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WSB-TV newsfilm clip of Eugene "Bull" Connor addressing a White Citizens' Council rally and preparation for the University of Alabama integration in Holt, Alabama, and Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 1963 June 7

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In this WSB newsfilm clip from June 7, 1963, Eugene "Bull" Connor addresses a Citizens' Council rally in Holt, Alabama; and in Tuscaloosa, Alabama officials prepare the University of Alabama campus for the scheduled June 11 integration.The clip begins by showing the building housing the university's administrative headquarters (now known as Carmichael Hall), and then showing Clark Hall, the arts and sciences building, and tree-lined streets. Across the street from the Foster Auditorium a parking lot sign reads, "Student parking only 7:30 am - 3:00 pm." The road passing by sorority houses near the football stadium is closed and blocked to traffic. A police car and a truck with an "Alabama" sign drive down other streets and white students walk around the campus. Next, Eugene "Bull" Connor, former commissioner of safety in Birmingham, speaks to a Citizen's Council rally in Holt, a town near the university's home in Tuscaloosa. Connor stresses the importance of keeping people of different races apart and asks his audience not to go to the University of Alabama campus for its scheduled integration. He repeats the request of Alabama governor George Wallace that citizens stay away from the campus and let the government officials handle the integration. Connor believes that United States President John F. Kennedy and attorney general Robert Kennedy would like to see trouble in the university's integration and declares, "if we don't have any trouble we can beat them at their own game!"In 1956 after a three-year court battle, Autherine Lucy became the...
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Connor, Eugene, 1897-1973
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Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection

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Digital Library of Georgia

Keywords

  1. Alabama
  2. College Integration
  3. History
  4. Massive Resistance Movement
  5. Police Vehicles
  6. Race Relations
  7. School Integration
  8. Segregation
  9. Tuscaloosa
  10. Tuscaloosa (Ala.)
  11. White Citizens Councils

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