Integration Report 1

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16mm black and white film (a) about marches, protests, and events during the Civil Rights Movement around 1960. The film opens in Montgomery, Alabama with accompanying music and voiceover narration. The footage documents demonstrators marching to the steps of the city municipal building in support of demonstrators participating in lunch counter sit-ins. There are also police officers and white citizens of Montgomery present. The police officers begin pushing the demonstrators up the stairs. The next scene is of Monroe, North Carolina, and shows Robert Williams talking to a group of people about violence committed against blacks by whites and the difficulty involved in pursuing charges in those cases. Williams advocates meeting violence with violence. The next scene shows Thomas R. Jones speaking to an audience in Brooklyn, New York, about the killing of Al Garrett by a police officer while he was in custody at a Brooklyn police station.

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