.. C. N. Austin

8) Kwansi ceremony performed at St. Martin's Episcopal church in New York City

9) youth activities spotlighted at St. Phillip's Episcopal church in Harlem

10) focus on African-American Roman Catholics—Sisters of Providence is black order of nuns centered in Baltimore—Fr. Chester C. Ball is first black priest in Washington, D.C.—St. Augustine Seminary in Mississippi trains black men for priesthood

Farming

1) Research colleges--North Carolina A & T—Tuskegee school of veterinary medicine—Prairie View A & M scenes of gutting a pig and cutting meat

2) cotton farming discussed—good shots of blacks picking cotton in the fields, weighing their pick

3) lengthy piece on Eugene King, the North Carolina farmer of the year, who raises and cures and sells tobacco

4) Texas farmer raises sweet potatoes and roses

5) Mississippi farmer raises rice

6) woman runs dairy farm in Mississippi

7) county agents lauded

8) cattle ranching, sheep

9) Arthur Mays in Homestead, Florida has taken bad coral-

plagued land and has created a prosperous farm—raises tomatoes

10) Mr. and Mrs. Tom Stewart first blacks to receive government loan in 1949 Arkansas

11) black 4-H Clubs--focus on North Carolina training camp

Newsreel: small town of Manchester, Georgia tries to stem ebb of its citizens by community organizing to build new schools from old ones—and industry has helped—two schools are racially segregated

Enterprise: story of Buchanan, Georgia and how in early postwar years, citizens invited northern factory for Arrow Shirts to locate there, thereby saving vitality of the village—excellent for soldiers and small town Americana in 1947-1948—cash register, magazine covers, radio, movie theater facade, workers with simple tasks now replaced by machines—Cluett, Peabody film re "exurban renewal" and plight of small towns—all this in rural Georgia with absolutely NO BLACKS seen—also good for New York City shots at beginning and end, Ebbets Field and Dodger baseball pitcher Whip Wyatt who manages local team—Kodachrome color

[Army-Navy] Screen Magazine No. 43 (1945) 8-10A

1) G.I. Bills Of Rights: troops return in 1918 from World War I—parade in 1918--segue to G.I.s now—shot of black soldier on stretcher—Serviceman's Readjustment Act of 1944 is "The G.I. Bill"— explain rules of this law—scenes of men looking for jobs—show houses, cars [Army-Navy] Screen Magazine No. 31 (1943)

1) Fifth Army Mobile Expeditionary Station: G.I. radio station in Italy—play Bob Hope Show transcription to troops in field--follow celebrities visiting troops—Irving Berlin with "This Is the Army" chorus—good for role of popular radio at war—black soldier chorus sings Harlem tune "What the Well-Dressed Man in Harlem Will Wear"—black soldiers jive dancing to this broadcast—Marlene Dietrich speaks on mike—Irving Berlin speaks and sings his new song "The 5th Army Is Where My Heart Is"

War Film No. 15: War Communique No. 4—early 1944

2) Roll of Honor: pays homage to African-American soldiers at Munda airfield in South Pacific—they are construction units repairing airstrip after its capture from Japanese—civil rights message is being delivered re blacks in this segment

Negro Colleges in Wartime: Howard, Hampton Institute, Tuskegee, and other black colleges training black men and women for duty in World War II

WE'VE COME A LONG, LONG WAY: re progress of blacks in USA—especially during World War II (from The Negro Marches On, Inc.; producer Jack Goldberg) host: Elder Solomon Lightfoot Micheaux 75 minutes 1945

SHOT LIST:

