Archival Footage for Brown v Board of Education

Young disappeared from a concert in 1945. While. In 1957 when the Supreme Court supported President Eisenhower's policy of school integration the Ku Klux Klan reacted angrily and I like Sadr City Alabama. You know Latin now you know how I really really do you really get me. Regular Manning would you like me to do anything. Don't need any rain for you. Why do you create around you and here with my rant. And you do like your own creed today don't we now being and always will be you know free. They don't integrate one learned how do you know what I want to be. Don't we integrate and integrate You literally never know integrate the valley. Field Days later again. You know the reason why I didn't read for you the day. To day you school integration is a fact of life and the KKK is still alive but

much diminished in its numbers. PSS. With the advent of the civil rights movement and the supreme court order to desegregation in 1954 the Ku Klux Klan sprang back to life. You know Fran. And I give up. They want to help. But this fight over this country from the onslaught of integration you know the system is they want it for old white children are like children in that building on to be integrated. Comicon moderated by my class of people. Great This will be just

Friday. Thank you both. I for one on direct diving for I know you want me. Thank God. That speech of Montgomery Alabama board has by us. But as the laws became fact fewer Goss's burned on the hilltops. It is disheartening reading incident. These scenes of a chain gang were filmed in Georgia on January 21st and 22nd 1938. But her day was dawning for eighty five hundred convicts in Georgia under a

1938 law. We did away with shackles and discontinued the hell Adams would gauged on the hottest days the coldest nights. You command the ship but Flying Enterprise to. As recently as the early 60s. State laws especially in the south perpetuated separate public facilities for whites and blacks increasingly became an issue during the presidency of John F. Kennedy who

responded to the massive call for equality dramatized in the March on Washington led by Martin Luther King and August 1963. The hand. And not. Obligation is to make that revolution people and constructive. Time they are asking the Congress to enact legislation giving all Americans the right to be in the public. It seems to me to be an element of the right. It is an arbitrary indignity that no American in 1953 should have to endure. That year was 1941 and the country got ill afford further delays in the

construction of naval vessels. When racial violence swept Detroit in July 1967 federal troops had to be called him and President Johnson demanded an end to the chaos. Clearly Rudy. Might. Have let me do it. Right. Right right from wrong. Congo it really would not be tolerated. So tonight you're president. Call reform. 0 0 0 5 3 1 0 0. I've actually joined in a common program to maintain law and order. The backlash to these eight days of anarchy and violence that began with the police raid on the black after hours clubs proved to be a major factor in the election of Richard Nixon in

1968. At forty dollars a week. The once powerful Senate majority leader Lyndon Johnson of Texas served in the frustrating office of vice president of the United States from January 20th 1961 to November 22nd 1963 the day President John F. Kennedy was assassinated. I found. That the tragedy and the karma of these are about a bind us together. You know if you are making us one people and our song.

So let us hear. How they resolve that John Fitzgerald Kennedy. Yeah not really you know our guy right. You know you used to follow President Johnson which set a record as an activist progressive president who used his considerable parliamentary skills to get much of Kennedy's programs and act into law including the civil rights the education and the Medicare bill the Medicare bill first proposed by and signed in the presence of one of Johnson's earlier predecessors President Truman. Or two. The Allies could use all the help they could get. And Monte made the most of what he got.

On September 20th 1958 the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. was stabbed by a black woman. His own nowhere occurring after surviving the attack which nearly cost him his life. King spoke with reporters. The pathetic aspect of this experience is not the end period to one individual. It demonstrates that a climate of hatred and bitterness. So for me it's areas of the nation that inevitably it feeds of extreme violence must erupt. I'm now convinced that if the negro holds the spirit of nonviolence I still go and example will challenge and help you not only America but the world. Ten years later on April 4th 1968 Martin Luther King Jr. was

assassinated. What. I bring about. The. Alabama. Roll. Record. For the record straight. From the road and I'm out. There grabbing all of the. Rest of the program. In March 1965 the Reverend Martin Luther King led to dramatic marches from Selma to Montgomery Alabama. The marchers were met with violence at the hands of segregationist forces but they reached their goal as they massed in front of Alabama state capital on March 25th 1965 President Lyndon Johnson had already called for a new voting rights law. Wherever there is discrimination there

right now to deny them the right to vote. It will establish a sample uniform standard which cannot be however young I wish they had heard so far. Our constitution and state officials refuse to cooperate then shut us down. We'll be registered by federal officials. There were demonstrations of support in many parts of the nation's voting rights bill was enacted into law on August 6 1965. When you go up you know very few it can that it be a big meeting ya know.

