Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a story about two historic elections for the Dallas Pastors Association. News reporter Bob Welch interviews Reverend Zan W. Holmes, Jr., the organization's first African American president about the relevance of religious organizations to their communities and segregation in churches. Welch then interviews Joseph W. Drew, the first Roman Catholic board member, who discusses the importance of ecumenism.

BLACK AFRICAN AMERICAN MINISTER THE REVEREND F. L. SHUTTLESWORTH FROM NORTH BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA ARRIVES TO SPEAK AT A PUBLIC MEETING.

Titles read: "Music of human lives... sometimes of suffering, often of joy... the Negro Spirituals have been handed down from generation to generation, until the origin of many has been lost. NOW Pathe Pictorial presents - The famous Variety & BBC Masters of Harmony The FOUR MUSKETEERS In 'Ezekiel Saw de Wheel' (Mabel Pearl at the piano)." <br/> <br/>Pathe Studio, London. <br/> <br/>M/S of singing group The Four Musketeers in white tie and tails, standing before the grand piano. Mabel Pearl sits accompanying them as they hum an introduction to their song. Fade out. <br/> <br/>Fade in to shot of The Four Musketeers on a set dressed to resemble the Deep South (United States of America). They are all in blackface; three wear shirts and dungarees while the other one is dressed as a preacher or minister. They sing 'Ezekiel Saw De Wheel' a cappella.

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'Black Billy Sunday' Converts 70 Negroes in Annual Baptism

Kenyan Prime Minister Jomo Kenyatta and other unidentified politicians wave to the camera circa 1963.

ORIG. NEG. 300 FT. SIL MS NEGROES PICKETING IN FRONT OF MORRISON'S CAFETERIA. MS NEGRO CARRYING CIVIL RIGHTS SIGN. MS NEGRO MINISTERS GETTING OUT OF CARS. MS OF THEM TRYING TO ENTER CAFE- TERIA. DOORS ARE LOCKED. MS NEGRO POLICEMAN ASKING THEM TO LEAVE. THEY REFUSE. CU NEGRO POLICEMAN. CU & MS MINISTERS BEING ARRESTED, THEY ARE LINED UP AGAINST WALL OF CAFETERIA WHERE THEY WAIT FOR PADDY WAGON. POLICEMAN FRISKS EACH MAN BEFORE HE GETS IN WAGON. MS MINISTERS OUTSIDE POLICE STATION. CU MORRISON'S CAFETERIA SIGN. CI: GEOGRAPHIC - FLORIDA, JACKSONVILLE. DEMONSTRATIONS - CIVIL RIGHTS. DEMONSTRATIONS - PICKETS. OCCUPATION - POLICEMAN, NEGRO. CIVIL RIGHTS - . JUSTICE - SEARCHES. JUSTICE - ARRESTS.

The War Department presents ""The Negro Soldier"" - AMAZING!!!! Part 1 The Negro Soldier - 1944 - Part of ""Why We Fight"" series Office of War Information through the War Activities Committee of the Motion Picture Industry. The Negro Soldier, part of the Why We Fight series. WWII Anti Nazi propaganda film featuring historical timeline of Blacks fighting in American battles w historical reenactments, engravings, paintings & newsreel footage. The Negro Soldier was a 1944 propaganda film produced by the United States War Department encouraging African-Americans to join the armed forces and otherwise help the war effort. People enter Black church. (good shots of Blacks entering church from different angles) US soldier leads choir in singing hymns. Minister delivers sermon from pulpit. The pastor decides to devote his sermon on the Negro and the war. He begins with a historical introduction, talking about African-American contributions to American military endeavors. MS military service flag. American boxer Joe Louis knocks down German boxer Max Schmeling during fight. Parishioners in pews. Paratrooper Schmeling jumps during military training. Louis climbs fence & monkey bars during field exercises. Preacher discusses how stakes in war are even more important. American flag superimposed over American Constitution. Nazi flag superimposed over Hitler's book Mein Kampf. Minister reads racist passage from Mein Kampf (Blacks described as half ape). MS congregation. Historical reenactments, paintings & engravings show timeline of Black heroes who fought in major US battles & contributed to building US Plaque at Granary Burial Ground. Engraving of Crispus Attucks at Boston Massacre (1770). Monument for Attucks & Samuel Maverick at Concorde Bridge. Peter Sale's gun & painting of Sale in battle. Prince Whipple in Emmanuel Leutze's Washington Crossing the Delaware 1776 painting. Reenactment of Washington's troops crossing Valley Forge 1778. Liberty Bell ringing superimposed over American flag. Men c hopping trees in forest. CUs faces & hands of Blacks & Caucasians laying bricks for building. Farmer's field. Ship firing cannon. Tyler Thompson at Lake Erie. Reenactment of Thomas Wilson at Battle of New Orleans. Shipbuilding. VS Abraham Lincoln Memorial (Washington, DC). Black homesteader couple driving covered wagon. Workers building railway track. LA train. Reenactment 9th & 10th, 24th & 25th Infantry Cavalry at Santiago, Cuba for Spanish-American War. Blue collar railroad worker black men, one saying goodbye to friends, telling them he's going to be a soldier in the Spanish-American War.

