- Collection:
- WSB-TV Newsfilm Collection
- Title:
- WSB-TV newsfilm clip of Georgia House of Representatives members Byrom Mashburn Fitzgerald and Edgar Blalock addressing a committee about the court-ordered integration of the University of Georgia in Atlanta, Georgia, 1961 January
- Creator:
- WSB-TV (Television station : Atlanta, Ga.)
- Contributor to Resource:
- Fitzgerald, Byrom Mashburn, 1913-1969
Blalock, Edgar, 1901-1999 - Date of Original:
- 1961-01-00
- Subject:
- College students--Georgia--Athens
African American college students--Georgia--Athens
College integration--Georgia--Athens
Segregation in education--Georgia--Athens
Legislators--Georgia--Attitudes
School integration--Massive resistance movement--Georgia
Government, Resistance to--Georgia
College integration--Georgia--Athens--Public opinion
Public opinion--Georgia--Athens - People:
- Fitzgerald, Byrom Mashburn, 1913-1969
Blalock, Edgar, 1901-1999 - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Clarke County, Athens, 33.96095, -83.37794
United States, Georgia, Fulton County, 33.79025, -84.46702
United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798 - Medium:
- moving images
news
unedited footage - Type:
- MovingImage
- Format:
- video/mp4
- Description:
- In this WSB newsfilm clip from the Georgia State Capitol in Atlanta, Georgia in January 1961, House of Representatives members Byrom Mashburn Fitzgerald of Ludowici, Long County and Edgar Blalock of Jonesboro, Clayton County address a committee about the court-ordered integration of the University of Georgia. The clip begins with a portion of a statement by representative Fitzgerald who is speaking with his back to the camera. Next, representative Blalock reports that he had advised students at the university, but he is unsure of the impact of his counsel. He emphasizes that the federal courts have taken the matter of integration out of the hands of the Georgia legislature. African American students Charlayne Hunter and Hamilton Holmes first applied to the University of Georgia in the summer of 1959 but were denied, according to the university, based on lack of space. After several other unsuccessful applications, lawyers Donald Hollowell, Horace T. Ward, and Constance B. Motley filed a federal lawsuit against the university on behalf of the students. On January 6, 1961 federal judge William A. Bootle ordered the university to admit the students and to stop rejecting applicants solely based on race. State officials debated closing the university rather than integrating, but in the end choose to allow the university to integrate.
Title supplied by cataloger. - Local Identifier:
- Clip number: wsbn43212
- Metadata URL:
- https://crdl.usg.edu/id:ugabma_wsbn_wsbn43212
- Digital Object URL:
- https://crdl.usg.edu/do:ugabma_wsbn_wsbn43212
- IIIF manifest:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/ugabma_wsbn_wsbn43212/presentation/manifest.json
- Language:
- eng
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: wsbn43212, WSB-TV newsfilm clip of Georgia House of Representatives members Byrom Mashburn Fitzgerald and Edgar Blalock addressing a committee about the court-ordered integration of the University of Georgia in Atlanta, Georgia, 1961 January, WSB-TV newsfilm collection, reel 0970, 7:05/07:41, Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection, The University of Georgia Libraries, Athens, Georgia
- Extent:
- 1 clip (about 36 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:
-
