- Collection:
- Local Television Newsfilm Collections
- Title:
- Dent on Lamar violence--outtakes
- Creator:
- WIS-TV
- Publisher:
- Columbia, S.C. : University of South Carolina. Moving Image Research Collections
- Date of Original:
- 1970-03-07
- Subject:
- School integration--South Carolina
Riots
Civil rights
Civil rights--Law and legislation - People:
- Dent, Harry S., 1930-2007
- Location:
- United States, South Carolina, Richland County, Columbia, 34.00071, -81.03481
- Medium:
- motion pictures (visual works)
- Type:
- MovingImage
- Format:
- video/H264
- Description:
- Harry Dent being interviewed. Explains President Nixon"s policy on violence. Dent says that the government believes that keeping the peace is the responsibility of the states and will not interfere and "create another Little Rock." These comments refer to the Lamar riots on March 3, 1970, when approximately 150-200 white men and women rioted in a violent response to court-ordered desegregation in Lamar, South Carolina. Rioters attacked buses carrying elementary to high school aged children, fought with law enforcement officers, and overturned two empty school buses that students had recently fled.
- Metadata URL:
- http://digital.tcl.sc.edu/cdm/ref/collection/localtvnews/id/371
- 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. Sound. Color. Reversal: positive. 1.37:1 (Academy). Magnetic. Acetate.
00:49 - Original Collection:
- Local Television Newsfilm Collections
WIS-TV News Story 70-374 (A) - Contributing Institution:
- South Caroliniana Library
- Rights:
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