Civil Rights footage

CIVIL RIGHTS (1960s & 70s) RELATED FOOTAGE

(see also related lists: Black Panthers; Segregation; Harlem)

CIVIL RIGHTS RELATED, USA 1960s

CL 221379     00:01:08 - 00:10:42            1966   B/W    SD        Troublemakers Pt. 1 of 4
Narration over black explaining Newark Community Union Project, NCUP, project.
00:01:40 Man at desk talking about idealistic movement of students; Black woman talking; other women talking about organizing.
00:02:35 White young man asking: What do you want ot change?” to women & children meeting. Wants a place for teenagers to keep them off the corner. Black teenagers talk about what it should have in it.
00:04:30 Inter-title over freeze-frame: The problems of organizing. Young white man questions how organizers work; others discuss emotional energy re police brutality; rent control. Pan over meeting room or commune w/ people lounging about amid boxes, chairs etc.
00:06:02 Two Black men & boy w/ White organizer on sidewalk in front of small grocery store front. Organizer talking to guy w/ guitar in doorway, others locals listening. CU Black guy: “It’s time the poor man starts doing something for himself.” Others talk about needing to shoveling snow; need to get new politicians; arguing about what it takes to get off unemployment; why the system isn’t working. Need for unity.
00:09:56 White organizer walks into courtyard of old apartment building, washing on line & women & children talking. W/ Black organizers in & out of doorways; pass out leaflets. On sidewalk putting up Sherman Avenue Meeting poster next to Freedom Now poster.
Ethnic; African-Americans; Poverty; 1960s; Alternative Culture; Radicalization; Newsreel Films; New Jersey; 1966; Student Involvement; Negroes; Blacks; Counter Culture; Slums; Ghetto; Politics;

CL 221379     00:10:42 - 00:24:10            1966   B/W    SD        Troublemakers Pt.. 2 of 4
Int. meeting of older people led by Newark Community Union Project, NCUP, project. Man talking about being mad because of the situation “the rich man controls...and there is 52% negro & 90% are poor.” “Its time we do something...”   Projector set up in room w/ screen.
00:12:27 Narrator voice over about first meetings releasing anger & frustration. MCUs & CUs of people thoughtfully listening to previous Black speaker. “If that anger is not focussed on an action, meeting become repetitious; nothing is decided, people get discouraged & stop coming.”
00:12:56 Inner-title over freeze frame: 2) Issue organizing - housing. Local woman speaking; organizers speaking about housing violations & rent control; cost of rent and refusal of landlords to make basic repairs.
00:14:11 Older man & woman & younger white woman organizer leaving to go ask help from local Human Rights Commission. Older couple, Mr ? & Mrs. Gaskins walking up steps of large city government building w/ ornate stonework. Black couple explain things needing repair.
00:15:41 Couple going back into house.
00:16:08 CU Mrs. Gaskins telling NCUP of receiving letter of eviction after Housing Authorities inspected & sent landlord a letter; explains problems w/ apartment laughing over it. MCU pensive.
00:17:23 NCUP members smoking cigarettes, waiting for monthly PAG meeting (Peoples Action Group, local War On Poverty group) & discuss how to see if they will help stop Mrs. Gaskin eviction, though the building has over 101 violations. NCUP back to Mrs Gaskin to ask her to appear before PAG.
00:19:52 Mrs. Gaskin speaks to PAG & asks group for help. Others talk about what to do & how to help. Woman in same building gives empassioned speech in support & calling for rent strike.
00:23:14 PAG picketing w/ placards & signs landlord, Phil Kaufman’s residential house as a symbolic effort; leaflet to passing car. Marchers end w/ freeze frame of Mrs. Gaskin on picket line.
Ethnic; African-Americans; Poverty; 1960s; Alternative Culture; Radicalization; Newsreel Films; New Jersey; 1966; Student Involvement; Negroes; Blacks; Counter Culture; Slums; Ghetto; Politics;

