Civil rights demonstrations

  • The demonstrations (Episode 3 of 5)

    The third in a series of five parts produced in 1965 by Marcia Tompkins, about her hometown of Tuscaloosa, Alabama. This program concerns civil rights demonstrations in Tuscaloosa. This series was lightly edited and re-broadcast in July and August 1970 (according to folio) for comparison with her new series (upcoming in September 1970, according to…

  • Introduction to the Garner case (Episode 2, Part 1 of 3)

    This recording features Harry Kalven, Jr., of the University of Chicago Law School, and a panel of other speakers in the first of three discussions of Garner vs. Louisiana, in which the Supreme Court reversed the conviction of sit-in demonstrators for disturbing the peace. The program was recorded at a conference at the Center for…

  • The San Francisco human rights march

    This is a recording of the speeches given at a rally of 35,000 people at the Republican National Convention in San Francisco, July 12, 1964. The day before the opening of the Republican National Convention, 35,000 people marched up Market Street in San Francisco and held a mass rally in Civic Center. The purpose of…

  • The Garner case (Episode 4, Part 3 of 3)

    This is the third and concluding episode on the Garner vs. Louisiana case, and the fourth of 13 episodes of the Law and Society series, produced by Florence Mischel from an extensive study conducted in the summer of 1963 at the Conference of law, jurisprudence, and the Bill of Rights, held at the Center for…

  • The sit-ins and the New South

    Priscilla Stephens, winner of the Gandhi Award from the National Congress of Racial Equality gives a first-hand account of the student protests in Florida, speaking under the auspices of SLATE at University of California. Stephens speaks to the audience about testing bus lines for civil rights in the South, sit-ins, freedom rides, and other nonviolent…

  • Lunch counters and jails

    W. H. Larkin, a member of the Congress of Racial Equality discusses the reasons for and techniques utilized in the Civil Rights Movement in this interview by Elsa Knight Thompson. Larkin recounts his experiences in the sit-ins at Tallahassee, Florida lunch counters, arrests, and the ensuing trial and prison time, as well as a march…