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WSB-TV newsfilm clip of citizens welcoming president John F. Kennedy to the city as well as of civil rights workers protesting segregation at two restaurants in Nashville, Tennessee, 1963 May

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In this silent compilation WSB newsfilm clip from Nashville, Tennessee on May 18, 1963, crowds welcome president John F. Kennedy to the city; and on May 13, African American students protest segregation at two restaurants in town. The clip begins with people walking on the sidewalk; a bus drives by with a sign with the slogan "Welcome President Kennedy." Kennedy came to Nashville to celebrate the ninetieth anniversary of Vanderbilt University. There were no racial incidents while he was in the city. Also in the clip men stand outside the B & W Cafeteria, and a white doorman outside the Cross Keys Restaurant. African American students march on the sidewalk and crowd around doorways where police forcefully push the demonstrators away and let white people through the crowds. On May 13, anti-segregation demonstrators clashed with police and white citizens after protesting discrimination in restaurants. On May 15, members of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), including John Lewis, met with mayor Beverly Briley and with members of the Interim Biracial Committee and announced "signs of real progress."Title supplied by cataloger.
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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 Civil Rights Workers
  2. African American College Students
  3. African Americans
  4. Buses
  5. Civil Rights
  6. Civil Rights Demonstrations
  7. Civil Rights Movements
  8. Civil Rights Workers
  9. Demonstrations
  10. Direct Action
  11. Discrimination
  12. Discrimination In Restaurants
  13. Nashville
  14. Police
  15. Presidents
  16. Race Discrimination
  17. Restaurants
  18. Segregation
  19. Signs And Signboards
  20. Tennessee
  21. United States

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