CL 221379     00:24:10 - 00:41:20            1966   B/W    SD        Troublemakers Pt.. 3 of 4
Inner-title over freeze frame: 3) Issue organizing - traffic light.
Woman in MCU tells of son being killed last year; wants a traffic light, breaks into tears. Kids talk about need for traffic light. Intersection sit-in seen from above, man blocking bus; line of men blocking traffic & cops arriving. Black policeman directing traffic; men causing cars to stop. Black man tells young white organizer “you can’t scare the police.” Black asks him if he knows anything about philosphy, “do you know Plato’s statement? “The seed of a rising nation is in the blood of a mortal.” He says he didn’t come out to block traffic as it wasn’t worth going to jail. He decides he’ll go to jail w/ others; they decide on Monday. He didn’t show up but others did. Fathers w/ children, people w/ signs seen from above & LS down street.
00:28:31 Precinct Captain explains Deputy Mayor says there will be stop signs put w/in 48 hours while they decide if light is needed. He says he doesn’t handle traffic. But no lights so a month later they demonstrate.
00:29:15 City officials show up & talk, say it is a state problem. Man takes responsibility for getting back in touch w/ community. Official asks for “..patience, give them time.”
00:31:01 Man reports to NCUP as to progress. Black people on curb talking; light has been approved. People on street leaving City Council meeting thinking it would happen as Mayor had said it was approved. City official at desk explaining why it takes time to get traffic light put in & that the state must do it, not the city.
00:33:13 Intersection & street scenes. GOOD
00:33:37 Woman & children outside NCUP office, posters for election campaign.
00:33:55 Inner-title over freeze frame of candidate: 4) Joining a political campaign. United Committee for Political Freedom, a coalition of Negroes, Whites & Puerto Ricans w/ civil rights orientation. NCUP being asked for support in campaign. Describes to camera their grass roots support. Arguing in NCUP whether or not to work w/ political system.
00:35:57 NCUP members talking on behalf of UCPF to Blacks in suits, as they’ve decided to support their campaign. NCUP members on street leafletting, political signs. CUs & LS at UCPF dance, drinking beer, dancing, talking. Small meeting w/ Candidate Richardson speaking. Street w/ car & loudspeakers on talk calling to vote for United Freedom ticket, moving thru residential neighborhood. Man sorting mailings; men leafletting, women in front of grocery & on street corner handing out information. CU speaker in car into microphone. Organizer: “This is a fight against police brutality; a fight against job discrimination; a fight against half-day school sessions. We’re trying to bring rent control back to the city of Newark.” Others talking about it on sidewalk. Arguing about nature of political parties. GOOD CUs.
Ethnic; African-Americans; Poverty; 1960s; Alternative Culture; Radicalization; Newsreel Films; New Jersey; 1966; Student Involvement; Negroes; Blacks; Counter Culture; Slums; Ghetto; Politics;

CL 221379     00:41:20 - 00:50:07            1966   B/W    SD        Troublemakers Pt.. 4 of 4
NCUP meeting, people sitting, talking & smoking. Discussing nature of 3rd party & effect of this party on basic Democratic Party & their image. Man talks about what Democrats have done; Democrats sound trucks.
00:43:25 Woman leafletting for United Freedom Party; man speaking for it outside polling place.
00:44:25 Man w/ blackboard w/ votes being posted. Richardson up to microphone & acknowledges their loss. Depressed looking organizers talking about the problems of getting involved w/ politics.
00:48:22 Inner-title: 5) A summary. Organizers going into building, walking on sidewalk. Daily life on sidewalk.
00:48:55 People leaving late NCUP meeting; people asleep.
00:49:35 Credits. Camera - Robert Machover; Sound - Norm Fruchter.
Ethnic; African-Americans; Poverty; 1960s; Alternative Culture; Radicalization; Newsreel Films; New Jersey; 1966; Student Involvement; Negroes; Blacks; Counter Culture; Slums; Ghetto; Politics;

CL 221380     02:01:07 - 02:12:03            1967   B/W    SD        Strike City Pt. 1 of 3
Title: The reason we went on strike I was tired of working for six dollars a day & I was tired of my wife & kids working for $3 a day. Pan over foggy morning across barnyard w/ posts, dust.
Main title: Strike City super-imposed Black boy by fire.
02:02:13 Small girl feeding very young boy from baby food bottle. CU feet on wooden flooring beside stove. CU lips cooling cup & drinking. Other children & families in tent heated by stove. People talking about striking. Woman cooking, baby playing. Small boys drinking water from soda pop bottles. Woman cleaning beans.
02:04:09 Man walking w/ axe, cutting wood w/ snow on ground & roofs of large tents behind. VO “Well honey, I’m going to tell you one thing, so help me God I still believe in Christianity, but I don’t want to hear ‘em talkin’ this crap to me about we live in a free country...and still people have to live in tents ‘cause of what they believe.” Int. woman combing child’s hair. CU face. Kid walking & running after geese &/or ducks in farmyard. Young boys up wooden steps into house or juke joint.
02:07:18 Int. w/ kids in front of juke-box. Men beside pinball machine.
02:07:48 Winter fields w/ drifted sand across barren crop rows. Man walking across muddy yard w/ tire tracks. Men sitting inside by wood burning stove; voice over about not wanting to hire anyone this year.
02:09:04 POV moving past end of crop rows w/ water standing. MCU Old men & women sitting as man talking to group about non-profit group they’ve set up to build houses at Strike City. CU of board members; walking & talking about where they are going to put the houses. Men pound stakes, stretch string, surveying. Carpenter cutting stakes. CU plot plan for Strike City. Men digging foundations. Cement mixer truck & pouring concrete, men watching & tamping.
Poverty; Plantation System; Slavery; 1960s; 1967; Unemployment; Farmworkers;
Note: No music rights; must be cleared if used.

