- Collection:
- WSFA Collection
- Title:
- WSFA audiovisual item D125.0007
- Publisher:
- Montgomery, Ala. : Alabama Department of Archives and History
- Date of Original:
- 1969-01/1969-10
- Subject:
- Alabama State Teachers Association
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
African Americans--Civil rights
African Americans--Employment
African Americans--Political activity
Civil rights demonstrations
Civil rights workers
Clergy
Demonstrations
Education
Governors--Alabama
Legislators--United States
Political science
Prayer
Race relations--Alabama
Race relations--United States
Railroad stations
Railroads
Roads
Singing
Students
Teachers
Transportation
Universities and colleges
Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Protest movements
Voter registration
Voting
Auburn (Ala.)
Lee County (Ala.)
Montgomery (Ala.)
Montgomery County (Ala.)
Tuscaloosa (Ala.)
Tuscaloosa County (Ala.)
Tuskegee (Ala.)
Macon County (Ala.) - People:
- Barnett, Roosevelt
Bond, Julian, 1940-2015
Boone, Richard
Coffin, William Sloane, Jr., 1924-2006
Martin, James Douglas, 1918-2017
Muskie, Edmund S., 1914-1996
Powell, Adam Clayton, Jr., 1908-1972
Reed, Joe L.
Wallace, George C. (George Corley), 1919-1998 - Location:
- United States, Alabama, Macon County, Tuskegee, 32.42415, -85.69096
- Medium:
- videotapes
- Type:
- MovingImage
- Format:
- video/mp4
- Description:
- The following segments are included: 0:00:17: Adam Clayton Powell of New York speaking at Tuskegee Institute on January 27, 1969. During the speech, Powell discusses "black power" and stresses that "We demand full equality now." 0:02:49: Students participating in a Black Power demonstration in downtown Tuskegee, Alabama. The participants marched from the campus of Tuskegee Institute to West Southside Street. (The Tuskegee Shoe Store, 101 West Southside, is visible in the last few seconds of the clip.) The footage is silent. 0:03:40: Boone discussing problems within the SCLC, as well as his belief that civil rights activists should change their tactics, focusing on political education and voter registration rather than large public demonstrations (". . . the use of the big march, I think, at this point has about played out"). Boone had been working as an SCLC coordinator to organize the Poor People's Campaign. Roosevelt Barnett is seated behind him. 0:06:47: Joe L. Reed, executive secretary of the Alabama State Teachers Association addressing an ASTA delegate assembly at Alabama State College in Montgomery on February 21, 1969. Reed discusses the effects of desegregation on Black educational professionals' positions and pay, and he mentions that he as filed a lawsuit to keep Auburn University of Montgomery. 0:08:35: William Sloane Coffin, chaplain at Yale University, speaking to students at Auburn University about the Vietnam War on Friday, February 7, 1969. 0:12:54: Julian Bond speaking at a mass meeting at Tabernacle Baptist Church in Selma, Alabama, on February 6, 1969. The footage is silent. 0:14:01: Julian Bond being interviewed by a reporter at the airport in Montgomery, Alabama. Bond discusses the lack of inclusive political appointments by the Nixon administration
improvements in the numbers of elected Black officials
and the need for legislation and state investment to solve "human problems" by providing jobs, training, and education. 0:15:41: Ecumenical service at Denny Chimes on the campus of the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa during Vietnam War moratorium activities on October 15, 1969. The footage includes a brief clip of the participants singing "The Times They Are a-Changin'." 0:17:18: Jim Martin speaking to students at Foster Auditorium at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa during a Vietnam War moratorium activities the evening of October 15, 1969. Martin spoke in support of the war. 0:19:13: Union Station and railroad tracks in downtown Montgomery. The footage is silent. 0:19:43: East South Boulevard in Montgomery, Alabama, at the intersection with U.S. Highway 231. Woolco, Hart's Hamburgers, Jack's Hamburgers, and a Shell station are visible. The footage is silent. 0:20:23: Governor George Wallace speaking at a press conference from his desk at the Capitol in Montgomery, Alabama. In his remarks, Wallace says that he no has plans to run for state or national office, but he stresses that he hasn't denied interest in doing so, either. 0:21:35: Senator Edmund Muskie speaking to students at Auburn University's Memorial Coliseum on February 21, 1969. Muskie spoke about race relations and the need to break down barriers between white and Black citizens. - Metadata URL:
- http://digital.archives.alabama.gov/cdm/ref/collection/wsfa/id/0
- Language:
- eng
- Contributing Institution:
- Alabama. Department of Archives and History
- Rights:
-
