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[News Script: Pickets still out at disputed church]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about continuing protests in the Morningside neighborhood of Fort Worth. An African American congregation recently purchased a formerly white church, and the Southeast Side Civic League is raising money to take back the property.
Date: October 9, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Negro Student is "Happy at NTSC"]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Mrs. Irma E. L. Sephas, the first negro undergraduate at North Texas State College in Denton. She has found the North Texas community unusually helpful and welcoming during her first week of classes.
Date: February 9, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Two Negroes Are Held in Robbery Slaying]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story about John Henry Conner and Richard Gibson, who are arrested and charged for the robbery and beating death of Bradley Miles Padgett. The footage shows the suspects being books, and acting out their crime at the scene with police on hand. Title from script.
Date: February 9, 1956
Duration: 1 minute 48 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Irma E.L. Sephas at NTSC]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story about Irma E.L. Sephas, the first African American student to attend North Texas State College. Footage shows Mrs. Sephas on campus. She is interviewed about her experience at the school. At the end of the film, President James Carl “J. C.” Matthews is shown seated at a desk. Video begins without sound but there is audio starting in the middle of the clip.
Date: February 9, 1956
Duration: 2 minutes 14 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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