WUSTL Film and Media Archive

Title Work

Title No: 3736

Title: Governor Orval Faubus addresses 1959 private white high school graduation

Medium: Moving Image

Original Medium: Film

Dates:

27 Jun 1959 (Created)

7 Nov 1985 (Compiled)

Original Summary:

Footage of a Little Rock, AR private white high school graduation exercises, at which Governor Faubus is the speaker.  Boys and girls in mortar boards gather before the exercises.  Gov. Faubus speaks, says US Supreme Court is now the US Supreme School Board, used theories of sociology, not laws or amendments and refers to 14th Amendment passed at bayonet point during the first occupation of the South.

Countries of Origin: U.S.A.

Duration: 1 min 45 sec

Forms: Stock shot

Genres:

Subjects: Little Rock (Ark.)--Race relations; Segregation in education--Arkansas--Little Rock

Name As Subjects: Faubus, Orval Eugene

Credits:

	Role	Name
	Source of Material	BBC Worldwide Americas, Inc.
	Copyright Claimant	BBC Worldwide Americas, Inc.
	Compiler	Blackside, Inc.
	Creator	CBS News
	Speaker	Faubus, Orval Eugene

Notes:

Sound is poor

Items ^x2

	Item	Description
	3736-1	Safety Film : Positive picture
	3736-2	Safety Film : Sprocketed Magnetic Film

Contained By ^x1

	Title No	Title
	13026	Eyes on the prize [stock footage]