Dr. Martin Luther King 1:06:02 Well, I don't think either political party can boast of clean hands in the area of civil rights. I think both parties have betrayed the cause of justice. The Democratic Party has betrayed the cause of justice by capitulating to the undemocratic practices of the Southern Dixiecrats. And I think the Republican Party has betrayed the cause by capitulating to the blatant hypocrisy of many right wing northern Republicans. And it has been this coalition of right wing northern Republicans and southern Dixiecrats that has stood in the way of every progressive step in civil rights legislation, so neither party can boast of clean hands, and in this area, now, I think, more and more, the Negro will vote for that candidate, and that party, which will take a definite stand on the basic issues of human rights and all the the issues that go along with it. And that will do something about it, not just verbal affirmation, but in terms of concrete action. And I don't think any political party will be able to boast that it has a Negro and its best pocket. And I think this is good. David Susskind 1:07:31 But it has the Democratic Party has, in fact, had and continues to have the Negro vote. And it's 70 80% of the Negro community in the big cities, Detroit, Chicago, New York, vote straight down the democratic line. Yeah. Isn't the Negro in voting that way doing himself a disservice? Dr. Martin Luther King 1:07:48 Well, I think the the Negro is caught in a very difficult position here. On the one hand, the Democratic Party has been a little closer to the masses of people on breading, but bread and butter issues. And outside of the South, negros have been able to see a degree of progressive liberalism within the Democratic Party. And here is a dilemma that you have this schizophrenic personality at the center of a party, wherein on the one hand, you see a progressive liberal thrust. And on the other hand, you see this backward reactionary thrust on the part of the Southern Dixiecrats and it presents a dilemma. The Negro choosing between the issue of civil rights and social welfare issues David Susskind 1:08:47 Medicare and education bill. But I wonder, for example, whether the republican party wins any votes for the effort, for example, in the House of Representatives recently of John Lindsay, and other congressmen to initiate on their own resources, effective civil rights legislation, not waiting on a presidential message. Do they earn Negro accolade? Dr. Martin Luther King 1:09:09 Well, I think this could become increasingly true of the Republican Party would somehow throw the yoke of division from its own shoulders. Now there again, the Negro face dilemma because just as you have an Eastland and the Democratic Party, you have a Goldwater and the Republican Party, who will come down south and make a speech and say that the Supreme Court's decision in the law of the land, and who just yesterday made it clear that he's not sure whether he will support civil rights legislation. So it is a dilemma for the Negro he doesn't when he looks to the Republican Party, he sees the same schizophrenia. He sees the same division between the progressive Javits and the cases and and the In the middle Dershkins and the reactionary Goldwater so that you, you do run into a real and David Susskind 1:10:08 The negro should begin to vote for the man and not the party would not be the more effective way Dr. Martin Luther King 1:10:12 Well, I think this will happen more and more. And this has been true that, in many communities, negros and unknown have voted for liberal Republicans over against what they considered a Democrat who didn't quite come up to this person. David Susskind 1:10:33 Does your being a minister, give you the ultimate conviction that your mission of equality of opportunity, equality of education, so forth, is going to be accomplished peacefully where the facts of history are, that human rights are almost always one in violence and bloodshed, and manifested in patients by taking up arms do you grow a little bit pessimistic about the philosophy of nonviolent resistance, however, militant that violence is?

Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper is in Africa railing against the Kyoto Accord.

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BLACK MINISTER LOUIS SHABAZZ (LOUIS X), OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, WAS THE MAIN SPEAKER AT A BLACK MUSLIM MEETING HELD AT THE ST. PAUL AUDITORIUM.

Georgetown, British Guiana. <br/> <br/>Old records read as follows (check against film - shots may be in different sequence to description): <br/> <br/>Four men of Royal Welsh Fusiliers watching cricket. MS. Two Bandsmen of Royal Welsh Fusiliers watching the cricket. LS. Band of Royal Welsh Fusiliers playing during tea interval CU. Coloured boy listening to band also coloured Police MS. and CU. the Governor taking his tea during tea break. The Carib Club on the shore of the Demarra River (which has been taken over to house troop) Various soldiers in Sergeants Mess relaxing, drinking beer and smoking. MS. Four drummers cleaning drums.CU. Soldier and his drum. CU. Soldier. GV. Servicing requistioned transport. MS. Two soldiers. & CU. MS. Soldier shows another how to cut heavy gauge wire. CU. Chisel and hammer etc., Drum Major Knocks a hockey ball to Band Master. GV. Battalion H.Q. MCU. Soldier with Battalion flag. Soldier and two local boys with monkey.In the Minister's Club (also taken over) Brig. Jackson talks to his staff. GV. and CU. Brigadier Jackson. <br/> <br/>MS. Four drummers cleaning drums. CU. Soldier and his drum. CU. Soldier. GV. Servicing requisitioned transport. MS. Two soldiers. & CU. MS. Soldier shows another how to cut heavy guage wire. CU. Chisel and hammer etc., Drum Major knocks a hockey ball to Band Master. GV. Battalion H.Q. MCU. Soldier with Battalion flag. Soldier and two local boys with monkey. In the Mariner's Club (also taken over) Brig. Jackson talks to his staff. GV. and CU. Brigadier Jackson. LS. Two local boys fishing in the background is Frigate "Burghead Bay" Further shot of Burghead Bay" GV. Law Courts in Georgetown MS. Queen Victoria's Statue in forecourt of Law Court. GV.The House of Parliament, Georgetown. Various shots. Governor and Lady Savage. CU's of Governor and Lady Savage. CU's of Governor and Lady Savage. The Cathedral of Georgetown.Modern store. LS. GV. High Street (2 shots) Various shots GV's of Georgetown. <br/> <br/>Four men of Royal Welsh Fusiliers watching cricket. GV. Coloured spectators watching cricket. MS. The four Fusiliers from the front. MS. Group of coloured people watching the game. CU. Pan two coloured people. MS. Two bandsmen of Royal Welsh Fusiliers watching the cricket. CU. One of them sucking a piece of ice to keep cool. End of Trinidad's first innings last pair coming off field, Wilfred Ferguson and J. Taylor. LS. British Guiana team walkingnoff and into pavillion. <br/> <br/>The Carib Club on the shore of the Demarara River (which has been taken over to house troops). Various soldiers in Sergeants mess relaxing, drinking beer and smoking. GV. <br/>(Orig. Neg.) <br/> <br/>BRITISH GUIANA CRISIS. (Georgetown.) LS. Band of Royal Welsh fusiliers playing during tea interval. CU's Coloured boy listening to band, also coloured police MS. and CU. The Governor taking his tea during tea break. Glendon Gibbs one of British Guiana's opening pair, batting (2 shots),George Camacho batting (2 shots) Shot from behind, Radio Demarara commentators. MS. Negroes and Indians in trees, watching the game. CU. Notice - "Rain No. Money Refunded" CU. As girl walks past with sunshades. (Orig. Neg.) <br/> <br/>POLITICAL - FOREIGN GOVERNMENTS - BRITISH GUIANA BRITISH GUIANA CRISIS. (Georgetown.) Four men of Royal Welsh Fusiliers watching cricket. GV. Coloured spectators watching cricket. MS. The four fusiliers from the front. MS. Group of coloured people watching the game. CU. Pan, two coloured people. MS. Two bandsmen of Royal Welsh Fusiliers, watching the cricket. CU. One of them sucking a piece of ice to keep cool. End of Trinidad's first innings, last pair coming off field Wilfred Ferguson and J. Taylor. LS. British Guiana team walking off and into pavillion. LS. Band of Royal Welsh Fusiliers playing during tea interval. CU's Coloured boy listening to band, also coloured police. MS. CU. The Governor taking his tea during tea break. Glendon Gibbs, one of British Guiana's opening pair batting (2 shots) George Camacho batting (2 shots) Shot from behind, Radio Demarara commentators. MS. Negros and Indians in trees, watching the game. CU. Notice "Rain No. Money Refunded" CU. As girls walk past with sunshades. Press representatives interviewing Dr. and Mrs. Jagan on the steps of their home. Various shots of them both - son Joe runs up the steps to mother Mrs. Jagan. The Carib Club on the shore of the Demarara River (which has been taken over to house troops) Various soldiers in Sergeants Mess relaxing, drinking beer and smoking. <br/> <br/>TYPES. BRITISH GUIANA. BRITISH GUIANA CRISIS. (Georgetown.) GV Coloured spectators watching cricket. MS Group of coloured people watching the game. Pan two coloured people. CU's Coloured boy listening to band, also coloured police. MS Negroes and Indians in trees, wathcing, the games. (Orig.Neg.)