Reel 1: Lt. Lester Collins is dead; Dr. G.W. Carver working in lab visit Black unit of AACgood New York City street scenes high-rises, slums, tenements, Harlem hospital, traveling hospital is trailer driving into small rural towns schools and curses, large urban stone churches calls Hitler a "global werewolf"—still picture of "the five men of Velish" who are Russian peasants hanged by Nazis 6 minute montage of Harlem street scenes of theaters, nightclubs, shopping on street, busses, cops, firemen, civil defense, USO montage of black newspaper headlines musical stars Paul Robeson, Cab Calloway, Nina Mae McKinny, Lena Horne shot of "Negro Macbeth" production: REEL 2—anti-Italian on Ethiopian war anti-Japanese with shots of Japanese in China fighting and frisking Chinese more police marching band Franklin Roosevelt designates 121541 as Bill of Rights Day and makes long statement cotton picking black radio play from WTOP women in wartime jobs—black men, too black James P. Amos of the FBINegro colleges in wartime FDR visits Tuskegee daycare nursery city swimming pool black AEF troops parade in 1917 buying war stamps while entering movie theater French honor black troops of WWI Mary McLeod Bethune appears "to speak for the women of my race" soldiers with long bit re black women in armed forces unidentified old black man speaks more Harlem street scenes black colleges with troops on campus black Army units drilling in South Pacific, Europe, Africa, building camps in Europe Henry Wallace in Latin America FDR in Liberia Liberian president at White House99th Pursuit Squadron Dorie Miller still photo black sailors at religious services Joe Louis saying "I'm only doing what any red-blooded American would do" and that "God is on our side"

Alinsky I: Organizing for Power--The Alinsky Approach: "Building an Organization" 1600' reel about Saul Alinsky's BUILD organization in Buffalo following urban riots in the 1960s—from National Film Board of Canada

Alinsky II: Organizing for Power—The Alinsky Approach: Through Conflict to Negotiation: 1200' reel concerns Saul Alinsky in Rochester

United States Civil Rights Commission: the following two reels contain hearings of USCRC conducted in the 1960s:

I. Civil Rights Commission I: hearings held in Jackson, Mississippi in February 16-20, 1965--Father Theodore Hesburgh is Commission member—1600' B&W

II. Civil Rights Commission II: "Path to Nowhere" hearings before Commission held in Birmingham, Alabama in 1969—2000' color reel fading

Black Power: film re Black Power groups on West Coast (no opcl) circa 1967—includes Muhammewd Ali, Ron Karenga of US

John Hope Franklin: he delivers part of the Jefferson Lecture on the Humanities for NEH (topic is "Racial Equality in America" and this is Part I "The Dream Deferred" series) 42876

Oh, Freedom: The Story of the Civil Rights Movement: Rev. Andrew Young narrates capsule history of Civil Rights movement in 1960s (ca. 1970)

A City Decides: re the integration of public schools in St. Louis (produced for the Fund for the Republic; directed by Charles Guggenheim) 1957

Children Without: NEA re inner city Detroit, poor children (white) and poor home life and schooling they receive (Charles Guggenheim wrote and directed) copy. 1964 by National Education Association

Miles of Smiles, Years of Struggle: 1982 documentary history of the Pullman Porters Union—color with vintage footage included 20-6B

Brotherhood of Man: choppy cartoon re brotherhood (circa late 1940s)

The Fayette Story: looks at Fayette, Mississippi now that Charles Evers is mayor (Warren Schloat production in 1970)

I'm a Man: film from Peter Rosen re black activist John Barber of New Haven who in 1968 purposefully marched through the streets carrying an African spear and was arrested (filmed in October 1968 with much reference to inner city rebellion, "pyro—power") 1970 copyright

Church of Christ Films: two 400' films from United Church of Christ in mid-1960s

a) Racial Justice Now: a statement by UCC President Herbster

b) Witness in Washington: re Vice-President Hubert Humphrey

The Savages: 1200' exploration of white and black attitudes in Venice, California (copyr. 1967 by Alan Gorg)

The Battle of the Bicentennial: protest of U.S government policies by leftist in Philadelphia in 1976--the "Rich Off Our Backs Movement" Cine News circa 1977—color—last half hour only

The Road Ahead: National Urban League film looks at black social conditions (stars young Robert Hooks circa 1958)

Red November, Black November: 45-minute film from 1980 by the Communist Workers Party focusing on the murders in 1979 of four of its strikers by members of the Ku Klux Klan (color)

Anarchy, U.S.A.: last 60 minutes of this anti-Communist, anti-civil rights, anti-Black film from mid-1960s—John Birch Society film

Conversations: black young man and white man discuss black demands for compensation for 300 years of free slave labor (circa 1970)

