- Collection:
- WSB-TV Newsfilm Collection
- Title:
- Series of WSB-TV newsfilm clips of civil rights leaders Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Ralph D. Abernathy meeting with vice president Richard M. Nixon and Secretary of Labor James P. Mitchell, Washington, D.C., 1957 June 13
- Creator:
- WSB-TV (Television station : Atlanta, Ga.)
- Date of Original:
- 1957-06-13
- Subject:
- Reporters and reporting--Washington (D.C.)
Interviews--Washington (D.C.)
Civil rights movements--United States
Civil rights workers--United States
African American civil rights workers
Camera operators--Washington (D.C.)
United States. Civil Rights Act of 1957
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968--Interviews
Mitchell, James P., 1900-1964
Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David), 1890-1969 - People:
- Abernathy, Ralph, 1926-1990
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968 - Location:
- United States, District of Columbia, Washington, 38.89511, -77.03637
- Medium:
- news
unedited footage - Type:
- Moving Image
- Format:
- video/mp4
- Description:
- In this series of WSB-TV newsfilm clips from Washington, D.C. on June 13, 1957, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Reverend Ralph D. Abernathy meet with vice president Richard M. Nixon and Secretary of Labor James P. Mitchell, and afterwards King answers reporters' questions about the visit. The clip begins with King, Abernathy, and an unidentified African American man shaking hands with Nixon and Mitchell. In another room, reporters sit down, and King answers their questions. King states his belief that president Eisenhower, could do more to support and to promote civil rights than he has done. The clip breaks and records a portion of a reporter's question about a civil rights bill in Congress. King reports that during the meeting Nixon indicated Republican support for the civil rights bill under consideration in Congress. The clip ends with cameramen filming King sitting at a table. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. had sought to meet with members of the presidential administration to promote civil rights for several months. After meeting Richard M. Nixon in Ghana during a celebration of the country's independence in March of 1957, King was able to arrange a meeting with Nixon and then later with president Eisenhower. Eisenhower introduced civil rights legislation in the Congress that was later passed as the Civil Rights Act of 1957, the first civil rights legislation since Reconstruction.
IMLS Grant, 2008.
Digibeta Center Cut (4 x 3) downconvert from HDD5 1080/23.98PsF film transfer.
Title supplied by cataloger. - External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/news/id:wsbn35160
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/news/id:wsbn35160
- IIIF manifest:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/ugabma_wsbn_wsbn35160/presentation/manifest.json
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: wsbn35160, Series of WSB-TV newsfilm clips of civil rights leaders Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Ralph D. Abernathy meeting with vice president Richard M. Nixon and Secretary of Labor James P. Mitchell, Washington, D.C., 1957 June 13, WSB-TV newsfilm collection, reel 0779, 58:20/59:23, Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection, The University of Georgia Libraries, Athens, Ga
- Extent:
- 1 clip (about 1 min.): black-and-white, sound ; 16 mm.
- Original Collection:
- Original found in the WSB-TV newsfilm collection.
- Holding Institution:
- Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection
- Rights:
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