LS EXTERIOR CHURCH, SMALL ENTRANCE. GROUP AT ENTRANCE POSE, BUSS PASSES IN F/G. MS BULLETIN BOARD, "PROGRESSIVE BAPTIST CHURCH" TELLS TIMES FOR PRAYER MEETINGS, SUNDAY SCHOOL AND OTHER EVENTS. LARGE LEON SIGN ABOVE ENTRANCE "PROGRESSIVE BAPTIST CHURCH" "REV. O. C. COLLINS, MINISTER ....". ELDERS LEAD CONGREGATION OUT CHURCH TOWARDS CAMERA , PASSING MAN, WOMAN LEANING OUT STREET LEVEL WINDOW OF CHURCH, WATCHING THEM. LARGE GROUP WELL- DRESSED WOMEN WEARING CORSAGES, FOLLOWED BY MEN GROUP. MIXED GROUPS. WOMEN PAPER HATS, ALIKE DRESSES.(USHERS ?)., NURSES, 00 40 12 TAL BLACK MAN SHAKES HANDS NON STOP WITH WOMAN, GROUP WOMAN DOING SAME, MAN RUNS INTO PICTURE SHAKES HANDS WITH WOMEN. ALL GROUP PLAYFULLY SHAKING HANDS. HAND DRAWN TITLE: "THE NEGRO IN CHURCH LIFE" - "SCENES FROM TRIP TO THE NATIONAL BAPTIST CONVENTION, PHILADELPHIA, PA., SEPTEMBER, 1939".

