- Collection:
- WSB-TV Newsfilm Collection
- Title:
- WSB-TV newsfilm clip of students blocked from integrating Albany Carnegie Library and a park in Albany, Georgia, 1962 August 13
- Creator:
- WSB-TV (Television station : Atlanta, Ga.)
- Date of Original:
- 1962-08-13
- Subject:
- Civil rights movements--Georgia--Albany--History--20th century
Segregation--Georgia--Albany
Civil rights demonstrations--Georgia--Albany
African American students--Georgia--Albany
Police--Georgia--Albany
Direct action--Georgia--Albany
Passive resistance--Georgia--Albany
Discrimination in public accommodations--Georgia--Albany
Mayors--Georgia--Albany
Police chiefs--Georgia--Albany
Albany (Ga.)--Politics and government--History--20th century
Albany (Ga.)--Race relations--History--20th century - People:
- Pritchett, Laurie, 1926-2000
Kelley, Asa D., 1922-1997 - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Dougherty County, Albany, 31.57851, -84.15574
United States, Georgia, Dougherty County, Tift Park Albany, 31.59434, -84.15852 - Medium:
- moving images
news
unedited footage - Type:
- MovingImage
- Format:
- video/mp4
- Description:
- In this WSB newsfilm clip, groups of unidentified Albany police officers led by Albany police chief Laurie Pritchett block access to the park and watch as unidentified African American students try the locked doors of the Albany Carnegie Library on Monday, August 13, 1962. A white student and a black student attempt to play tennis at an Albany park, possibly Tift Park, and are turned away by the police. A group of male and female students try to enter the library but find the doors locked. Another group of young men try two doors they also find locked. After interpreting comments made by Recorders' Court Judge A. N. Durden, Sr. to mean the city would no longer enforce segregation statutes, Charles Jones and members of the Student Nonviolence Coordinating Committee (SNCC) arranged tests of city facilities to see if the city had stopped enforcing segregation. Mayor Asa D. Kelley, Jr. announces that the comments made by Judge Durden did not mean the city was no longer enforcing segregation. In response, the Albany City Commission closes public facilities including the library and parks.
Title supplied by cataloger.
IMLS Grant, 2008.
Digibeta Center Cut (4 x 3) downconvert from HDD5 1080/23.98PsF film transfer. WSB comp reel 1. - Local Identifier:
- Clip number: wsbn35452
- Metadata URL:
- https://crdl.usg.edu/id:ugabma_wsbn_wsbn35452
- Digital Object URL:
- https://crdl.usg.edu/do:ugabma_wsbn_wsbn35452
- IIIF manifest:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/ugabma_wsbn_wsbn35452/presentation/manifest.json
- Language:
- eng
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: wsbn35452, WSB-TV newsfilm clip of students blocked from integrating Albany Carnegie Library and a park in Albany, Georgia, 1962 August 13, WSB-TV newsfilm collection, reel 0786, 26:47/27:32, Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection, The University of Georgia Libraries, Athens, Georgia
- Extent:
- 1 clip (about 45 secs.): black-and-white, silent ; 16 mm.
- Original Collection:
- Original found in the WSB-TV newsfilm collection.
- Contributing Institution:
- Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection
- Rights:
-
