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WSB-TV newsfilm clip of a meeting between the Bibb County Board of Commissioners and members of a special committee of the local branch of National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) urging equal employment opportunities for African Americans; also Mayor Ronnie Thompson speaks to a meeting of the Optimists Club, Macon, Georgia, 1971 July 20

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

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In this WSB newsfilm clip from July 20, 1970, members of a special committee of the local National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) meet with the Bibb County Board of Commissioners to discuss equal employment opportunities for African Americans in Macon, Georgia; also Macon mayor Ronnie Thompson speaks to a meeting of the Optimists Club.The clip is divided into two segments, part 1 and b-roll. Part one of the clip begins with a brief view of the Bibb County Courthouse in downtown Macon. Inside the county building, African American and white men sit down around a table. A white man in a brown suit appears to speak. His comments are not recorded. Next Reverend Julius C. Hope, Macon minister and president of the Georgia NAACP, opens with the proverb of walking a mile in another person's shoes. Hope explains that African Americans in the community are tired of living with unfulfilled promises for so long. He believes that consideration of the situation is "long overdue." Bibb County commissioner F. Emory Greene, responds to Hope's comments and agrees that African Americans should be represented at all levels of government. However, Greene asserts that that people should not be fired because they are of the "wrong" race. He concludes officials should consider hiring "qualified Blacks as the vacancy exists" but does not support creating vacancies just for African Americans. Behind Greene, men and women sit in two rows aong the wall of the conference room. The camera looks through...
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Hope, Julius C. (Julius Caesar), 1932Zimmerman, EarlThompson, RonnieGreene, F. Emory, 1930-1990
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