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Series of WSB-TV newsfilm clips of activities organized for Poor People's Campaign participants visiting Atlanta and a Poor People's Campaign rally with speakers Coretta Scott King, Ralph D. Abernathy and Hosea Williams, Atlanta, Georgia, 1968 May 9

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In this WSB newsfilm clip dated May 9, 1968, Poor People's Campaign participants traveling by bus make a stop in Atlanta before heading north to Washington, D.C. A caravan of tour buses drives along a highway; demonstrators serve themselves food inside of the gymnasium at Morehouse College; Alberta Williams King addresses a large group of people in front of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthplace at 501 Auburn Avenue in Atlanta; and Coretta Scott King, Reverend Hosea Williams, and Reverend Ralph D. Abernathy speak at a Poor People's Campaign rally at the Atlanta Civic Center.The clip, which is approximately ten minutes long, opens with a procession of tour buses driving down a highway. This is followed by a shot of a tour bus parked on a street, and then by a shot of an African American man helping passengers off of a bus. Next, a line of people gather inside of Archer Hall (Morehouse College's gymnasium), and serve themselves food from a long row of tables stocked with casseroles and prepared dishes. Next, Alberta Williams King (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s mother) speaks to a large group of people, predominantly African American, who have gathered outside of King's childhood home on Auburn Avenue in Atlanta; she recalls some of her son's childhood activities in the neighborhood. As she speaks, she rests her hands on Reverend Howard Creecy, Sr.'s shoulder. The clip jumps, and for a moment, she appears to be taken over by grief. After another jump in the clip,...
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King, Coretta Scott, 1927-2006Abernathy, Ralph, 1926-1990Williams, Hosea, 1926-2000King, Alberta Williams, 1904-1974
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Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection

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Digital Library of Georgia

Keywords

  1. Affirmations
  2. African American Civil Rights Workers
  3. African American Clergy
  4. African American Women
  5. African Americans
  6. Applause
  7. Atlanta
  8. Atlanta (Ga.)
  9. Audiences
  10. Bereavement
  11. Birthplaces
  12. Buffets (Cooking)
  13. Buses
  14. Caravans
  15. Casserole Cooking
  16. Citizen Participation
  17. Civil Rights
  18. Civil Rights Demonstrations
  19. Civil Rights Movements
  20. Civil Rights Workers
  21. Clergy
  22. Colorado
  23. Demonstrations
  24. Dinners And Dining
  25. Discrimination
  26. Economic Assistance, Domestic
  27. Economic Conditions
  28. Ethics
  29. Express Highways
  30. Fatigue
  31. Georgia
  32. Government
  33. Grief
  34. Gymnasiums
  35. Historic Buildings
  36. History
  37. Human Rights
  38. Indian Reservations
  39. Indians Of North America
  40. Marks
  41. Marks (Miss.)
  42. Memorials
  43. Microphone
  44. Mississippi
  45. Police Brutality
  46. Politics And Government
  47. Poor
  48. Poor African Americans
  49. Poverty
  50. Protest Marches
  51. Race Discrimination
  52. Race Relations
  53. Roads
  54. Services For
  55. Social Conditions
  56. Social Movements
  57. Social Service
  58. Southern States
  59. Spectators
  60. Speeches, Addresses, Etc
  61. Stadiums
  62. Streets
  63. Struggle
  64. Table
  65. Tables
  66. Tour Bus Parking
  67. Tour Buses
  68. Travelers
  69. United States
  70. Values
  71. Washington (D.C.)
  72. We Shall Overcome (Song)
  73. Women

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