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

Description

In this series of WSB-TV Newsfilm clips, NAACP leaders (probably Georgia state senator Leroy Johnson and Dr. John P. Davis) present their position to request that the U.S. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development withhold funds for public housing in Atlanta until the city adopts a more integrated approach to housing. Mayor Ivan Allen responds to their comments. The press sessions were done at different times, probably between the first part of April through May of 1967 for a story aired June 1, 1967.The first clip shows Mr. Johnson discussing the Atlanta Housing Authority and asserting that units are still segregated. He also states that the proposal for new housing was "located totally in a Negro community." Finally, he notes that HUD has created a policy whereby no units would be "built in a totally segregated area or in a ghetto," while Atlanta continues "a segregated pattern."In the next clip, Mayor Allen is shown with an unidentified reporter. He states that, as far as he knows, Atlanta's public housing is integrated, and that there is "no effort on the part of the city of Atlanta to in any way create a racially segregated public housing program."In the next clip, a representative from NAACP (possibly Dr. John P. Davis) says that they are asking "Mr. Weaver, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, to withhold funds to public housing and urban renewal programs until all discriminatory practices are eliminated" and fund for model cities programs for Atlanta should be withheld until the...

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Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection

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Digital Library of Georgia