The War Department Presents ""The Nego Soldier"" Part 2 VS ships traveling through Panama canal. Crew waving from battleship. France, WWI: Black band & soldiers march. VS Antiaircraft guns firing. VS Black soldiers running on battlefields. France: 369th Infantry Regiment first American troops to receive French war medal Croix de Guerre. VS Black crowds cheer Black troops at Victory parade in US Sergeant Henry Johnson in uniform. Inset photograph Needham Roberts. (killed 4 captured 28 Germans). CU WWI Croix de Guerre. VS Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia, w crosses & statues. Tombstone montage. VS commemorative statues. Memorial to 371st Infantry from city of Meuse-Argonne, France. Montage CU boots of WWII Nazi German soldiers marching reenactment monument exploding. inister speaks. Statue & inscription for Booker T. Washington at Tuskegee Institute, Alabama. George Washington Carver & Black assistant conduct research in laboratory w beakers & test tubes. Black judge in judicial robes in New York City court w Caucasian clerks. Black explorer Matthew Henson points to North Pole on globe. CU Black & Caucasian students w guns at US Military Academy. Black symphony conductor conducts Beethoven's Symphony IX on stage with Black musician playing trombone in orchestra. Black college campuses, WS VS, on-screen titles identify each school: Howard University Hampton Institute Tuskegee Institute Prairie View A&M University Fisk University. 1936 Newspaper headline (The News: The Paper for the New Negro): Negro Athletes Star at Berlin Olympics. Berlin: Olympic Stadium w crowds & Olympic rings symbol. Runners take their marks for 100m dash race. CU Jesse Owens (US), Erich Borchmeyer (Germany), Ralph Metcalfe (US). CU official fires starting gun. Competitors run on track. Owens crosses finish line first, Metcalfe finishes second. Crowds cheer & wave flags. Scoreboard in German w names & race times for gold, silver & bronze winners. Men's high jump event: Gustav Weinkotz (German) & Hiroshi Tanaka (Japanese) knock down bar (SLOW MO) CU height change board Cornelius Johnson (US) clears bar Crowds cheer Johnson puts on track pants & shakes hands w man 3 American flags fly for 3 US medal winners. Minister speaks from pulpit in church. CUs Great shots Black parishioners dressed in Sunday best. Statue: Nazi eagle perched on swastika. Adolf Hitler & other Nazis look at map. Japanese flag flying. Lieutenant General Masaharu Homma & Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto look at map w other Japanese officials. Hitler & other Nazis laugh & look at map. Buildings collapse from explosives. AV POV bombs falling on city w titles. Great horrific shots of war atrocities. Blitzkrieg. Pearl Harbor: bomb explodes on ship airplanes fly in formation. Douglas SDBs (special dive bombers) release bombs ship with fire & black smoke burning marines run on deck sailor fires antiaircraft gun. Airplane flies over ship deck Black sailor fires machine gun then Caucasian sailor reloads chamber. Airport control station w airplanes near water. Burned hangar frame w wreckage of airplanes. Ship leaning to one side. Minister speaks from pulpit. After he finished this discussion he is ""interrupted"" by a woman in the audience who reads the congregation a letter from her son in the infantry. Her narrative is accompanied by footage of African-American servicemen in orientation and training camps: Black men and white men arrive by train at boot camp; they file into barracks building where they're lectured by military officer.

00/00/00 A0015232 MISSISSIPPI: UNIDENTIFIED MISSISSIPPI MINISTER TALKING ON VOTING REGULATIONS FOR NEGROES: UNCUT "VOTING - NEGROES" SHOWS: AS ABOVE: (SHOT XX 100FT) MISSISSIPPI CIVIL RIGHTS - MISSISSIPPI XX / 100 FT / 16 B & W /

06/07/66 A0031723 NEW YORK, NEW YORK : NEGROE MINISTER IN BROOKLYN ON HOUSING: UNCUT "MINISTER" SHOWS: MINISTER SOF: (SHOT XX - 400FT) HOUSING - NEW YORK, NEW YORK WOR / 400 FT/ 16 - NEG / D12146

BLACK MINISTER LOUIS SHABAZZ (LOUIS X), OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, WAS THE MAIN SPEAKER AT A BLACK MUSLIM MEETING HELD AT THE ST. PAUL AUDITORIUM.

