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Series of WSB-TV newsfilm clips of African Americans picketing against racial discrimination in Americus, Georgia, 1965 August 2

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In this series of WSB-TV newsfilm clips from August 2, 1965, African Americans protest racial discrimination by picketing local stores in Americus, Georgia. African American boys appear to be waiting for a bus which pulls up to the roadside; a racially mixed group exits the chartered bus. Picketers in front of a Kwik-Chek in Americus carry signs with slogans that include, "Do not buy segregation," and "Will you help us stop this war? Don't buy anything downtown." Police watch the picketers as they walk, standing between the store and the demonstrators. The group is led by a man in a clerical collar, and includes two young children who march with the protesters and carry their own signs. An interracial group of picketers also protest in front of a Piggly Wiggly grocery store. A group of African Americans stand in a circle and sing, "Wade in the Water" in front of the Sumter County Courthouse.On August 2, 1965, twenty-three demonstrators were arrested for picketing stores in Americus and charged with trespassing for declining to remain in "picket-approved" areas. The Americus Times-Recorder reports that demonstrators were arrested in front of the Kwik-Chek store at 10 am and at 1 pm, with another group expected to arrive later that same afternoon. Civil rights demonstrations occurred sporadically in Sumter County between 1963 and 1965. After the July 20, 1965 arrest of four African American women for standing in a "white" line during an election, the Sumter County Movement, assisted by the Student Nonviolent Coordinating...
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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 Children
  2. African American Civil Rights Workers
  3. African Americans
  4. Americus
  5. Americus (Ga.)
  6. Boycotts
  7. Buses
  8. Civil Rights
  9. Civil Rights Demonstrations
  10. Civil Rights Workers
  11. Clergy
  12. Discrimination
  13. Georgia
  14. Grocery Trade
  15. History
  16. Picketing
  17. Police
  18. Race Discrimination
  19. Race Relations
  20. Segregation
  21. Signs And Signboards
  22. Singing
  23. Songs And Music
  24. Stores, Retail
  25. Wade In The Water (Song)

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