- Collection:
- Local Television Newsfilm Collections
- Title:
- Ku Klux Klan rally in Ballentine--outtakes.
- Creator:
- WIS-TV
- Contributor to Resource:
- Covington, Jim
- Publisher:
- Columbia, S.C. : University of South Carolina. Moving Image Research Collections
- Date of Original:
- 1965-06-19
- Subject:
- Ku Klux Klan (1915- )
South Carolina--Race relations--History--20th century
South Carolina--History
Hate speech
Civil rights--United States--History
Demonstrations--United States
Propaganda, Anti-communist
Racism - Location:
- United States, South Carolina, Richland County, Ballentine, 34.12432, -81.23732
- Medium:
- motion pictures (visual works)
- Type:
- MovingImage
- Format:
- video/H264
- Description:
- Ku Klux Klan rally held at Ballentine (in Richland County). Grand Dragons from five states attend as does the Klan's Imperial Wizard, Robert Sheldon, of Tuscaloosa. The rally features musicians performing from the stage. Women and children are present as well, some of them wearing Klan robes. Audio is intermittent but portions of speeches by Sheldon and two others can be heard. Klansmen burn a cross after the speeches.
- Metadata URL:
- http://digital.tcl.sc.edu/cdm/ref/collection/localtvnews/id/137
- Language:
- eng
- Additional Rights Information:
- Copyright Moving Image Research Collections. All rights reserved. For further information please contact University of South Carolina, Moving Image Research Collections, Columbia, SC 29208.
- Extent:
- Film: 16mm. Silent and sound. B&W. Reversal: positive. 1.37:1 (Academy). Variable-area optical. Acetate.
03:54 - Original Collection:
- Local Television Newsfilm Collections
WIS-TV News Story 65-558 - Contributing Institution:
- South Caroliniana Library
- Rights:
-
