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[News Clip: Clement Tells of Clinton Violence ; Mansfield ; Catholics]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany three news stories. The first is about Tennessee Governor Clement's actions to stop violence in Clinton, Tennessee over school integration. Second is a story about Mansfield's dedication of a new city hall. The final segment covers four Fort Worth Catholics being honored by Pope Pius the 12th.
Date: September 16, 1956
Duration: 3 minutes 19 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Demos]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the state Democratic party's resolution to urge the upcoming state convention to put anti-integration proposals into effect.
Date: September 10, 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: NAACP to Fight Restraining Order]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the NAACP's decision to fight a restraining order, which bars the organization from doing business in Texas.
Date: September 23, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Ft. Worth City Council]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the Fort Worth city council's decision regarding giving continued police protection to an African American family who moved into a home on an all-white street.
Date: September 5, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Curry]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Wanda Joy Curry, who claims she was fired from her job at Lone Star Gas Company for refusing to support the United Fund.
Date: September 27, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Dummy Hanging at Mansfield Probed]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the hanging of a red paint splattered, straw-stuffed dummy in effigy of an African American man in Mansfield, Texas, in response to the federal desegregation order demanding Mansfield admit thirteen African American students to its high school.
Date: August 29, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Interracial Committee]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the first meeting of Mayor Garrison's ten-man interracial committee in Fort Worth, as well as criticism from the city's Riverside neighborhoods.
Date: September 18, 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
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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
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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: Ft. Woth City Council ; No Negroes Enroll at Wichita Falls]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany two news stories. The first is about the Fort Worth city council's decision regarding giving continued police protection to an African American family who moved into a home on an all-white street. Second is a story about the lack of enrollment of African American students in Wichita Fall's schools, despite the recent integration of the school system.
Date: September 5, 1956
Duration: 4 minutes 12 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Dallas Schools to Remain Segregated]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany 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
Duration: 3 minutes 15 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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