- Collection:
- WSB-TV Newsfilm Collection
- Title:
- WSB-TV newsfilm clip of George Huddleston, Jr., Alabama congressman, suggesting connections between communists and civil rights workers in Washington, D.C., 1963 May 13
- Creator:
- WSB-TV (Television station : Atlanta, Ga.)
- Contributor to Resource:
- Huddleston, George, 1920-1971
- Date of Original:
- 1963-05-13
- Subject:
- Legislators--United States
Communism--United States
Civil rights movements--Alabama--Birmingham
Segregation--Alabama--Birmingham
Governmental investigations--United States
Subversive activities--Alabama--Birmingham
Project C, Birmingham, Ala., 1963 - People:
- Huddleston, George, 1920-1971
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968
O'Dell, Jack (Jack H.) - Location:
- United States, Alabama, Jefferson County, Birmingham, 33.52066, -86.80249
United States, District of Columbia, Washington, 38.89511, -77.03637 - Medium:
- moving images
news
unedited footage - Type:
- MovingImage
- Format:
- video/mp4
- Description:
- In this WSB newsfilm clip from May 13, 1963, Alabama congressman George Huddleston, Jr., Birmingham-area representative, speaks to reporters from his office and suggests that Communist connections in the Civil Rights movement warrants congressional investigation into desegregation efforts in Birmingham, Alabama. Huddleston asserts that Jack O'Dell, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s executive assistant, "is a self-admitted Communist party member." He suggests that the House Un-American Activities Committee and the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee should examine "those racial disturbances which have occurred in our city" for "subversive background[s] or subversive motive[s]." King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) were assisted in their efforts by Jack O'Dell, who had attended Communist party meetings but never became a member of the Communist party. The allegation of "subversive activities" and ties to the Communist party were frequently used by segregationist leaders in an attempt to discredit King and the Civil Rights movement.
Title supplied by cataloger. - Local Identifier:
- Clip number: wsbn35351
- Metadata URL:
- https://crdl.usg.edu/id:ugabma_wsbn_wsbn35351
- Digital Object URL:
- https://crdl.usg.edu/do:ugabma_wsbn_wsbn35351
- IIIF manifest:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/ugabma_wsbn_wsbn35351/presentation/manifest.json
- Language:
- eng
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: wsbn35351, WSB-TV newsfilm clip of George Huddleston, Jr., Alabama congressman, suggesting connections between communists and civil rights workers in Washington, D.C., 1963 May 13, WSB-TV newsfilm collection, reel 0784, 42:11/42:50, Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection, The University of Georgia Libraries, Athens, Georgia
- Extent:
- 1 clip (about 39 secs.): black-and-white, sound ; 16 mm.
- Original Collection:
- Original found in the WSB-TV newsfilm collection.
- Contributing Institution:
- Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection
- Rights:
-
