CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT

CIVIL RIGHTS INTERVIEWS: PALMER & MATHIS

A defining moment in the American civil rights movement, Martin Luther King delivers a speech from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington. Co-production with the BBC.

8/7/2015

00:00:00:00 SOT SCLC Joseph Lowery reflects on Civil Rights movement...compares movement of past w present. (0:00)/

Activists work to register African American voters in Selma, Alabama during the Civil Rights Movement. African Americans and White Americans demonstrate and march for civil rights. A man holds a microphone in his hand. A man at the demonstration takes photos with a camera. A large crowd of demonstrators. Two cars in the foreground. African American civil rights movement leader John Lewis is interviewed by media persons. Location: Selma Alabama USA. Date: 1965.

b&w - Bay Area civil rights and peace movements in San Francisco from 1960 to 1965 - the Free Speech Movement - protest - demonstration - aerial city - sophisticated people get out of cars - rich - poor - poverty - pedestrians - apartment building - tenement - residential area - University of California Berkeley - students - college - newspaper headline - racial tension - protest signs - protesters - Vietnam - equal hiring - singing

Senator Robert F. Kennedy speaks about the civil rights movement and how violence is wrong no matter why it is used.

/ NAACP pro-integration demonstrators from Pleasant Grove Baptist Church arrives at Doris Miller Auditorium in response to Governor John Connally's opposition to civil rights legislation / People holding signs from Dallas NAACP saying 'Freedom Now!' / Demonstrators leaving the auditorium parking lot / Demonstration leader Booker T. Bonner walking in front of march / March moves past Bobby Joiner and the Indignant White Citizens Council / March moving up Congress Avenue towards the capitol / Unidentified men going into a municipal building / Police walking out of building.

Video footage from the WBAP-TV television station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story by reporter James Kerr about University of Texas at Dallas political science and economics professor Willmoore Kendall and his opinions about the current state of the civil rights movement. This footage is referenced by the script, "Prof. Kendall," which has not yet been digitized.

Interview Re: Civil Rights Movement

Right-wing film arguing that the civil rights movement and urban disturbances of the 1960s were evidence of a worldwide communist revolution and growing dominance at home. The film warns that communists may be planning to create an independent African American state.

MLK SPEAKS FROM HIS OFFICE ON MOVEMENT OF RACIAL INJUSTICE IN AMERICA. MONEY WON FROM PEACE PRIZE WILL GO TO THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT. "THE AWARD IS NO TO ME PERSONALLY, BUT TO THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT. NOT JUST TO MLK"

06/01/66 A0031566 WASHINGTON - A PHILLIP RANDOLPH, AT WHITE HOUSE CONFEENCE ON CIVIL RIGHTS, : -) LS CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT THE MOST IMPORTANT REV RIGHTS, CALLS CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT THE MOST IMPORTANT REVOLUTION SINCE THE ONE IN 1776 (F - L - S - JAPAN) WA 12394 "ADD CIVIL RIGHTS" SHOWS: (1) SEVERAL SCENES RANDOLPH AT MIKE, NEWSMEN, 7 SECS; (2) SOUND UP, CU RANDOLPH SOF, 1:10. (46FT - 1:17, SHOT 6/1/66) JE302PED CIVIL RIGHTS - US RANDOLPH, PHILIP A - SOF XX / 446 FT / 16 - NEG

9/15/2024

ALAMABA BRIDGE MARCH CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT

/ NAACP pro-integration demonstration moving north on Congress Avenue towards the capitol in response to Governor John Connally's opposition to civil rights legislation / View of demonstation moving past capitol from nearby parking lot / Demonstration moves up Congress Avenue, guarded by police officers.

FTG FOR AARON BROWN CS VO ON DEATH OF CIVIL RIGHTS LEADER AND FOUNDER OF CORE / CONGRESS ON RACIAL EQUALITY JAMES FARMER / CLIPS OF FARMER SPEAKING TO LARGE CROWDS / PRESS / SOME B&W FTG / CIVIL RIGHTS MARCHES W/ MARTIN LUTHER KING JR

Doctor Kenneth Clark, Professor of Psychology at the City College of New York; Director of Fallen Youth Opportunities Unlimited and Research Director, North Pride Center for Interpretation, interviews James Baldwin on civil right movement of African Americans. James Baldwin talks about his personal life during the interview. Location: United States USA. Date: 1963.

The late civil rights activist Rosa Parks talks about the civil rights movement noting, "It was the right thing for us to be and doing."