- Collection:
- Civil rights films from USC's moving image research collections
- Title:
- Department of Mental Health desegregation plans--outtakes
- Creator:
- WIS-TV
- Publisher:
- University of South Carolina. Moving Image Research Collections
- Date of Original:
- 1965-07-22
- Subject:
- Public health
United States. Civil Rights Act of 1964
Civil rights
Civil rights--Law and legislation
Segregation
South Carolina State Hospital - Location:
- United States, South Carolina, Richland County, 34.0218, -80.90304
United States, South Carolina, Richland County, Columbia, 34.00071, -81.03481 - Medium:
- motion pictures (visual works)
- Type:
- MovingImage
- Format:
- video/H264
- Description:
- Interior: various scenes of a press conference. Medium shot Dr. William Hall, State Commissioner of Mental Health speaking. Speaks about proposed facility desegregation plans in order to comply with the Civil Rights Act. Plans include admitting all persons under 65 into the South Carolina State Hospital, "regardless of race, color, or national origin." Once this step is complete, all patients over the age of 65 are to be moved to the Palmetto State Hospital. (The facility would later be renamed Crafts-Farrow State Hospital). Hall speaks about the possible problems that may occur.
- Metadata URL:
- http://cdm17173.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p17173coll18/id/163
- 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:
- Silent and sound
Film: 16mm. Silent and sound. B&W. Reversal: positive. 1.37:1 (Academy). Variable-area optical. Acetate.
02:32 - Original Collection:
- Civil Rights Films from Moving Image Research Collections
- Contributing Institution:
- University of South Carolina. Moving Image Research Collections
University of South Carolina. South Carolina Political Collections - Rights:
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