Experiment on 114th Street: studies tenant rehabilitation program in New York City (O.E.E.O. film from Maysles Films) late 1960s

Haile Selassie I Visits the United States: USIS film re his visit to the U.S. in 1959

Curiosities: 1600' theatrical film from 1930 with the following highlights:—Masai customers—shows bare-breasted Masai women of Africa

Jungle Yachts in the Belgian Congo: 10th Gatti Expedition into the Congo assays peoples and animal life—has footage of rare okapi (looks like a short giraffe with zebra stripes)—Commander Gatti and his crew travel in large state-of-the-art trailers called "jungle yachts" —B&W film from International-Harvester in 1930s 8-4B

For Land's Sake: film of the Gatti-Hallicrafters Expedition in trucks and trailers travel into British East Africa in 1940s—animals and Masai and Xonga people—footage of wild animals includes rhinoceros family, cheetahs, zebras, lions—excellent Agfacolor Wilding production for International-Harvester whose trucks and trailers were used 8-4B

SOUTH AFRICAN SHORTS: collection of silent films from South Africa focuses on tribes, wildlife and natural wonders—gorgeous Technicolor footage from 1940s? 20-2C

1) AFRICAN MINE DANCES: show mines, then footage of many dancers and dances—including: Zingili, Xhosa, Chopi, and Gum Boot dance—distributed by African Consolidated Films, Johannesburg

2) Bushmen Of The Kalahari: desert life of Bushmen—two reels totals 20 minutes—photographer C.P. De L. Beyers

3) The XHOSA

4) Animal Life in Africa: wild animals—lions, antelope, etc.

5) Victoria Falls: excellent footage of this site

I'll Sing Not Cry: gorgeous Kodachrome color exploration of what makes the African culture—stresses the singing of Africans—filmed among the Umbundu people of Angola 12-25D

The Baltimore Plan: re urban renovation in Baltimore (1953)

A Time for Freedom: half-hour film re black march on Washington in 51757, third anniversary of Brown vs. Board decision—Martin Luther King, Bayard Rustin, Adam Clayton Powell Jr., A. Phillip Randolph

Black Panthers: French color documentary from 1969 (color—1200')

Emerging African States [my title]: 800' tour of African states from Liberia, Gold Coast, Nigeria--to Kenya, Uganda, South Africa—long piece on peaceful Belgian Congo—has Cold War conclusion—circa 1956

African Economic Development: an economic survey of African development in terms of natural and human resources—has Cold War framework since Africa is explained in terms of the Free World struggle (1600' from 1956—U.S. government film from Pentagon War Office—M.F. 30 8697)—this is Part 4 of a larger film

TODAY: this is a USIA newsreel series re American policies and their impact on Africa (several here from 1961-62) (produced by Hearst Metrotone News)

Program #50:

1) first anniversary of Ivory Coast

2) US road building equipment to Togo

3) Independence Day for Gabon

4) modern midwifery in Lagos, Nigeria

5) Liberia's Iron Mountain LAMCO building railroad

6) death of Dag Hammerskjold

Program #61 (10962)

1) representatives from the Republic of Congo (Brazzaville) visit lumber industry in Northwestern USA

2) Africans Confer: Mrs. Azikewe opens women's leadership training institute in Nigeria; African youth in Guinea meet with Sekou Toure

3) Ghanaian featherweight boxer Floyd Robinson wins and retains the world title

4) agricultural school in Southern Dahomey

5) Uganda preparing for its independence

Program #62

1) airlift to the Rufiji Valley in Tanganyka conducted by U.S. relief agencies via helicopter spring rains have flooded area

2) Rwanda becomes independent nation on July 1, 1962 celebration ceremony Watusi dancers Rwanda joins other African nations at United Nations along with Brundi

3) Tunis International Sports Festival African athletes

4) Seeds of Knowledge: Gabonese women at University of Minnesota Somali labor leader in Stockton and Kenyan student in California Ugandans and Kenyans visit county fair in Bloomington, Illinois

