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[News Script: Talmadge defends school segregation]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about former governor of Georgia and outspoken white supremacist Herman Talmadge visiting Dallas and speaking out in favor of segregation.
Date: March 30, 1955
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Negroes ask strict enforcement of laws]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about negro leaders in Dallas petitioning local police to increase enforcement efforts against black-on-black crime in the city, saying that officers and newspapers only occupy themselves with black-on-white crimes.
Date: January 21, 1955
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Cinerama picketed]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Dallas' Melba Theatre being picketed by the NAACP, protesting segregation in the wake of the theatre's first "all-Negro" showing of Cinerama.
Date: March 11, 1955
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Integration]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the NAACP meeting with the Board of Education to discuss ending segregation in schools.
Date: July 13, 1955
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Negro sues Decker, others]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about an African-American man, Jackson Davis, suing Dallas county sheriff Bill Decker, two of his deputies, and a Dallas County cotton broker for allegedly stealing money from him and wrongfully imprisoning him.
Date: October 14, 1955
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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