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[News Script: Mansfield Continues to Defy Court Order]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Mansfield high school's resistance toward a court order for integration, and the community's prevention of any African American students attempting to register.
Date: August 31, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: NAACP Attorney Protests Violence]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about U. Simpson Tate's telegrams, from Dallas, Texas, to Governor Shivers and President Eisenhower, calling for help in getting African American students safely into Texarkana Junior College.
Date: September 10, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Mansfield School Opens]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the failure of a court order in forcing Mansfield high school to admit African American students, and the demonstrations at the school by both those supporting and those opposing the court order.
Date: September 4, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: NAACP Ouster Suit is Heard at Tyler]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about hearing proceedings at a court in Tyler, Texas, in which the state of Texas seeks a permanent injunction barring the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People from operating.
Date: September 28, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Dallas Schools to Remain Segregated]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Dallas schools remaining segregated during the coming school year. Judge William Atwell declined to set a hearing until September 10th, while schools opened September 5th.
Date: August 22, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: NAACP Hints Suit to End Segregation]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the possibility of the NAACP filing suit against the Fort Worth Board of Education following the board's decision to maintain segregation.
Date: August 9, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: The Week in Review]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering the weekly news report about the NAACP, visiting senators, bank refund, a gas explosion killing two in Southmayd, Texas, court cases, a man murdered by a 14 year old, and two plane accidents.
Date: October 27, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Young Demos]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the Young Democratic Club in Dallas. They have announced their support of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
Date: October 18, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: NAACP]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a court battle between the NAACP and the Dallas school system. Dallas does not want their schools to be integrated. A separate suit may be filed, because evidence that some children involved in NAACP testimonies did not have proper parental permission has been uncovered.
Date: October 1, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: NAACP]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a trial in Tyler, which will decide the fate of the NAACP in Texas. The state asks for a temporary restraining order against the organization, which would freeze their operations until issues are settled in court.
Date: October 23, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Integration Deposition]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the beginning of testimonies by parents of twenty-four negro children who attempted to enroll in all-white Dallas schools last year. The integration case is scheduled for trial on November 13.
Date: November 1, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Pools]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the Fort Worth City Recreation Board studying, but not acting on, a petition to desegregate city-owned parks and pools.
Date: May 10, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Gus Courts]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about civil rights figure Gus Courts arriving in Dallas after leaving his Mississippi home due to racial violence.
Date: March 28, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: NAACP]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about an appearance by Roy Wilkins, executive secretary of the NAACP, at the Good Street Baptist Church in Dallas.
Date: January 8, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Pools]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV television station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story about the Fort Worth City Recreation Board studying, but not acting on, a petition to desegregate city-owned parks and pools.
Date: May 10, 1956, 10:00 p.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 48 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
captions transcript

[News Clip: Fort Worth pools to be opened Saturday]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV television station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story about the Fort Worth recreation board turning down a request by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People to racially integrate pool facilities in the city.
Date: May 31, 1956
Duration: 2 minutes 28 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Demos ; NAACP Attorney Protests Violence]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany two news stories. The first is about the state Democratic party's resolution to urge the upcoming state convention to put anti-integration proposals into effect. Second is a story about U. Simpson Tate's telegrams, from Dallas, Texas, to Governor Shivers and President Eisenhower, calling for help in getting African American students safely into Texarkana Junior College.
Date: September 10, 1956
Duration: 5 minutes 31 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
captions transcript

[News Clip: Gus Courts]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about civil rights figure Gus Courts arriving in Dallas after leaving his Mississippi home due to racial violence.
Date: March 28, 1956
Duration: 3 minutes 34 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Reverend Abernathy]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about one of the leaders of an African American bus protest in Montgomery, Alabama coming to Dallas to give a talk to the Dallas branch of the NAACP.
Date: April 6, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: NAACP Hints Suit to End Segregation ; Gunsmith ; Como]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany three news stories. The first is about the possibility of the NAACP filing suit against the Fort Worth Board of Education follow the board's decision to maintain segregation. The second is a news story about Scotty MacKenzie, an itinerant gunsmith. The last story in this clip is about Perry Como visiting the Dallas-Fort Worth area while on vacation.
Date: August 9, 1956
Duration: 3 minutes
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Probe of NAACP in Dallas Coninues ; Magnolia ; Zonta ; Mrs. American Opens Building Project ; Yom Kippur ; Football Luncheon]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany six news stories. The first story is about an ongoing investigation into the NAACP's regional office in Dallas to determine if the organization was complying with tax laws, as well as other laws governing corporate political activities. Second is a story about the groundbreaking for an oil-field research building in Duncanville. The third segment covers Babe Zaharias, a woman athlete, receiving the World's Outstanding Spo… more
Date: September 14, 1956
Duration: 7 minutes 25 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Mansfield]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a meeting in the Tarrant County Court House after violence broke out over school desegregation in Mansfield.
Date: September 17, 1956
Duration: 1 minute 20 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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