WSB-TV (Television station : Atlanta, Ga.)

Description

In this WSB newsfilm clip from November 27, 1968, an unidentified spokesperson from Buehler's Super Markets, a grocery store chain with four stores in Atlanta, describes the hiring and management practices of the company to three reporters. The interview is conducted at a cash register inside of a grocery store, presumably Buehler's. The spokesperson reports "out of our seventy-one employees, fifty-three of them are negroes, we have several assistant managers who are negroes, and we are placing one as store manager at 90 Broad Street as of December the first." The clip jumps, truncating a question posed by an African American reporter who asks the Buehler's spokesperson to account for why there are African Americans who "have never been in the retirement home." The spokesperson responds that, based on the information he has received from the trustees who operate the retirement home, "there were very few black people whom ever made application to make this their home." He is cut off in mid-sentence by another jump in the clip. The next section of the clip has no audio track; it shows the Buehler's spokesperson and a reporter filmed from behind, while WSB reporter John Pruitt, listening intently, is filmed from the front.On November 27, 1968, executives of Buehler's Super Markets dropped a one million dollar lawsuit against the Concerned Clergymen of Atlanta. The lawsuit charged the organization with attempting to extort fifty thousand dollars in donations on an annual basis from the supermarket chain. The suit was brought in response...

Record Contributed By

Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection

Record Harvested From

Digital Library of Georgia