- Collection:
- WSB-TV Newsfilm Collection
- Title:
- WSB-TV newsfilm clip of Georgia governor Marvin Griffin pledging to maintain segregated schools in Georgia and condemning the presence of federal troops enforcing integration by the "Little Rock Nine" at Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas from a conference held in Sea Island, Georgia, 1957 September 23
- Creator:
- WSB-TV (Television station : Atlanta, Ga.)
- Contributor to Resource:
- Griffin, Marvin, 1907-1982
- Date of Original:
- 1957-09-23
- Subject:
- Governors--Georgia
African American students--Arkansas--Little Rock
Segregation in education--Arkansas--Little Rock
Segregation in education--Georgia
Reporters and reporting--Georgia--Sea Island
School integration--Arkansas--Little Rock
Intervention (Federal government)--Arkansas--Little Rock
School integration--Massive resistance movement--Georgia
Federal-state controversies--Arkansas--Little Rock
Government, Resistance to--Southern States - People:
- Griffin, Marvin, 1907-1982
- Location:
- United States, Arkansas, Pulaski County, Little Rock, 34.74648, -92.28959
United States, Georgia, Glynn County, Sea Island, 31.18356, -81.34982 - Medium:
- moving images
news
unedited footage - Type:
- MovingImage
- Format:
- video/mp4
- Description:
- In this WSB newsfilm clip from September 23, 1957, Georgia governor Marvin Griffin condemns the presence of federal troops enforcing the integration of Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas and pledges to maintain segregated schools in Georgia. Dressed in a dinner jacket, Governor Griffin stands at a podium with two men who appear to be taking notes, standing on either side of him. He declares that the use of federal troops "to police a state" violates states' rights and the Second Amendment to the constitution. Asserting that "the second reconstruction of the south is now underway," Griffin reaffirms his pledge to maintain segregated public school systems in Georgia, proclaiming that only federal courts will ever cause the system to be changed. Griffin, Georgia governor from 1955 to 1959, is speaking here from a conference with other Southern governors at Sea Island, Georgia; news of the federal intervention in Little Rock had reached the meeting earlier in the day. Griffin was a staunch segregationist who publicly announced his intentions to disband the public school system if pressured to integrate.
Title supplied by cataloger. - Local Identifier:
- Clip number: wsbn33584
- Metadata URL:
- https://crdl.usg.edu/id:ugabma_wsbn_wsbn33584
- Digital Object URL:
- https://crdl.usg.edu/do:ugabma_wsbn_wsbn33584
- IIIF manifest:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/ugabma_wsbn_wsbn33584/presentation/manifest.json
- Language:
- eng
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: wsbn33584, WSB-TV newsfilm clip of Georgia governor Marvin Griffin pledging to maintain segregated schools in Georgia and condemning the presence of federal troops enforcing integration by the "Little Rock Nine" at Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas from a conference held in Sea Island, Georgia, 1957 September 23, WSB-TV newsfilm collection, reel 0748, 13:11/13:57, Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection, The University of Georgia Libraries, Athens, Georgia
- Extent:
- 1 clip (about 46 secs.): black-and-white, sound ; 16 mm.
- Original Collection:
- Original found in the WSB-TV newsfilm collection.
- Contributing Institution:
- Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection
- Rights:
-
