- Collection:
- WSB-TV Newsfilm Collection
- Title:
- WSB-TV newsfilm clip of civil rights workers holding a sit-in and picketing in downtown Atlanta, Georgia, 1960 November 25
- Creator:
- WSB-TV (Television station : Atlanta, Ga.)
- Date of Original:
- 1960-11-25
- Subject:
- Sit-ins--Georgia--Atlanta
African American civil rights workers--Georgia--Atlanta
African American college students--Georgia--Atlanta
African Americans--Civil rights--Georgia--Atlanta
African Americans--Politics and government
Civil rights demonstrations--Georgia--Atlanta
Civil rights movements--Georgia--Atlanta
Civil rights workers--Georgia--Atlanta
College students--Georgia--Atlanta
Discrimination in restaurants--Georgia--Atlanta
Direct action--Georgia--Atlanta
Central business districts--Georgia--Atlanta
Passive resistance--Georgia--Atlanta
Picketing--Georgia--Atlanta
Race discrimination--Georgia--Atlanta
Segregation--Georgia--Atlanta
Signs and signboards--Georgia--Atlanta
Stores, Retail--Georgia--Atlanta
Restaurants--Georgia--Atlanta - Location:
- 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 silent WSB newsfilm clip possibly from November 25, 1960, African Americans hold a sit-in at a lunch counter and picket the McCrory's and F.W. Woolworth stores in downtown Atlanta, Georgia. The clip begins with a group of two African American men and two African American women standing together on the sidewalk next to a building. Under a store's awning, other African Americans walk past the store or into the building. A small number of African Americans with picket signs walk back and forth in front of McCrory's store. In an unidentified store, African American students wait for service at a lunch counter sit-in. Outside, other protesters carry signs with the slogans, "Jim Crow must go" and "Don't pay to be segregated." The camera pans past the F.W. Woolworth store and a next-door parking lot. Although a variety of civil rights organizations worked to better the situation of African Americans in Atlanta throughout the twentieth century, African American students from the Atlanta University center became heavily involved in leading protests following the nationally publicized February 1960 student-led sit-ins in Greensville, North Carolina. Atlanta University Center students involved with the Committee on Appeal for Human Rights (COAHR) worked with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee to organize segregation protests in Atlanta. The two groups organized a "Fall Campaign" beginning on October 19, 1960; on October 22 African American leaders agreed to a month-long truce in which city officials, business owners, and African Americans worked toward a compromise. When no agreement was reached by November 25, African American students joined by white students from Emory University and Agnes Scott College resumed protests and flooded downtown stores including Rich's, Woolworth's, and McCrory's.
Title supplied by cataloger. - Local Identifier:
- Clip number: wsbn43721
- Metadata URL:
- https://crdl.usg.edu/id:ugabma_wsbn_wsbn43721
- Digital Object URL:
- https://crdl.usg.edu/do:ugabma_wsbn_wsbn43721
- IIIF manifest:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/ugabma_wsbn_wsbn43721/presentation/manifest.json
- Language:
- eng
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: wsbn43721, WSB-TV newsfilm clip of civil rights workers holding a sit-in and picketing in downtown Atlanta, Georgia, 1960 November 25, WSB-TV newsfilm collection, reel 0988, 2:53/03:55, Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection, The University of Georgia Libraries, Athens, Georgia
- Extent:
- 1 clip (about 1 mins., 2 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:
-
