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[News Script: Greenway Park hearing]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a proposed gravel mine near Greenway Park, an African American neighborhood. The "Greenway Citizens League" is against the project.
Date: August 23, 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: New Racial Strife in Fort Worth]

Description: 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.
Date: September 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: Mansfield School Opens]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the failure of a court order in forcing Mansfield high school to admit African American students, and the demonstrations at the school by both those supporting and those opposing the court order.
Date: September 4, 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: Mansfield is Quiet After Demonstration]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the admittance of African American students into schools in Mansfield and the angry demonstrations on school registration day by those opposed to the court order.
Date: August 30, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Teenagers ambush negro]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about an African American man being ambushed and threatened by a group of white teenagers.
Date: September 4, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Mansfield]

Description: 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.
Date: September 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: 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: Negroes, etc.]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about protests in the Morningside section of Fort Worth. Whites worry about the encroachment of African Americans into their neighborhoods. Signs which read "This property is not for sale to Negroes" are placed in front of buildings.
Date: October 7, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Cop disarmed]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a search for a negro in Dallas. Police say the man disarmed policeman M. P. Southall.
Date: November 30, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[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.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Negro Youth Shot]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about seventeen-year-old Robert Thomas Junior, an African American boy who shot as he walk walking home. He says a group of white teenagers were behind the shooting.
Date: 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Cave In]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a limestone cave-in, which leaves Arzetta Conger and Walter Hubbard trapped. The two negro workers were completing a sewer line project.
Date: November 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: Six workers hurt in gasoline blast]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about an explosion, caused by an open pan of gasoline, sending six negro employees at the Texcrete company in Fort Worth to the hospital.
Date: February 14, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Louisiana Law may Upset Texas League]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the Texas League President Dick Butler pushing to stop a Louisiana law that would prevent Texas teams with black players from traveling to Shreveport for games. The law was passed through the house and will presented before the senate, butler will attend this meeting as well.
Date: June 20, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Miramar May be Sold to Negroes]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the S. S. Mirimar, which is up for sale in Highland Park, after a lengthy court battle concerning its custody. Also for sale is the home of Doctor and Mrs. F. H. Newton, in which the yacht is stored.
Date: January 23, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Negroes Sentenced in Robbery, Slaying]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about two Negro ex-convicts, John Henry Conner and Richard Gibson, receiving life sentences for the robbery and beating death of Bradley Mills Padgett.
Date: February 27, 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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