SND 2-1: c) Operation Noah's Ark is plan to rescue thousands of wild animals facing drowning as new Kariba Dam in southeast Africa backs up waters of Zambesi river SND 2-6: Nigeria celebrates its independence—a giant step for awakening Africa SND 3-8: March 1961

a) Powder Keg in the Congo: special report on internal problems in the Congo Republic SND 8-10: May 1966

a) The Fallen Idol concerns the rise and fall of African leader Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana

The Negro American: 800' color re the history of blacks in America

East Africa [--Two Life Styles]: 800' education re village and city life in East Africa 1970s

1941 Rose Parade: Kodachrome color scenes from Tournament of Roses parade on January 1, 1941—theme: "America in Flowers"—splicy—black child called "pickaninny" 400'

The Negro Soldier: classic documentary re African-American troops in World War II—Frank Capra directed

Black Leaders: short press conference statement by three prominent African-American leaders at end of 1960s—a) Malcolm X, b) H. Rap Brown, c) Ralph David Abernethy 8-5C

Cotton Growing: 1928—some scenes of Blacks picking cotton Eastman Educational 400'

Old South: re U.S. South before Civil War 1932—powerful racist images Eastman Educational 400'

All My Babies: film meant to improve work of midwives in rural Georgia in 1952—black midwife in Albany, Georgia is focus of film—good for rural African-American social life 20-6B

Feature Film Reviews And Excerpts

Way Down South1939 (1) Clarence Muse and Langston Hughes co-writers, Bobby Breen stars Hall Johnson Choir PD

The Birth of a Nation (1917): 1600' reel contains post-Civil War scenes—including South Carolina legislature with radical Negroes—rape scene—rise of Ku Klux Klan

Black Shadows [on the Silver Screen]: documentary re the history of African-Americans in film—includes shots of Booker T. Washington, early black films, Bert Williams, Lincoln Motion Picture Co., Harlem, Paul Robeson, etc. 20-9A

Black Stereotypes: 1200' reel with feature film excerpts as follows:

Black Maid: Hattie Noel in scene from feature film

Black Cook: Louise Beavers—preceded by pancake mix image from Imitation of Life

Stupid Valet: Mantan Moreland (from The Case of Dr. RX)

Physical Abuse: Mantan Moreland and Shem Howard

Black Woman Over Black Man: Beavers humiliates and threatens black man in scene

Stepin Fetchit: montage with Dick Powell

Stepin Fetchit: with Hoot Gibson (Wild Horse 1931)

Stereotyes: Cracked Nuts scene with dice and ghosts (1942)

1) Tick...Tick...Tick: Jim Brown (1970)

2) Superfly T.N.T.: Ron O'Neal (film excerpt) Alex Haley wrote script (1973)

3) Hit Man: Bernie Casey (1973)

4) Black Caesar: Fred Williamson (1973)

5) Black Belt Jones: 1978

6) Drum: Ken Norton (1976)

7) The Spook Who Sat By The Door: Richard Roundtree directed by Gordon Parks (1972)

8) Shaft: 1971

9) Shaft's Big Score: 1972

10) Cool Breeze: 1972

11) The Greatest: Muhammad Ali (1977)

12) Blacula—moved to Lake County Lecture reel (V-20)

13) Melinda: 1972

14) Coffy: Pam Grier (1973)

15) Claudine: James Earl Jones, Diahann Carroll (1974)

16) Together, Brothers (1974) three clips from film

17) Bucktown: Fred Williamson, Pam Grier (1975)

18) Black Caesar: three clips from film (1973)

19) Cornbread, Earl And Me: Keith Wilkins (1975)

20) Cooley High: based on life of Eric Monte (1975)

That Man Bolt: last 30 minutes

Cry the Beloved Country: opening 10 minutes

Superfly T.N.T: opening 30 minutes

Brothers: production short

Black Orpheus: 10-minute musical excert with lip sync off

Black Film Trailers: reviews all-Black films from 1930s and 1940s—including Oscar Michaeux films

Complete Feature Films

Cornbread, Earl and Me1975 (2)

The Man1972 (3)

Harlem Rides the Range1938 (1)

Song of Freedom1936 (2)

Sanders of the River1936 (2)

Yes Sir, Mr. Bones July 1951 (1)

