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[News Clip: Interracial committee]

Description: Video footage 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
Duration: 1 minute 06 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Colonial golf]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV television station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story about the Annual National Invitation Golf Tournament held at the Colonial Country Club in Fort Worth, Texas.
Date: May 4, 1964
Duration: 1 minute 45 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Beaumont exporters]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about Beaumont's baseball team, the Exporters, beginning their spring training.
Date: March 12, 1953
Duration: 1 minute 22 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: New Racial Strife in Fort Worth ; Mansfield]

Description: 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.
Date: September 2, 1956
Duration: 3 minutes 50 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Ft. Woth City Council ; No Negroes Enroll at Wichita Falls]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany two news stories. The first is 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. Second is a story about the lack of enrollment of African American students in Wichita Fall's schools, despite the recent integration of the school system.
Date: September 5, 1956
Duration: 4 minutes 12 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Negro council candidate]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about Almita S. Robinson, the third African American ever to file for a place on the Fort Worth city council.
Date: March 4, 1957
Duration: 1 minute 25 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Greenway Park Hearing]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany 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
Duration: 1 minute 19 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Teenagers Ambush Negro]

Description: Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story about an African American man being ambushed and threatened by a group of white teenagers.
Date: September 4, 1956
Duration: 1 minute
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Council]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about a Fort Worth city council meeting where they discussed a new children's center for neglected boys and building a swimming pool for the African American community.
Date: April 17, 1957
Duration: 1 minute 12 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: UTA fuss]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a story about Frank Harrison, President of the University of Texas at Arlington, reading a prepared statement in response to the demands made by African American students.
Date: March 24, 1969, 12:00 p.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 38 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Morningside fight]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a story about a meeting of the Fort Worth School Board to discuss opposition to the construction of a new high school in the predominantly African American neighborhood of Morningside. The local chapter of the NAACP says it will file a suit against the school board charging segregation if the school is built.
Date: March 19, 1969
Duration: 1 minute 16 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Negro killed]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about an African-American man being shot by a Fort Worth Police Officer.
Date: March 6, 1958
Duration: 46 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Church taken over by Civic League]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a disputed church in the Morningside neighborhood of Fort Worth. The Southeast Side Civic League bought back a church which was purchased by an African American congregation.
Date: October 19, 1956
Duration: 1 minute 06 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Negro deal in Morningside]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about continued protests in the Morningside neighborhood of Fort Worth. An African American congregation recently purchased a previously white church, and residents protest the arrival of non-whites in their neighborhood.
Date: October 10, 1956
Duration: 1 minute 14 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Location: 32.719925 -97.318396
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Bar to admit negroes]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about the Fort Worth-Tarrant County Bar Association voting to allow African-American lawyers admittance to the organization.
Date: January 3, 1964
Duration: 1 minute 26 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: High school]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a story about a disagreement between residents of the Morningside area of Fort Worth and the local chapter of the NAACP concerning the construction of a new high school in the area. This story includes an interview with NAACP Attorney Clifford Davis who opposes the construction of the school because he feels it will perpetuate segregated education and lower quality educational facilities for African American communities in… more
Date: March 14, 1969
Duration: 47 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Rescue]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a search team looking for an African American boy who jumped over the Belknap street bridge railing in Fort Worth.
Date: July 8, 1956
Duration: 1 minute 12 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Negroes attempt to enter school]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about African American parents attempting to enroll their children in a white school.
Date: September 6, 1954
Duration: 1 minute 47 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Mansfield negroes lose court verdict]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about three African-American students being denied an injunction to end segregation in their school district.
Date: November 7, 1955
Duration: 1 minute 23 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Morningside]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a story by news reporter Lowell Duncan about a disagreement between residents of the Morningside area of Fort Worth and the local chapter of the NAACP concerning the construction of a new high school in the area. In this story, Reverend Milford Kelly discusses his support for the project. Attorney Clifford Davis expresses his opinion about how a school built in this African American community will continue a history of seg… more
Date: March 14, 1969
Duration: 2 minutes 41 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Grand jury sworn in after delay]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the swearing in of a new Tarrant county grand jury. The jury found itself one person short of twelve jurors, the required number, but another juror was quickly found. One woman on the jury, Mrs. Vada P. Felder, is the first African American woman to serve on a grand jury in Tarrant county.
Date: October 5, 1956
Duration: 1 minute 24 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Council okays a lake park]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about the Fort Worth city council approving an agreement with the U.S. Corps of Engineers to lease a 55-acre tract in a public park and a following hearing of an African American group advocating for more "Negro Parks".
Date: January 3, 1958
Duration: 1 minute 58 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Demos ; NAACP Attorney Protests Violence]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany two news stories. The first is about the state Democratic party's resolution to urge the upcoming state convention to put anti-integration proposals into effect. Second is a 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
Duration: 5 minutes 31 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Negro Agrees to Sell Judkins House ; Muscles]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany two news stories. The first is 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. Following that is a story about the Labor Day Muscle and Beauty Contest i… more
Date: September 3, 1956
Duration: 3 minutes 16 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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