Skip to main content

WSB-TV newsfilm clip of Orleans Parish superintendent of schools Dr. James Redmond and school board president Lloyd Rittiner speaking to a reporter following the first day of court-ordered school desegregation, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1960 November 14

Thumbnail for WSB-TV newsfilm clip of Orleans Parish superintendent of schools Dr. James Redmond and school board president Lloyd Rittiner speaking to a reporter following the first day of court-ordered school desegregation, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1960 November 14
View
@ Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection

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

Description

In this WSB newsfilm clip from November 14, 1960, a reporter interviews Orleans Parish School Board president Lloyd Rittiner and superintendent of schools Dr. James Redmond about the first day of court-ordered school integration in New Orleans, Louisiana. The clip's audio may be difficult to hear at times.The clip begins with the reporter, Lloyd Rittiner, and Dr. James Redmond standing in front of a wall-mounted map of the city of New Orleans. The reporter asks school board president Rittiner if the first day of integrated classes in New Orleans public school went well. Rittiner reports that he is pleased that "the people of Orleans Parish have accepted a difficult situation very admirably." Continuing, Rittiner expresses his belief that while some anti-integration demonstrations may continue, "the worst is over." The reporter next turns to Dr. James Redmond and asks him about legislation passed by the Louisiana state legislature the day before, Sunday, November 13, seeking to forcibly prevent desegregation by firing Dr. Redmond and the school board's lawyer, Sam Rosenberg. Dr. Redmond declares that he still works for the Orleans Parish School Board. Asked if there have been reports on the day's events from teachers or principals, Dr. Redmond indicates that the school board wanted to let the teachers and principals concentrate on their work and did not ask them for reports. After a break in the clip, the reporter asks Rittiner if he expects more interference from the state legislature. Rittiner replies that he anticipates that any legislation trying to...
Type:
Video
Contributors:
Redmond, James FRittiner, Lloyd J., 1916-1991
View Original At:

Record Contributed By

Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection

Record Harvested From

Digital Library of Georgia

Keywords

  1. African Americans
  2. Central Local Government Relations
  3. Civil Rights
  4. Government
  5. History
  6. Louisiana
  7. Maps
  8. Massive Resistance Movement
  9. New Orleans
  10. New Orleans (La.)
  11. Politics And Government
  12. Race Relations
  13. Reporters And Reporting
  14. School Board Presidents
  15. School Boards
  16. School Integration
  17. School Superintendents
  18. Segregation In Education

Related Content

WSB-TV newsfilm clip of Orleans Parish School Board president Lloyd Rittiner speaking to a reporter about attempts to avoid compliance with court-ordered school desegregation in New Orleans, Louisiana, 1960 August Series of WSB-TV newsfilm clips in which a reporter interviews Orleans Parish School Board member Matthew Sutherland; white men meet in offices and outside office buildings; Louisiana attorney general Jack Gremillion speaks to a reporter; Louisiana legislators speak about court-ordered school integration; white demonstrators protest the integration of New Orleans schools; a white man speaks at a Citizens' Council rally; and reporters speak to several local leaders outside of district court in New Orleans and Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 1960 November Series of WSB-TV newsfilm clips of a paid newspaper advertisement urging community support for the Orleans Parish School Board and white demonstrators protesting court-ordered desegregation at McDonogh 19 and William Frantz elementary schools in New Orleans, Louisiana, 1960 November and December WSB-TV newsfilm clip of interviews with Police Chief Joseph Giarrusso, the Gabrielle family, and Mayor deLesseps Morrison as well as images of the community of New Orleans, Louisiana, 1960 November Series of WSB-TV newsfilm clips of an interracial classroom, interviews with Armand Duvio and Louise Tate, a reporter speaking about the influence of the Louisiana legislature, and outtakes from commentary on the school integration crisis in New Orleans, Louisiana, 1960 December WSB-TV newsfilm clip of reporter Ray Moore interviewing attorney and city councilman Fred J. Cassibry about the effect of court-ordered school integration on businesses in New Orleans, Louisiana, and out-takes of Moore in a legislative chamber commenting on the state legislature's opposition to New Orleans school integration, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 1960 November WSB-TV newsfilm clip of white demonstrators protesting court-ordered school desegregation; city and state officials urging parents to discourage their children from demonstrating; people injured by the demonstrating mob in the hospital; and debates by state legislators, New Orleans and Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 1960 November 16 WSB-TV newsfilm clip of Orleans Parish School Board president Lloyd Rittiner and member Emile Wagner speaking about court-ordered school desegregation in New Orleans, Louisiana, 1960 Series of WSB-TV newsfilm clips of comments regarding integration of education in Georgia by Board of Regents member Roy V. Harris and House of Representatives members Frank Twitty and A'Delbert Bowen in Atlanta, Georgia, 1961 January WSB-TV newsfilm clip of reporters interviewing Reverend Billy Graham about the court-ordered school integration in New Orleans, Louisiana, 1960 November WSB-TV newsfilm clip of African American first-grade girls integrating McDonogh 19 Elementary School as they are watched by white policemen and by cheering African Americans in New Orleans, Louisiana, 1960 November 14 WSB-TV newsfilm clip of African American children and their mothers apparently registering to attend previously all-white Catholic elementary schools in New Orleans, Louisiana, 1962 June 5 WSB-TV newsfilm clip of white demonstrators protesting the court-ordered integration of schools in New Orleans, Louisiana, 1960 November 14 Newspaper articles on African Americans and politics in Louisiana WSB-TV newsfilm clip of students at Andrew H. Wilson and William Frantz elementary schools, two of six integrated schools in New Orleans, Louisiana, 1961 September WSB-TV newsfilm clip of white women driving Daisy Gabrielle and her first grade daughter, Yolanda, to the newly integrated William Frantz Public School; white demonstrators protesting the school's integration; and cars parked in a parking lot in New Orleans, Louisiana, 1960 November or December WSB-TV newsfilm clip of law enforcement officers trying to control white demonstrators protesting the court-ordered integration of elementary schools in New Orleans, Louisiana, 1960 November 16 Series of WSB-TV newsfilm clips of students at the University of Georgia responding to an unidentified reporter's questions regarding the schools integration in Athens, Georgia, 1961 January WSB-TV newsfilm clip of Myers Hall dormitory mother Minnie Porter speaking to a reporter and senator Carl Sanders speaking about a riot at the University of Georgia as well as images from Athens, Georgia, 1961 January 12 Series of WSB-TV newsfilm clips of African American lawyers commenting on the University of Georgia's integration, students' replies to a reporter's questions, and African American students at the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia, 1961 January 9
Download JSON