WSB-TV newsfilm clip of African Americans celebrating and demonstrating as they prepare for the Poor People's March on Washington, 1968
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@ Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection
WSB-TV (Television station : Atlanta, Ga.)
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In this WSB newsfilm clip dated 1968, Poor People's Campaign participants stop in Atlanta en route to Washington D.C., where protests are scheduled; they eat at Morehouse College, view Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthplace and grave site, and attend a preliminary rally at the Atlanta Civic Center. Alberta Williams King speaks to an audience in front of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthplace at 501 Auburn Avenue; Reverend Joseph E. Boone speaks to mourners at King's original burial site at South-View Cemetery; Coretta Scott King addresses a Poor People's Campaign rally at the Atlanta Civic Center; and Gladys Knight and the Pips and Stevie Wonder perform for the rally audience. Some images in the clip repeat.The clip, which is approximately seven minutes long, begins with several shots taken of a march in Atlanta that precedes the Poor People's Campaign in Washington, D.C. Shots of the march are interspersed with a close-up shot of a group of spectators; several people carry a banner that reads "I'm on my way Poor people's march on Washington." Next, a large group of African American people serve themselves food from a series of tables filled with casseroles and prepared foods inside of the Archer Hall gymnasium at Morehouse College. A reporter (off camera) asks an unidentified elderly African American woman from Mississippi how far she is traveling; she tells him that she is going to Washington, D.C., that she will stay there "for a while," then return to Mississippi; she then agrees that she...Record Contributed By
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Digital Library of GeorgiaKeywords
- African American Churches
- African American Civic Leaders
- African American Civil Rights Workers
- African American Clergy
- African American Entertainers
- African American Musicians
- African American Neighborhoods
- African Americans
- Archer Hall (Morehouse College)
- Atlanta
- Atlanta (Ga.)
- Atlanta Stadium (Atlanta, Ga.)
- Auburn Avenue (Atlanta, Ga.)
- Audiences
- Band Musicians
- Bands (Music)
- Banners
- Bereavement
- Birthplace
- Birthplaces
- Buffets (Cooking)
- Bundles Of Personal Belongings
- Burial
- Camera Operators
- Caravans
- Casserole Cooking
- Church Attendance
- Church Buildings
- Church Doors
- Church Doorways
- Church Membership
- Citizen Participation
- Civic Center (Atlanta, Ga.)
- Civil Rights
- Civil Rights Demonstrations
- Civil Rights Movements
- Civil Rights Workers
- Crying
- Death And Burial
- Demonstrations
- Diana Ross And The Supremes
- Dinners And Dining
- Discrimination
- Ebenezer Baptist Church (Atlanta, Ga.)
- Economic Assistance, Domestic
- Economic Conditions
- Elderly Poor
- Entertainers
- Epitaphs
- Food
- Georgia
- Gladys Knight And The Pips
- Government
- Grief
- Guest, William
- Gymnasiums
- Handkerchiefs
- Historic Buildings
- Historical Markers
- History
- Homes And Haunts
- Influence
- King, Alberta Williams, 1903 1974
- King, Coretta Scott, 1927 2006
- King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929 1968
- Knight, Gladys, 1944
- Knight, Merald
- Luggage
- Memorial Rites And Ceremonies
- Memorial Service
- Memorials
- Microphone
- Monuments
- Morehouse College (Atlanta, Ga.)
- Motorcycles
- Motown Record Corporation
- Musicians
- Older African Americans
- Older People
- Passersby
- Patten, Edward
- Performances
- Politics And Government
- Poor
- Poor African Americans
- Poor People's Campaign
- Poverty
- Race Relations
- Reporters And Reporting
- Rhythm And Blues Musicians
- Ross, Diana, 1944
- School Buses
- Sepulchral Monuments
- Services For
- Signs And Signboards
- Social Conditions
- Social Movements
- Social Service
- Soul Musicians
- South View Cemetery (Atlanta, Ga.)
- Southern Christian Leadership Conference
- Southern States
- Spectators
- Speeches, Addresses, Etc
- Stadiums
- Table
- Tables
- Temptations (Musical Group)
- Tour Bus Parking
- Tour Buses
- Travelers
- United States
- Washington (D.C.)
- We Shall Overcome
- Wonder, Stevie