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

Description

In this series of WSB-TV newsfilm clips from Sea Island, Georgia on September 23, 1957, Florida Governor LeRoy Collins calls for the improvement of Negroes' economic situation as a key to desegregation. The clips begin in the middle of Collins' speech and continues.Collins: "Then I assume it matters not from whence such a man comes, and finally I believe the South is fully capable of..."Then the clip zooms in on Collins and he continues:"In the first place, the racial problem is not by any means altogether a Southern one. It is national in scope. It stirs the good and [unintelligible] bad in people in Chicago, just as it does in Tallahassee. The whole country--north, south, east, and west--is anxiously looking for honorable and peaceful solutions. It is, of course, an economic problem as well as an ethnic one. Negroes throughout the nation are still badly in need of better homes, better health, better schools, and better employment opportunities."Here the clip zooms out and Collins continues:"Improvement does not depend upon an immediate end to segregation throughout America. This has been proved in the South in many ways over the years. But an end to segregation anywhere will continue to be dependent largely upon bettering the living standards of Negro people. And these improvements simply cannot be brought about in an atmosphere of racial furor."Supporting information was taken from the following source: Bates, William M. "13 Dixie Governors Meeting at Sea Island." The Atlanta Constitution 22 September 1957. 1. Web.Title supplied by...

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Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection

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Digital Library of Georgia