- Collection:
- WSB-TV Newsfilm Collection
- Title:
- Series of WSB-TV newsfilm clips of African American attorney Donald Hollowell speaking to reporters about the imprisonment of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. from Atlanta, Georgia, 1960 October 27
- Creator:
- WSB-TV (Television station : Atlanta, Ga.)
- Contributor to Resource:
- Hollowell, Donald L., 1917-2004
- Date of Original:
- 1960-10-27
- Subject:
- African American lawyers--Georgia--Atlanta
Arrest--Georgia--Atlanta
Sit-ins--Georgia--Atlanta
African American civil rights workers--Georgia--Atlanta
Civil rights workers--Georgia--Atlanta
Lawyers--Georgia--Atlanta
Habeas corpus--Georgia--Atlanta
Imprisonment--Georgia--Atlanta - People:
- Hollowell, Donald L., 1917-2004
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968--Trials, litigation, etc. - Location:
- United States, Georgia, DeKalb County, 33.77153, -84.22641
United States, Georgia, Fulton County, 33.79025, -84.46702
United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
United States, Georgia, Tattnall County, Reidsville, 32.08686, -82.1179 - Medium:
- moving images
news
unedited footage - Type:
- MovingImage
- Format:
- video/mp4
- Description:
- In this October 27, 1960 series of WSB-TV newsfilm clips from Atlanta, Georgia, African American attorney Donald Hollowell speaks to reporters about the imprisonment of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. after his October 19 sit-in arrest at Rich's Department store in Atlanta and efforts to secure his release.
The clip begins by showing a parking lot; a sign on a back wall indicates there is a shop to the left. Next, attired in a hat and standing outdoors, attorney Hollowell reports that lawyers filed a motion to vacate the imprisonment order against King. He indicates that although he informed DeKalb County officials of his desire to have King at a hearing scheduled for that day, county officials reported that they had already submitted papers to have King moved from the over-crowded county prison to state custody at Georgia State Prison in
Before his lawyers were able to file the writ of habeas corpus objecting to King's imprisonment that they had prepared, King was moved to Reidsville at four o'clock in the morning. On October 19 student-led demonstrations at several lunch counters around Atlanta led to massive arrests. City officials arranged an end to the sit-ins that included a release of prisoners arrested on city property. However, King and others arrested at Rich's Department Store were arrested in DeKalb County and were out of the city's jurisdiction. King had been arrested in DeKalb County in February 1960 for driving without a valid Georgia license and sentenced to four months in jail; the judge suspended King's sentence and placed King on probation. DeKalb County officials asserted that the sit-in arrest violated King's probation and ordered him to serve his sentence. Although the judge at first refused to allow King to be released on bond and had him transferred to Georgia State Prison, pressure from a variety of sources including the campaign of presidential candidate senator John F. Kennedy led the judge to release King into the custody of Hollowell on two thousand dollar bond later in the day on October 27.
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: wsbn43747
- Metadata URL:
- https://crdl.usg.edu/id:ugabma_wsbn_wsbn43747
- Digital Object URL:
- https://crdl.usg.edu/do:ugabma_wsbn_wsbn43747
- IIIF manifest:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/ugabma_wsbn_wsbn43747/presentation/manifest.json
- Language:
- eng
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: wsbn43747, Series of WSB-TV newsfilm clips of African American attorney Donald Hollowell speaking to reporters about the imprisonment of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. from Atlanta, Georgia, 1960 October 27, WSB-TV newsfilm collection, reel 0988, 41:44/43:35, Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection, The University of Georgia Libraries, Athens, Georgia
- Extent:
- 1 clip (about 1 mins., 51 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:
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