[News Clip: New Racial Strife in Fort Worth ; Mansfield]

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Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany two news stories. The first is about protests and demonstrations against an African American family who recently moved onto an all-white street in a racially mixed neighborhood. Second is a story about U.S. Supreme Court Justice Minton granting Mansfield high school the opportunity to delay a court order requiring the school to admit African American students.

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1 film (3 min., 46 sec.) : si., b&w ; 16 mm.

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WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.) September 2, 1956.

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  • Main Title: [News Clip: New Racial Strife in Fort Worth ; Mansfield]
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Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany two news stories. The first is about protests and demonstrations against an African American family who recently moved onto an all-white street in a racially mixed neighborhood. Second is a story about U.S. Supreme Court Justice Minton granting Mansfield high school the opportunity to delay a court order requiring the school to admit African American students.

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1 film (3 min., 46 sec.) : si., b&w ; 16 mm.

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  • Preferred Citation: NBC 5/KXAS Television News Collection (AR0776), University of North Texas Special Collections

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[News Script: New Racial Strife in Fort Worth] (Script)

[News Script: New Racial Strife in Fort Worth]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about protests and demonstrations against an African American family who recently moved onto an all-white street in a racially mixed neighborhood.

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[News Script: New Racial Strife in Fort Worth], ark:/67531/metadc306385/

[News Script: Mansfield] (Script)

[News Script: Mansfield]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about U.S. Supreme Court Justice Minton granting Mansfield high school the opportunity to delay a court order requiring the school to admit African American students.

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[News Script: Mansfield], ark:/67531/metadc306291/

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  • September 2, 1956

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WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.). [News Clip: New Racial Strife in Fort Worth ; Mansfield], video, September 2, 1956; Fort Worth, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc307692/: accessed June 19, 2025), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.

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