1965 President Lyndon Johnson had already called for a new voting rights law where ever there is discrimination. Therefore I will write down to deny the people the right to vote. It will establish a Sam uniform standard which cannot be. However when you actually have heard so far our Constitution and if state officials refuse to cooperate then citizen will be registered by federal officials. There were demonstrations of support in many parts of the nation with voting rights bill was enacted into law on August 6 1965. They're not going to go up you know very it. Can it

be a God and. And yet it is crack through the land breaker the Grammy night and regular baby gate. Yeah those kind and he probably knew that after three days of rioting by segregationists protesting her enrollment as the University of Alabama's first black student often when Lucy was first suspended then expelled by the university on March 2nd 1956 her lawyer Thurgood Marshall explained they united. They just take what. They really had met Ms looked. At required by telling us. There is no longer a kid in law that you think of Negroes. Do. You think you know whether the law. And the God of the land of the brain six weeks later all the rain was the memory of the Reverend Hugh Lawrence Foster she dropped all legal attempts to be reinstated at the university but her name remain part of civil rights history. They cause however briefly she was the

first to desegregation the University of Alabama led by a man by the sun. Including the Supreme Court's landmark decision on May 17th 1954 holding racial segregation in public schools unconstitutional. Thurgood Marshall argued 32 civil rights cases before the nation's highest court winning 29 of them. We recognize there is a horrific problem and we believe that the people I represent and I consider that is taking it for years. We believe that now is the time to get around to having our private truth

applied to the country and to the same effect that the law that you have all right. I'm just serving a solicitor general for a year and a half. He was himself appointed to the supreme court on June 13th 1967. President Johnson made the announcement. He was in the army and it is. Now a nation of men for a good night's rest. You can run a very close contest the Supreme Court may be broken by the resignation of Justice Thomas and Clark of the first black to become a Supreme Court justice was the great grandson of a slave. All right.

On August 28 1963. Civil rights leaders conducted a massive and orderly march on Washington to focus attention on equality for blacks in jobs and civil rights. The keynote theme was set by the Reverend Martin Luther King. I have a dream. That one day. When we. Live in that particular meaning that we are going to be. Created equal I have agreed. That run run run by anybody made on the road may be let down. We gathered at the table of the Brotherhood. I have a dream. One nonviolent home help passage of President

Kennedy's civil rights legislation in 1964. But violent death soon overtook both Martin Luther King and John F. Kennedy. And. Yet. After a year long bus boycott organized by Dr. Martin Luther King his first major civil rights battle was won when on November 13th 1956 the Supreme Court ruled against segregated public transportation and not going back to the buses bragging about the victory of being one.

This would be the defeat the everything that we've done for the last 12 months. Each of you has the responsibility to say that the committee you want to see that we act right on the bus. And the right of the state we can. Map out the strategy for the future of integration. Why. You know usually they called her the black you said in 1960 Wilma Rudolph won three gold medals at the romantics. Afflicted as a child with double pneumonia and scarlet fever. She lost the use of her left leg no matter if she learned to walk and to run. At Tennessee

State University. She had broken world records for 100 and 200 meters. She became an American sports ramón of the 60s. After a bout with a woman she ran in Moscow in 1961 and won. She was a fantastic athlete and that really engaging human being. Thank you thank you very much. Why. There is no just and I have no reason. For disagreement

any. Macondo than missionary religion. Alright alright I'll read that again. Election year 1948 the Democratic party adopts President Truman's civil rights platform as a bloc of Southern delegates walk out of the convention. Anyway did you get. A Southern Rock regroups to form their own party. The Dixiecrats are headed by Senator Strom Thurmond. Ron commanded Ruach she really wanted him to stay fat maintained and constitutional government. Despite the party split. Truman wins the election with an overwhelming 3 million vote margin. During World War Two nearly one million black Americans served in the armed forces which at

that time was still largely segregated after D-Day. They played a vital role in keeping the supply lines open in the first crucial months of the battle for France. They serve mostly on the engineer. Transportation one of M. an ordinance called. Thank. God they own so made up to fighting divisions. The mining third in the Pacific and the ninety second I mean Italian front. Leg of the division was commanded by General Mark Clark the 90 second had its ups and downs. What exactly was not highly motivated. Many of us draftees came from four southern rural backgrounds with little or no education and long subject relations discrimination cycle. Inside its like there was no worse or better than most other divisions in the Italian campaign. Desegregation eventually came as a result of an executive order by President Truman in 1948 almost on the last all black regiment the 24th Infantry was officially disbanded in

1951.