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WSB-TV newsfilm clip of a demonstration against the Vietnam War commemorating Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assassination, Atlanta, Georgia, 1969 April 6

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

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In this WSB newsfilm clip from Atlanta, Georgia, dated April 4, 1969, demonstrators protest the Vietnam War on the one-year anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assassination; King is also memorialized in a video montage.The clip is divided into two segments, both containing audio. The first segment opens with a shot of a protest march; a group of mostly white demonstrators make their way down the street, some carry handmade or printed signs. Some of the signs read: "War profit is blood money," "Make his dream a reality end war poverty racism," "Dr. King died April 4, 1968 for all mankind," "Amnesty fOr all war protestors," "Anti-war, pro GI," and "End war now." Audio for the clip consists mostly of background noise until the camera pans left across the parade of demonstrators; the shot ends on a group stalled by a bottleneck in the procession route. At this point, an amplified voice sings "We Shall Overcome," a group of demonstrators shout "Peace now!" and a reporter instructs the sound engineer to keep the microphone on the crowd noise. The next shot in the first segment includes a large gathering of African American and white demonstrators as they listen to a speaker calling for an end to the war in Vietnam. The camera pans across the crowd to the right; the shot then breaks and the camera pans in the opposite direction while the crowd sings "We Shall Overcome." Throughout the crowd, demonstrators hold signs and banners; some raise their...
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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 Churches
  2. African American Civil Rights Workers
  3. African American Clergy
  4. African Americans
  5. Anti War Demonstrations
  6. Assassination
  7. Atlanta
  8. Audio Amplifiers
  9. Banners
  10. Church Buildings
  11. Civil Rights
  12. Civil Rights Demonstrations
  13. Civil Rights Movements
  14. Civil Rights Workers
  15. Clergy
  16. Counterculture
  17. Demonstrations
  18. Discrimination
  19. Draft
  20. Economic Aspects
  21. Epitaphs
  22. Facades
  23. Funeral Rites And Ceremonies
  24. Georgia
  25. Government
  26. Hippies
  27. History
  28. Memorial Rites And Ceremonies
  29. Memorialization
  30. Microphone
  31. Monuments
  32. Pacifists
  33. Peace
  34. Peace Movements
  35. Photographs
  36. Political Activists
  37. Politics And Government
  38. Profiteering
  39. Protest Marches
  40. Protest Movements
  41. Protest Songs
  42. Public Opinion
  43. Race Discrimination
  44. Race Relations
  45. Reporters And Reporting
  46. Signs And Signboards
  47. Singing
  48. Social Conditions
  49. United States
  50. V Symbol
  51. Vietnam War, 1961 1975
  52. War
  53. We Shall Overcome (Song)
  54. Youth

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