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Series of WSB-TV newsfilm clips of comments regarding integration of education in Georgia by Board of Regents member Roy V. Harris and House of Representatives members Frank Twitty and A'Delbert Bowen in Atlanta, Georgia, 1961 January

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This series of WSB-TV newsfilm clips from Atlanta, Georgia in January 1961 contains selections of comments regarding integration of education in Georgia made by Board of Regents member Roy V. Harris to the House Education Committee, and selections of comments made to the committee and later to the full House of Representatives by Representatives Frank Twitty of Mitchell County and A'Delbert Bowen of Randolph County.The clip begins with representative Frank Twitty speaking to the House Education Committee. His comments are interspersed with those made by Roy V. Harris. Twitty explains that Georgia Governor Ernest Vandiver is proposing a package plan of legislation to oppose the most recent court decision for integration. Bill co-sponsor Twitty refers to the plan as "about the only thing left that we can fight with." Part of the plan Twitty outlines decentralizes the school board system, giving more authority back to local boards and allowing them to better counteract attacks on segregation. HB174 is "A Bill to be entitled an Act to provide for suspension and reopening of public schools; to provide for the call of an election on said issue; to prescribe the procedure relating thereto; to provide that teachers' and other contracts shall not be effected by such suspension but that the compensation thereunder shall continue under specified terms; and for other purposes." Twitty reminds the committee that governor Vandiver is pledging to support public education. He expresses his gratitude for the strength of character of members of the general assembly during the most...
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Contributors:
Harris, Roy Vincent, 1895-1985Twitty, Frank Starling, 1907-1981Bowen, A'Delbert, 1919-1981
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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 College Students
  2. African Americans
  3. Arkansas
  4. Athens
  5. Attitudes
  6. College Integration
  7. College Students
  8. Georgia
  9. Government
  10. Government, Resistance To
  11. Legislators
  12. Little Rock
  13. Louisiana
  14. Massive Resistance Movement
  15. New Orleans
  16. Public Opinion
  17. School Boards
  18. School Integration
  19. Segregation In Education

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