- Collection:
- WSB-TV Newsfilm Collection
- Title:
- WSB-TV newsfilm clip of Emmelyn Parrish, city voting registrar, assisting two African Americans as they register to vote in Albany, Georgia, 1962
- Creator:
- WSB-TV (Television station : Atlanta, Ga.)
- Contributor to Resource:
- Valeriani, Richard
Parrish, Emmelyn L., 1911-1996 - Date of Original:
- 1962-00-00
- Subject:
- Voter registration--Georgia--Albany
African Americans--Georgia--Albany
Elections--Georgia--Albany
Literacy tests (Election law)--Georgia--Albany
Segregation--Georgia--Albany
Voting registrars--Georgia--Albany
Local elections--Georgia--Albany - People:
- Parrish, Emmelyn L., 1911-1996
Valeriani, Richard - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Dougherty County, Albany, 31.57851, -84.15574
- Medium:
- moving images
news
unedited footage - Type:
- MovingImage
- Format:
- video/mp4
- Description:
- In this WSB newsfilm clip, Emmelyn Parrish, Albany city voting registrar, assists two unidentified African Americans as they register to vote during the summer of 1962. The first candidate, a twenty-six year-old woman, answers questions regarding her age and length of residency in Dougherty County and the city of Albany, and performs a literacy test. She reads an oath testifying to her qualifications to vote, and transcribes a sentence from the Georgia state constitution read to her by Parrish. After passing the test, she signs her name in the voter registration book. The second candidate, a forty-six year-old African American man called "John" by Mrs. Parrish, is given the same series of tasks and also passes. Mrs. Parrish says she has seen an increase in African American voter registration with as many as twenty applicants qualifying in the last three days; she also notes there have been others who tried to register that were not qualified to register for city voting because they lived outside the city limits. She has also seen an increase in white applicants; about twenty have registered in the same time period. The clip ends with a voice from an unseen man describing the coverage as slanted. While the Albany Movement did not immediately defeat segregation in Albany, the voter registration effort was so successful that African American businessman Thomas Chatmon received enough votes in the October election to force a run-off. The following spring, the Albany City Commission removed all local segregation laws.
Reporter: Valeriani, Richard
Title supplied by cataloger.
IMLS Grant, 2008.
Digibeta Center Cut (4 x 3) downconvert from HDD5 1080/23.98PsF film transfer. - Local Identifier:
- Clip number: wsbn41648
- Metadata URL:
- https://crdl.usg.edu/id:ugabma_wsbn_wsbn41648
- Digital Object URL:
- https://crdl.usg.edu/do:ugabma_wsbn_wsbn41648
- IIIF manifest:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/ugabma_wsbn_wsbn41648/presentation/manifest.json
- Language:
- eng
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: wsbn41648, WSB-TV newsfilm clip of Emmelyn Parrish, city voting registrar, assisting two African Americans as they register to vote in Albany, Georgia, 1962, WSB-TV newsfilm collection, reel 0900, 16:09/25:57, Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection, The University of Georgia Libraries, Athens, Georgia
- Extent:
- 1 clip (about 9 mins., 48 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:
-
