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WSB-TV newsfilm clip of students blocked from integrating Albany Carnegie Library and a park in Albany, Georgia, 1962 August 13

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In this WSB newsfilm clip, groups of unidentified Albany police officers led by Albany police chief Laurie Pritchett block access to the park and watch as unidentified African American students try the locked doors of the Albany Carnegie Library on Monday, August 13, 1962. A white student and a black student attempt to play tennis at an Albany park, possibly Tift Park, and are turned away by the police. A group of male and female students try to enter the library but find the doors locked. Another group of young men try two doors they also find locked. After interpreting comments made by Recorders' Court Judge A. N. Durden, Sr. to mean the city would no longer enforce segregation statutes, Charles Jones and members of the Student Nonviolence Coordinating Committee (SNCC) arranged tests of city facilities to see if the city had stopped enforcing segregation. Mayor Asa D. Kelley, Jr. announces that the comments made by Judge Durden did not mean the city was no longer enforcing segregation. In response, the Albany City Commission closes public facilities including the library and parks.Title supplied by cataloger.IMLS Grant, 2008.Digibeta Center Cut (4 x 3) downconvert from HDD5 1080/23.98PsF film transfer. WSB comp reel 1.
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Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection

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Digital Library of Georgia

Keywords

  1. African American Students
  2. African Americans
  3. Albany
  4. Albany (Ga.)
  5. Civil Rights
  6. Civil Rights Demonstrations
  7. Civil Rights Movements
  8. Direct Action
  9. Discrimination
  10. Discrimination In Public Accommodations
  11. Georgia
  12. Government
  13. History
  14. Mayors
  15. Passive Resistance
  16. Police
  17. Police Chiefs
  18. Politics And Government
  19. Race Relations
  20. Segregation

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