Title Work

Title No: 3580

Title: Little Rock anti-integration demonstration

Medium: Moving Image

Original Medium: Film

Dates:

24 Sep  1957 (Created)

7 Nov  1985 (Ordered/received)

Little Rock mob demonstration.
Good mob scenes with crowd pushing police line. Police use clubs and carry a man by his arms and legs across the street. A girl resists as police attempt to put her into the police car.

A man is interviewed who says that he came from a long way to see that Negros didn't get into the school and that many others did also. Shots of groups of police.

From Story card.

Countries of Origin: U.S.A.

Duration: 2 min 24 sec 

Forms: Stock shot

Genres:

Subjects: Little Rock (Ark.)--Race relations; Passive resistance; Civil rights demonstrations--Arkansas--Little rock; Discrimination against African Americans--Arkansas--Little Rock; Resisting an officer--Arkansas--Llittle Rock; Discrimination in education--Arkansas--Little Rock

Some abrasions and scratches on original. Choppy. Good sound, however.