Negro Soldier, The (Why We Fight series)

David Susskind 21:48 Why has he hedged today? Political consideration. Southern votes Dr. Martin Luther King 21:53 I think it boils down to a fear of arousing eye of the southern congressman, many of whom hold the leadership and basic and important committees in Congress. And it may be that the President feels that his other legislative program can get through if he makes these senators and congressmen too angry on the civil rights issue. My position has been that this issue is a basic moral issue. I mean, the civil rights issue, and that many of the Southerners are going to take a stand against the President's legislative program. And we know the phase of his legislative program anyway. And it is better to go down taking a strong moral position than to lose out when you have heads down on a basic moral principle. And I think this is a choice before the President, he must start now making moral decisions, rather than purely political decisions. And I think in the final analysis, he will be supported in the country. It's very seldom that an individual in the political world has an opportunity to do that which is morally right and politically expedient, simultaneously. But I think this is one issue. That is morally right on the one hand and politically expedient on the other. I think the President will discover that if he took a forthright, courageous stand on this issue, he would get great support from from people all over the country, particularly in the big industrial, urban areas of the north and the west that in the final analysis, will elect the president. David Susskind 23:55 Dr. King, will the coming showdown between Governor Wallace and the federal government on the admission of the two Nigro students to the University of Alabama, in your view, will that lead to new violence in Alabama? There are 1000 troops stationed there, the Negro community probably awaits the event. If Governor Wallace were to do a governor Barnett act and attempt to prevent the entry himself physically with his troops, would that lead to an outbreak of new violence? Dr. Martin Luther King 24:28 Well, I think there is danger. There's a real possibility. Now in recent days, Governor Wallace has backed up a bit and he has gone on television calling for non violence and calling for peace and all that orderliness and how much influences will have I don't know. I feel now the governer Wallave has been under so much pressure from the public Political power structure of the state the economic power structure, the business leaders and the ecclesiastical power structure. The ministers from all over have said to government Wallace, this is the wrong course of action, the Attorney General of the State, the lieutenant governor. And I think he's been under so much pressure that he may change his course of action, and try to follow through on some token political promise that he made, yet at the same time trying to keep violence from erupting. If this happens, it may, it may be possible to prevent violence. On the other hand, if the governor over the next few days persists in his determination to stand in the door and place, the troops of state troopers of Alabama over against the trying to block the entrance of the Negro students. And then the showdown comes between the state and the federal government, there is a danger that the violent forces of the state will become so aroused that they will resort to violence and will unconsciously unconsciously feel that they are aided and abetted by Governor Wallace and and all that they're doing. So it's difficult to say, I think we must realize that it's a dangerous situation. And Governor Wallace has done a grave injustice not only to Alabama, but to the whole nation. By embarking on such an irresponsible course of action. David Susskind 26:36 Dr. King has the pressure of events, and the frustration of the Negro, in seeking his rights. Made your philosophy your doctrine of non violence more difficult to preach effectively within your own people. Is there now a militancy that is damaging your, your theology of nonviolent? Dr. Martin Luther King 27:05 Well, at this point? I don't think so. I must make it clear that I don't advocate a weak and sort of complacent, non violence. I advocate a militant non violence, a movement that moves on a resistance movement that does resist, but it does it non violently. Now, I am as impatient as anybody about the slow pace of the desegregation process. And I feel that we've got to move on in a very vigorous, forthright and determined manner. My only insistence is that it would be both impractical, and immoral to try to make violence, our major thrust to try to make violence a method that we will use to get to the goal of integration. And I as I said, I think it's just downright impractical even if one doesn't take the moral questions under consideration. Now, it is true that because of the failure of the forces of goodwill, to rally around the democratic ideal and the whole process of integration, many people in the negro community have become so impatient that they become bitter, and it is more difficult to get over. In a situation like this see the philosophy of non violence it makes the job much more difficult. When we are moving on and people see this creative outlet. It's easier for them to remain true to the non violent creed. But when things are slow, and even those who are leaders in the non violent movement are considered rabble rousers and agitators, then it does make the job much more difficult to get this philosophy over. And I will be the first one to admit that with the with the growth of the movement, and with it rising to such astronomical proportions in terms of numbers, and with all of the communities that are now rising up, it means that we are going to have to spend more times time and get more hands to help us work in these communities so that we will be sure that at least we've tried to get over the meaning of the whole philosophy of non violence.

Portuguese Foreign Minister Mario Soares meets with Samora Machel, black nationalist and leader of the Front for the Liberation of Mozambique circa 1974.