CL 221380     02:12:03 - 02:24:48            1967   B/W    SD        Strike City Pt. 2 of 3
Close blowing in wind; tent canvas flapping; ppeople walking outside tents; cement truck leaving. Kids playing. Boys pump water w/ hand-pump into buckets & carry to tent. Woman mopping inside of tent; pregnant woman watching.
02:14:09 Men finishing concrete floor w/ motorized paddle. Men walking & talking on floor; men laying concrete block walls; cutting blocks; shoveling concrete. Framing doorways, interior stud walls raised & nailed in place. Kids play on floor w/ blocks.
02:16:34 Men pick up tools & walk to tents. Women sweeping new building; kids play, dance & sing folk songs. Playing games.
02:18:13 Men talking, woman & child; kids play basketball, swing under large old tree. Lighting new stove w/ newspaper from wooden stove. Family eating around table.
02:19:20 Men playing cards. CU smoking, dealing cards. Boy reading book beside table; kids in bed. Folks dancing, clapping. Faces laughing.
02:21:07 Man in chair, family in bed. VO talking about why they went on strike. POV from car past sharecropper shacks. View of large plantation fields as man tells other workers about Strke City meeting.
02:22:31 Man speaking to meeting in new large room, blackboard; faces of listeners. VO about money not coming fast enough from Washington. CU clapping & singing.
Poverty; Plantation System; Slavery; 1960s; 1967; Unemployment; Construction; Farmworkers;
Note: No music rights to radio music. Must be cleared if used.

CL 221380     02:24:48 - 02:32:41            1967   B/W    SD        Strike City Pt. 3 of 3
Black woman & two children arrive at Washington DC government building; walk down large marble hall. Into entrance of large Congressional hearing room. Entering & sitting down. Man testifying.
02:26:30 Adam Clayton Powell standing in front Chairman (?) of hearing. CU man at microphone in hearing room.
02:27:16 Snow outside tent. Photographs of tents. In Lafayette Park w/ Strike City banner; view towards White House from demonstration, pedestrians. Tents & signs; VO as though talking to Pres. Johnson. Press Conference held in front of tents many reporters & cameramen.
02:28:56 Man at microphone, people singing We Shall Overcome behind him w/ arms linked. Saying they’ll come back another day. Moving truck leaving. CU faces, hands in hands, men women & children.
02;30:47 Man silhouetted against tents. Girl & men & women planting seeds in dirt. Hoeing along rows. Watering plants w/ buckets. Tent entrance flap blowing across wooden platform.
Poverty; Plantation System; Slavery; 1960s; 1967; Unemployment; Construction; Farmworkers;
Note: No music rights to radio music. Must be cleared if used.

221353          14:22:41 - 14:33:49            1968   Col       Sd

The President - April 1968 Pt. 3 of 4

INCLUDING:

CU 1968 Civil Rights Act w/ Received date stamp. CU of Black smiling & pan over other Blacks; LBJ at microphone speaking after signing. Talks of the signing of the 1964 Bill (interstate accomodations); of the 1965 Act (voting rights) & now this Fair Housing Bill guarantee being part of the American Way of Life. Picture of Pres. Johnson’s signature on the bill.

