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[News Script: NAACP Attorney Protests Violence]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about U. Simpson Tate's telegrams, from Dallas, Texas, to Governor Shivers and President Eisenhower, calling for help in getting African American students safely into Texarkana Junior College.
Date: September 10, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Negro Agrees to Sell Judkins House]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about African American man Lloyd G. Austin moving into the all-white block of Judkins street in Fort Worth, Texas. After a day of demonstration and a night of violence protesting, Austin agreed to sell the Judkins home and move into an all-black area; however, when given the sales papers, Austin declined to sign them.
Date: September 3, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Racial Committee Announced by Mayor]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a ten-member interracial committee in Fort Worth established to settle the community's race problems, as well as the city's firemen losing a battle for a reduced work week.
Date: September 12, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Ft. Worth City Council]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the Fort Worth city council's decision regarding giving continued police protection to an African American family who moved into a home on an all-white street.
Date: September 5, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Carlton]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a mandamus suit to force the Dallas Transit company to bring back segregated seating.
Date: September 25, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Interracial Committee]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the first meeting of Mayor Garrison's ten-man interracial committee in Fort Worth, as well as criticism from the city's Riverside neighborhoods.
Date: September 18, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: NAACP Ouster Suit is Heard at Tyler]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about hearing proceedings at a court in Tyler, Texas, in which the state of Texas seeks a permanent injunction barring the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People from operating.
Date: September 28, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Dallas Schools to Remain Segregated]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Dallas schools remaining segregated during the coming school year. Judge William Atwell declined to set a hearing until September 10th, while schools opened September 5th.
Date: August 22, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: NAACP Hints Suit to End Segregation]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the possibility of the NAACP filing suit against the Fort Worth Board of Education following the board's decision to maintain segregation.
Date: August 9, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Dallas Council]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a Dallas city council meeting. A policy that only allows lawn watering between 8 p.m. and 8 a.m. is adopted. Mrs. Addie B. Frazier also demands city buses force segregation of whites and blacks.
Date: July 2, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Buses]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the desegregation of Dallas city buses after a Supreme Court ruling.
Date: April 25, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Congressmen]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Mississippi congressman John Bell Williams, Georgia congressman John J. Flint, Jr, Mississippi Senator James Eastland, and other segregation leaders meeting in Fort Worth to speak against desegregation.
Date: March 15, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Pools]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the Fort Worth City Recreation Board studying, but not acting on, a petition to desegregate city-owned parks and pools.
Date: May 10, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Segregated pools open; no incident]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about opening day for swimming pools in Fort Worth, with no incidents reported regarding the city's decision to keep the facilities racially segregated.
Date: June 3, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Fort Worth pools to be opened Saturday]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the Fort Worth recreation board turning down a request by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People to racially integrate pool facilities in the city.
Date: May 31, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Gus Courts]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about civil rights figure Gus Courts arriving in Dallas after leaving his Mississippi home due to racial violence.
Date: March 28, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Autherine in Dallas to plan wedding]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a visit to Dallas by Autherine Lucy, the first black woman accepted at the University of Alabama. Lucy is in town to plan her upcoming wedding.
Date: March 22, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Buses]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Dallas and Fort Worth continuing to segregate buses as usual despite the recent Supreme Court ruling which outlawed racial segregation on city buses.
Date: April 24, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Pools ready for big splash tomorrow]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Fort Worth's six municipal pools preparing for the start of swimming season, which officially begins after the city's board of recreation denies a negro petition for the abolishment of racial segregation at the facilities.
Date: June 1, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: NAACP]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about an appearance by Roy Wilkins, executive secretary of the NAACP, at the Good Street Baptist Church in Dallas.
Date: January 8, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Pools]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV television station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story about the Fort Worth City Recreation Board studying, but not acting on, a petition to desegregate city-owned parks and pools.
Date: May 10, 1956, 10:00 p.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 48 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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