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WSB-TV newsfilm clip of reporter Abe Gallman commenting on developments in the ongoing legal battle over school desegregation in Atlanta, Georgia, 1970 January 30

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

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In this WSB newsfilm clip from January 30, 1970, white reporter Abe Gallman comments on developments in the ongoing legal battle over school desegregation in Atlanta, Georgia.The clip begins with reporter Abe Gallman standing in front of a large map of Atlanta posted on the wall behind him. Gallman explains that over the past two days lawyers in the Atlanta school desegregation case have focused on the high school boundary map displayed behind him. African American attorney Howard T. Moore, a lawyer for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) representing the African American families in the case, has argued that changes in the school board's plan would produce more integration. According to Gallman, Moore has suggested changes to the boundaries of Grady High School, Howard High School, West Fulton High School, Douglass High School, and Northside High School. Gallman indicates that attorneys for the school board have countered each of Moore's suggestions by outlining the problems each modification would create. To each of Moore's suggestions, the school board has responded by listing the problems the new arrangements would create. Gallman reports that Moore has finished making his recommendations for changes to the high school boundaries and on Tuesday, February 3, he will begin making recommendations to change the elementary school boundaries. Gallman anticipates the school board will "continue its point-by-point rebuttal" of Moore's suggestions.Attempts at school desegregation in Atlanta began in 1961. Although the Atlanta schools operated under a "freedom-of-choice" plan through the 1960s, African Americans...
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Gallman, Abe, 1942
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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 Lawyers
  2. African Americans
  3. Atlanta
  4. Atlanta (Ga.)
  5. Georgia
  6. History
  7. Lawyers
  8. Maps
  9. Race Relations
  10. Reporters And Reporting
  11. School Integration
  12. Segregation In Education

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