- Collection:
- WSFA Collection
- Title:
- WSFA audiovisual item D130.0005
- Publisher:
- Montgomery, Ala. : Alabama Department of Archives and History
- Date of Original:
- 1961-05
- Subject:
- Alabama. National Guard
African Americans--Civil rights
African Americans--Employment
Alabama State Capitol (Montgomery, Ala.)
Buildings
Buses
Industries
Church buildings
Civil rights demonstrations
Civil rights workers
Freedom Rides, 1961
Governors--Alabama
Health facilities
Hospitals
Police
Nuns
Nurses
Offices
Political science
Race relations--Alabama
Segregation--Alabama
Schools
Soldiers
Stores, Retail
Streets
Transportation
Montgomery (Ala.)
Montgomery County (Ala.) - People:
- Abernathy, Ralph, 1926-1990
Butler, Mac Sim
Mann, Floyd, 1920-1996
Shuttlesworth, Fred L., 1922-2011
Walker, Wyatt Tee, 1929-
Wallace, George C. (George Corley), 1919-1998 - Location:
- United States, Alabama, 32.75041, -86.75026
- Medium:
- videotapes
- Type:
- MovingImage
- Format:
- video/mp4
- Description:
- The following segments are included: 0:00:01: National Guard members, police officers, and highway patrolmen outside the Trailways station on Lee Street in downtown Montgomery, Alabama, waiting for the Freedom Riders to leave on a bus for Jackson, Mississippi, on May 24 or 25, 1961. 0:00:55: Sheriff Mac Sim Butler arresting Fred Shuttlesworth, Wyatt Tee Walker, Ralph Abernathy, and others at the Trailways station in Montgomery, Alabama, on May 25, 1961. The men were charged with disturbing the peace after that sat at the station's white lunch counter while waiting to board a bus for Jackson, Mississippi. 0:01:34: Police officers in Montgomery, Alabama, searching an office. Included in the clip is a clipboard
men searching through a box and an empty desk
and a room of long desks of and an office area full of typewriters on long desks. (Though nothing on the original film describes this scene, it may be related to several bomb threats that were made during the Montgomery Freedom Rides in May and June 1961.) 0:01:53: Governor George Wallace speaking at a press conference from his desk at the Capitol. 0:01:59: Downtown Montgomery, Alabama, probably in the 1970s. 0:02:26: Downtown Montgomery, Alabama, probably in the late 1960s. 0:03:06: Sidney Lanier High School in Montgomery, Alabama, probably in the late 1960s. 0:03:23: St. Jude Catholic Hospital in Montgomery, Alabama. - Metadata URL:
- http://digital.archives.alabama.gov/cdm/ref/collection/wsfa/id/28
- Language:
- eng
- Contributing Institution:
- Alabama. Department of Archives and History
- Rights:
-
