- Collection:
- WSB-TV Newsfilm Collection
- Title:
- WSB-TV newsfilm clip of a man talking about the low number of African Americans in a retirement community, Atlanta, Georgia, 1968 November 27
- Creator:
- WSB-TV (Television station : Atlanta, Ga.)
- Contributor to Resource:
- Pruitt, John (Television news anchor)
- Date of Original:
- 1968-11-27
- Subject:
- Race relations
Discrimination in employment--Georgia
Discrimination in employment-Georgia--Atlanta
Discrimination in housing
Discrimination in housing--Illinois--Peoria
Retirement--Illinois--Peoria
Older African Americans
Older African Americans--Illinois--Peoria
Older African Americans--Housing
Older African Americans--Housing--Illinois--Peoria
African Americans--Housing
African Americans--Housing--Illinois--Peoria
Older blacks
Older blacks--Illinois--Peoria
Older blacks--Housing
Older blacks--Housing--Illinois--Peoria
Minority older people--United States.
Minority older people--Housing.
Minority older people--Housing--Illinois--Peoria.
Minority older people--Illinois--Peoria.
Minorities--Housing.
Minorities--Housing--Illinois--Peoria.
Civil rights--Georgia--Atlanta
Civil rights--Illinois--Peoria
African Americans--Civil rights
African Americans--Civil rights--Georgia--Atlanta
African Americans--Civil rights--Illinois--Peoria
African Americans--Segregation--Illinois--Peoria
Segregation--Illinois--Peoria
African Americans--Georgia--Social conditions--20th century
African Americans--Illinois--Social conditions--20th century
African Americans--Social conditions--1964-1975
Whites--Georgia--Social conditions--20th century
Whites--Illinois--Social conditions--20th century
Whites--Social conditions--1964-1975
Race discrimination--Illinois--Peoria
Race discrimination--Georgia--Atlanta
Racism--Georgia--Atlanta
Racism--Illinois--Peoria
Prejudices--Georgia--Atlanta
Prejudices--Illinois--Peoria
Supermarkets--Georgia--Atlanta
Supermarkets--Employees--Georgia--Atlanta
Supermarkets--Management
Grocery trade--Georgia--Atlanta
Grocery trade--Employees--Georgia--Atlanta
Grocery trade--Management
Employee selection
Employee selection--Georgia--Atlanta
Employees--Georgia--Atlanta
Older people--Housing
Older people--Housing--Illinois--Peoria
Older people--Care
Older people--Care--Illinois--Peoria
Old age homes
Old age homes--Illinois--Peoria
Congregate housing
Congregate housing--Illinois--Peoria
Congregate housing--Administration
Housing
Housing--Illinois--Peoria
Housing management
Housing management--Illinois--Peoria
Housing policy
Housing policy--Illinois--Peoria
Old age home trustees
Old age home trustees--Illinois--Peoria
Personnel management--Georgia--Atlanta
Corporations--Sociological aspects--Georgia--Atlanta
Reporters and reporting--Georgia--Atlanta
Television journalists--Georgia--Atlanta
African American television journalists--Georgia--Atlanta
Press-Georgia--Atlanta
Cash registers--Georgia--Atlanta
Microphone
Peoria (Ill.)--Race relations
Georgia--Social conditions--20th century
Illinois--Social conditions--20th century
United States--Race relations - People:
- Pruitt, John (Television news anchor)
- Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, 33.79025, -84.46702
United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
United States, Illinois, Peoria County, Peoria, 40.69365, -89.58899 - Medium:
- moving images
news
unedited footage - Type:
- MovingImage
- Format:
- video/mp4
- Description:
- In this WSB newsfilm clip from November 27, 1968, an unidentified spokesperson from Buehler's Super Markets, a grocery store chain with four stores in Atlanta, describes the hiring and management practices of the company to three reporters. The interview is conducted at a cash register inside of a grocery store, presumably Buehler's. The spokesperson reports "out of our seventy-one employees, fifty-three of them are negroes, we have several assistant managers who are negroes, and we are placing one as store manager at 90 Broad Street as of December the first." The clip jumps, truncating a question posed by an African American reporter who asks the Buehler's spokesperson to account for why there are African Americans who "have never been in the retirement home." The spokesperson responds that, based on the information he has received from the trustees who operate the retirement home, "there were very few black people whom ever made application to make this their home." He is cut off in mid-sentence by another jump in the clip. The next section of the clip has no audio track; it shows the Buehler's spokesperson and a reporter filmed from behind, while WSB reporter John Pruitt, listening intently, is filmed from the front.
On November 27, 1968, executives of Buehler's Super Markets dropped a one million dollar lawsuit against the Concerned Clergymen of Atlanta. The lawsuit charged the organization with attempting to extort fifty thousand dollars in donations on an annual basis from the supermarket chain. The suit was brought in response to demonstrations organized by the Concerned Clergymen of Atlanta, who challenged the employment practices, wage scale, and the price and quality of the goods sold at Buehler's. An additional complaint that fueled the demonstrations was that Buehler's also held interests in a retirement home in Peoria, Illinois that was not integrated.
The Concerned Clergymen of Atlanta rejected ever having made such a request to Buehler's management; the group noted that an individual clergyman had suggested that fifty thousand dollars a year be donated to local Atlanta charities, but that the suggestion was not accepted by other members of the organization. Furthermore, a proposal had never been presented to anyone from Buehler's. An agreement was reached between the two parties when Buehler's management pledged to make improvements in their stores and to recommend integration of the retirement home in Illinois.
Reporter: Pruitt, John (Television news anchor)
Title supplied by cataloger. - Local Identifier:
- Clip number: wsbn55124
- Metadata URL:
- https://crdl.usg.edu/id:ugabma_wsbn_wsbn55124
- Digital Object URL:
- https://crdl.usg.edu/do:ugabma_wsbn_wsbn55124
- IIIF manifest:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/ugabma_wsbn_wsbn55124/presentation/manifest.json
- Language:
- eng
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: wsbn55124, WSB-TV newsfilm clip of a man talking about the low number of African Americans in a retirement community, Atlanta, Georgia, 1968 November 27, WSB-TV newsfilm collection, reel 1509, 00:00/01:00, Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection, The University of Georgia Libraries, Athens, Georgia
- Extent:
- 1 clip (about 1 mins.): color, 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:
-