Reet, Petite and Gone1946 (2)

The Jackie Robinson Story May 1950 (2)

The Joe Louis Story

Maury1973 (3)

Jack Johnson1971 (2) Documentary

Make Believe Ballroom: includes Nat King Cole and Toni Fisher performances (1949)

Monterey Pop: w Otis Redding, Jimi Hendrix

Dutchman: released February 1967

Way Down South: written by Langston Hughes and Clarence Muse (1939)

A Raisin in the Sun: last 25 minutes

[The Story of] Doctor Carver: Pete Smith Specialty is a biographical sketch of George Washington Carver from birth to scientific success (Fred Zinneman directed) 1938 400'

Anesthesia: Pete Smith Specialty humorously tracing history of medicine—good race scene with Black servant being abused by white medical students 400'

One Potato, Two Potato: first 20 minutes

Rock and Roll Film Trailers: montage of youth-oriented films from late 1950s—Columbia Pictures

—Juke Box Rhythm w Jack Jones, Jo Morrow, Earl Grant Trio, Johnny Otis, The Treniers, George Jessel

—Let's Rock w Wink Martindale, Julius LaRosa, Phyllis Kirk, Conrad Janis, Paul Anka, The Royal Teens, Roy Hamilton, Danny and the Juniors, Della Reese—"a great story of young love and young rhythm"

—Going Steady w Molly Bee, Alan Reed, Jr., "the hilarious goings-on of the go, go, go generation"

—Don't Knock the Rock w Alan Dale, Dave Aell, Alan Freed, The Treniers, Little Richard, Bill Haley and the Comets

—Senior Prom w Jill Corey, Paul Hampton, Jose Melis, Jimmie Komack, Ed Sullivan, Mitch Miller, Bob Crosby, Connie Boswell, Toni Arden, Freddy Martin, Les Elgart, Louis Prima, Keely Smith

—Calyso Heat Wave w Maya Angelou, Johnny Desmond, Meg Myles, Darla Hood, Dick Whittinghill, The Treniers, The Tarriers, The Hi-Lo's

Religious Films

White Man's God: 1200' drama of white doctor-missionary competing against African tribal witch doctor (Concordia Films)

New Faces of Africa: Kenyan doctor hosts assessment of the new Africa, saying of villagers "they are not savages—just poor, uneducated, and often sick" (mid-1960s from Missionary Education agency of the National Council of Churches) 1200' color

I Am with You: Swedish film re missionaries of the Church of Sweden (Lutheran) working in Mnene, Southern Rhodesia—dramatized but filmed in Africa—dubbed into English— directed by Gosta Stevens—Africans sing In the Sweet Bye and Bye in native tongue (1600' from 1944)

: (400' reel contains four Little Songs on Big Subjects re civil liberties—for A Time for Burning: produced by Lutheran Film Association this is one-hour analysis of church role in the racial problems of Omaha, Nebraska (1966--2000') William C. Jersey film

Selected Negro Spirituals: black singers perform Nobody Knows de Trouble I See, Joshua Fit de Battle of Jericho, and Deep River 19491950 4-17D

History Films 10: (1600') b) The Plantation System in Southern Life

Our Basic Civil Rights: Coronet civil rights film raises powerful questions early in youth culture about civil rights and realities 1950D

The Navy Steward: U.S. Navy training film for Blacks in 1954 reveals the servant role for African-Americans serving (literally) in the Navy

From the Inside Out: study of ghetto life produced by "Negro teenagers of North Richmond, California" to inform "the white community" of their reality (mid-1960s)

ADL Songs elementary-schools has still cartoons and lyrics stressing brotherhood and tolerance from The Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith—music is copyrighted 1947 (film is 1953)

a) "Ol' Commodore Gray"

b) "Columbus Said, 'Si, Si, Signore'"

c) "What Makes a Good American?"

d) "The Brown-Skinned Cow"

A Time to Listen [A Time to Think]: recruitment of minorities—especially blacks—into US Navy (800')

Lonnie's Day: day in the life of a ghetto boy

Felicia: young black girl from Watts

Old Black Joe: color film short of this song with all-Black heaven 100'

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