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WSB-TV newsfilm clip of African American students--the "Little Rock Nine"--integrating Central High School and white students burning an effigy in protest in Little Rock, Arkansas, 1957 October 3

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In this silent WSB newsfilm clip from October 3, 1957, African American students integrate Little Rock Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas; white students later leave the school in protest and hang and burn an effigy of a black student. As the clip begins, several African American female students exit a station wagon and walk between police toward the high school. A group of white students is seen walking through the doors of the school and down the front steps. Next, a crowd stands around a tree where an effigy of an African American is hung from one of the branches. Boys tear the effigy and light it on fire. A military police officer takes the effigy down and tries to put the fire out by stomping on it. Finally, the clip ends with Arkansas governor Orval Faubus sitting behind a table with microphones, surrounded by other men. Governor Faubus was at a conference of southern governors in Sea Island, Georgia, during the September 23 integration attempt.The Little Rock school board voted to integrate the school system in 1957; on September 4, 1957, Governor Faubus ordered Arkansas National Guard troops to prevent African American students--the "Little Rock Nine"--from attending Little Rock Central High School. Federal courts ordered Governor Faubus to remove the troops and permit the nine students to enter the school on September 23, 1957. However, because of the rioting that continued outside, the students were removed from the school after three hours. President Dwight D. Eisenhower ordered...
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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 Students
  2. African Americans
  3. Arkansas
  4. Demonstrations
  5. Executions In Effigy
  6. Governors
  7. High School Students
  8. History
  9. Little Rock
  10. Little Rock (Ark.)
  11. Police
  12. Race Relations
  13. Race Riots
  14. School Integration
  15. Segregation In Education
  16. Violence

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