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Series of WSB-TV newsfilm clips of members of the Harlem Consumers Committee picketing a Chock Full O'Nuts restaurant and Jackie Robinson standing by his statement condemning racial slurs, Harlem, New York, 1962 July 14

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In this series of WSB-TV newsfilm clips from July 14, 1962 in Harlem, New York, members of the Harlem Consumers Committee picket a Chock Full O'Nuts restaurant and Jackie Robinson stands by his statement condemning racial slurs.The clips open with silent scenes of members of the Harlem Consumers Committee picketing outside Chock Full O'Nuts on 125th Street in Harlem. Many black protesters can be seen wearing sandwichboard-style posters. A black man is seen wearing a sign that says "Jackie is a Classified So Called Negro!" There are more shots of protesters. A different black man is seen wearing a sign reading "Jackie Robinson Speaks Against the Black People of Harlem." Then there is another shot of picketers outside the storefront. This series of clips ends with a shot of a black man looking into the camera and shaking his head.The next scene shows Jackie Robinson being interviewed by a white man in what appears to be a baseball clubhouse. The interviewer asks, "...comment on the threatened picketing of the Chock Full O'Nuts by the Black Nationalists?"Jackie Robinson's response is transcribed below:"I say let 'em picket. You know, all of my life I've been fighting against the same kinds of things these fellows are doing, and this is a matter of principle with me, and if they want to go down there and picket, let 'em picket. But I have a right to my opinion and any time any group--I don't care whether Negro, Puerto Rican, white, what have you--use racial...
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Robinson, Jackie, 1919-1972
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Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection

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Digital Library of Georgia

Keywords

  1. Discrimination
  2. New York (State)
  3. Picketing
  4. Race Discrimination
  5. Racism In Language

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