- Collection:
- WSFA Collection
- Title:
- WSFA audiovisual item D164.0002
- Publisher:
- Montgomery, Ala. : Alabama Department of Archives and History
- Date of Original:
- 1964
- Subject:
- Alabama (Battleship : BB-60)
African Americans--Civil rights
African Americans--Segregation
Attorneys general--Alabama
Business
Education
Government officials--Alabama
Governors--Alabama
Journalists
Legislators--Alabama
Motion picture cameras
Organization
Political campaigns
Political science
Race relations--Alabama
School integration
Urban renewal
Voting
Warships
Mobile Bay (Ala.)
Mobile (Ala.)
Mobile County (Ala.)
Montgomery (Ala.)
Montgomery County (Ala.) - People:
- Allen, James B. (James Browning), 1912-1978
Amos, Mabel, 1900-1999
Flowers, Richmond, 1918-2007
Gallion, McDonald, 1913-2007
Ingram, Bob
Mathews, Charles Pete, 1917-
Mizell, Frank J.
Smith, Elizabeth Hobbie Wright, 1924-2012
Wallace, George C. (George Corley), 1919-1998 - Location:
- United States, Alabama, 32.75041, -86.75026
- Medium:
- color films (visual works)
- Type:
- MovingImage
- Format:
- video/mp4
- Description:
- The following segments are included: 0:00:01: Attorney General Richmond Flowers discussing the work of his office ("1963 has been an extremely turbulent year"), including staffing, reports, and workload. In particular, he mentions dealing with "federal encroachment," though he acknowledges some conflict with the governor in his approach to such matters: "I deeply regret the impression that has been gained that there are differences in these issues between my office and the office of the governor. This is not so. We seek the same end. We seek the same results. Mine, however, is a legal battle within our courts. Let me assure you that Alabama is present and accounted for in our legal battle to maintain a southern way of life, and let me further assure you that although we will be tried this coming year, we will not be found wanting." 0:02:42: Governor George Wallace announcing the "Stand up for Alabama slate" of "free and unpledged" electors during a press conference on February 27, 1964. The following men would be on the ballot during the upcoming Democratic primary in May: Lieutenant Governor Jim Allen; MacDonald Gallion of Montgomery, former attorney general; Representative Albert Brewer of Decatur, speaker of the House; Senator Pete Mathews of Ashland; Frank Mizell of Montgomery; Edmund Blair of Pell City; Senator Albert Evans of Butler; I. J. Scott of Opelika; Representative Hugh Locke of Birmingham; and Jack Giles of Huntsville. (Only Allen, Gallion, Mathews, and Mizell were present at the press conference.) 0:04:05: George Wallace discussing a resolution passed during a special session of the Alabama Legislature on September 21, 1964, which called for amending the Tenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution in order to ensure state control of public school systems. (For the text of the resolution, see https://archive.org/details/alabama-acts-1964/page/n369.) 0:05:28: George Wallace discussing an upcoming trip to Wisconsin in February 1964, where he will both speak against the pending Civil Rights Bill of 1964 and promote his candidacy in the upcoming Democratic presidential primaries. 0:06:31: George Wallace speaking at a press conference in Mobile, Alabama, during a visit to the Alabama State Docks. Also included is a brief clip of the USS Alabama, which Wallace viewed while in Mobile. (The footage is silent.) 0:07:57: Secretary of State Mabel Amos and others tallying votes in Montgomery after the Democratic primaries on May 5, 1964. 0:08:19: Elizabeth Wright, head of the Urban Redevelopment Agency in Montgomery, addressing a meeting of the Dixie Lions Club on November 12, 1964. She presents three drawings illustrating proposed changes to Court Square, each of which significantly alters Court Street.
- Metadata URL:
- http://digital.archives.alabama.gov/cdm/ref/collection/wsfa/id/1318
- Language:
- eng
- Additional Rights Information:
- Copyright, Alabama Department of Archives and History. Donated by WSFA, https://www.wsfa.com.
- Original Collection:
- WSFA-TV (Television station : Montgomery, Ala.)
WSFA collection
Box D164, Item 0002 - Contributing Institution:
- Alabama. Department of Archives and History
- Rights:
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