Civil rights and race relations in the USA, Miscellaneous footage, including the Ku Klux Klan; voting in Selma; and the death of Malcolm X
- Popular Culture: Section I
- Title
- Civil rights and race relations in the USA, Miscellaneous footage, including the Ku Klux Klan; voting in Selma; and the death of Malcolm X
- Date
- 1965
- Document Type
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- Video
- Themes
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- Civil Rights and Race Relations
- Description
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2.4.65. Sound. Camden, Alabama. Mayor Reg Albritton, stops African American people going to Court House. Camera pans to crowd of African Americans.
6.5.65. Silent. Hayneville, Alabama. Ku Klux Klan murder trial. Car stops and four men wearing shirts and sunglasses get out. Two men talking, one produces a revolver (non-threatening) in front of photographers. The KKK's lawyer, Matt Murphy, (with the revolver) being interviewed. Men wearing sunglasses (members of the National States Rights Party) handing out copies of their organisation's pro-segregation newspaper.
25.2.65. Silent. Selma, Alabama. Student march dispersed. Numerous African American students in front of Selma's courthouse and marching along path.
Wilson Baker, Selma's Public Safety Director, reasons with the marchers. The marchers singing. The demonstrators on their knees praying and then walking away.
5.2.65. Silent. Selma, Alabama. C. T. Vivien, one of Martin Luther King's assistants, approaches Selma's courthouse. Sheriff Jem Clark, in helmet and carrying baton, is there to meet him and pulls him away from its entrance. Vivien claims that Clark is preventing seventy African American people from registering to vote. Eventually the African American people are marched into the courthouse, under arrest.
23.2.65. Silent. Atlanta, Georgia. Restaurant formerly owned by ardent segregationist Lester Maddox, reopens under new management and serves African American man. After leaving restaurant, he is seen standing in the street and lighting a cigar.
24.2.65. Sound. Martin Luther King talking to camera.
People queuing outside the Unity Funeral Home in New York where Malcolm X's body is displayed. Policemen on rooftops. Policeman coming out of the funeral home's entrance. African American woman being interviewed.
9.3.65. Silent. Selma, Alabama. Man walking with briefcase that has 'One Man One Vote' written on its side. Crowd of African American people being addressed by African American man. He speaks of marching to Montgomery and having a conference with Mr Wallace (the Governor of Alabama). Policeman carrying gas mask.
10.8.65. Silent. Americus, Georgia. Ku Klux Klan parade: white men in white hoods. The parade kneels to pray. Women of the KKK. African American men looking on. Group of people outside church which they are attempting to integrate. Police arrest some of the people, they are led away to the awaiting police cars.
- Audible
- Sound and Silent
- Colour
- Black and White
- Credit
- Huntley Film Archives [Please Note: downloading video content is strictly prohibited]
- Duration
- 00:09:55
- Library / Archive
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- Huntley Film Archives