- Collection:
- WSB-TV Newsfilm Collection
- Title:
- WSB-TV newsfilm clip of white students at the University of Georgia signing petitions requesting that the state legislature keep the school open after court-ordered integration in Athens, Georgia, 1961 January 8
- Creator:
- WSB-TV (Television station : Atlanta, Ga.)
- Date of Original:
- 1961-01-08
- Subject:
- College students--Georgia--Athens
African American college students--Georgia--Athens
College integration--Georgia--Athens
Petitions--Georgia--Athens
Dormitories--Georgia--Athens
College integration--Georgia--Athens--Public opinion
Public opinion--Georgia--Athens
Segregation in education--Georgia--Athens - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Clarke County, Athens, 33.96095, -83.37794
- Medium:
- moving images
news
unedited footage - Type:
- MovingImage
- Format:
- video/mp4
- Description:
- In this silent WSB newsfilm clip from Athens, Georgia in January 8, 1961, unidentified white students at the University of Georgia sign a petition to the state legislature requesting the university stay open after court-ordered integration. In the clip, a male student sitting on his bed signs the petition. Another student hands the petition to someone else, who then signs it.
Charlayne Hunter and Hamilton Holmes first applied to the University of Georgia in July 1959. University officials claimed "lack of space" and refused to admit the two African American students for several quarters. In the fall of 1960, African American attorneys Donald Hollowell, Constance B. Motley, and Horace T. Ward filed a federal lawsuit seeking admission for the two students. Federal judge William A. Bootle on January 6, 1961 ordered the university to admit the two students, ending the university's segregation. On January 8, several hundred white students gathered at the chapel on campus and signed a petition asking the legislature not to close the now-integrated university; the petition with 2,600 signatures was presented to Frank Twitty of the House of Representatives the next morning.
Title supplied by cataloger. - Local Identifier:
- Clip number: wsbn43205
- Metadata URL:
- https://crdl.usg.edu/id:ugabma_wsbn_wsbn43205
- Digital Object URL:
- https://crdl.usg.edu/do:ugabma_wsbn_wsbn43205
- IIIF manifest:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/ugabma_wsbn_wsbn43205/presentation/manifest.json
- Language:
- eng
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: wsbn43205, WSB-TV newsfilm clip of white students at the University of Georgia signing petitions requesting that the state legislature keep the school open after court-ordered integration in Athens, Georgia, 1961 January 8, WSB-TV newsfilm collection, reel 0970, 2:46/03:14, Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection, The University of Georgia Libraries, Athens, Georgia
- Extent:
- 1 clip (about 28 secs.): black-and-white, silent ; 16 mm.
- Original Collection:
- Original found in the WSB-TV newsfilm collection.
- Contributing Institution:
- Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection
- Rights:
-