14:25:42

X 220487       03:00:57 - 03:10:51            1968               USA      B/W    sd         Columbia

[Revolt - Part 1 of 5]
The Newsreel - Radical Documentary
Shots of Columbia University buildings with pillars, statues, arcades, very grand looking, while narration talks of mighty mission of university to society. Shots become more shaky and narration argues University produces students for corporations and military, over shots exterior modern university buildings. Voice over talks of way land was acquired, trustees all CEO’s of big corporations.
03:05:00 High shot over Columbia university and pan over city.
03:05.23: Black kids look through fence. Sign says building of university gym soon to start, Morningside park where gym to be built is locked off. Local people removed from Morningside park, some sit-in, taken in police van, reporters film. Bulldozers dig park. Voice over woman making radical speech about park.
03:06:18 High shot student demonstration in University campus. Protest including Blacks. Protesters march to library. Stills of police arresting demonstrators and shuffle. Demonstration turns to riot and violence. Group of policeman wave off camera. Demonstrators in street. Voice over demonstrators tells about event.
Student political meeting, CUs of students,black speaker. Voice over explains difference of perspective and tactics between black and white militants.
03.09.45: High angle protest with umbrellas. Police arrive. Black students flood the basement, together with whites, and barricade basement with chairs.
Voice over runs throughout the film: made up of interviews of radical students and militants.

X 220487       03:10:51 - 03:20:44            1968               USA      B/W    sd

Columbia [Revolt - Part 2 of 5]
The Newsreel - Radical Documentary
03:10:51: Black protesters with placards march. Police car, out of focus. Black demonstrators in front of university with speaker talking about treatment of blacks.
03:13:00: White student defence committee sit-in, occupying university boss’ office and going through files. Voice over says they found evidence Blacks and Puerto Ricans would be moved out. They barricade the building with furniture. Mimeograph printing leaflets. Blackboard with messages and communications.
(03:15:02: film stops and starts again - film probably snapped)
Student comes in office through window. Group of students sit on office floor and mope around, argue about politics etc. (no direct sound). Take vote of confidence.
03:16:35; graffiti on wall “Up against the wall, mother”.
Demonstrators sleep on floor of university building and offices. Students demonstrating outside university building, locked-in students stand on building’s windows, then food is distributed. Police arrive. Riots scenes shown with stills. Food is thrown to locked-in students on windows. Professor stands to tell students to stop.
Voice-over says faculty never understood student demands.
03:19:10: Inside university building white student lock-in, food and drink shared.

X 220487      03:20:44 - 03:30:28            1968               USA      B/W    sd

Columbia [Revolt - Part 3 of 5]
The Newsreel - Radical Documentary
03:20:44 Locked-in students dancing in office. It gets dark, they burn pieces of paper. Playing drums. Dancing under s pole. Turns into a big party with people cheering and clapping on staircase.
03:22:07 Girl and boy get married in lock-in, she in makeshift wedding dress and white veil, they say vows and other students cheer.
03:23:06 Riot police with helmets surround university at night. Police chief (?) telling students to leave building through loudspeaker (not sync). Riot police enters building screaming. Stills and moving images show riot police evicting demonstrators, violently. Students dragged down steps. Bleeding students stills. Injured and wounded on floor. Ambulance.
03:26:55 Students march out of university building chanting “We want peace’, making V peace sign, escorted by police. Still bloody-faced student. Shouting ‘We have nothing against the cops”. Demonstrators climb in police van. 03:28:14: still of three hands stick out of police van, nice shot.
03:28:18 Hospital, nurse’s medicine tray. Nurse bandages student’s eye. Bandaged student holds sign ‘Up against the wall m-f”. Still wounded protesters.
03:29:15 Entrance Mathematics building (sign). Police boots and truncheon walk up looted stairs. Destroyed offices, paint on wall, litter on floor. Voice over says damage was caused by police. Police outside university building, voice over talks of inconsistencies in press coverage revealing police interference. Policemen check students I.D. on campus entrance.

X 220487       03:30:28 - 03:40:43            1968               USA      B/W    sd

Columbia [Revolt - Part 4 of 5]
The Newsreel - Radical Documentary
Row of policemen outside campus. Policeman plays with truncheon.
Student performance / demonstration holding signs Mobil, IDA etc., walking with “IDA” and “TPF” helmet and truncheon behaving like apes, imitating police violence whilst student spectators sing / rap slogans.
Faculty members make peace signs, students shout “Strike!” Signs “People power not money power.” Sign above building entrance ‘Avery is on strike”. Voice over speech by strike leader. protesters walk in small circle holding placards. Distributing leaflets. Many protest signs and placards.
Sit-in in front of university with speaker. Placard university chief or dignitary as King in pack of cards, “Strike!”. Denim jacket ‘Up against the wall”.
03:35:06 Band plays, concert with guitar, base, drums. Good high shot.
03:36:37 Giant board game on lawn with dice . Voice over
Message boards ads for liberation classes. Big sign in street ‘ Please strike support liberation classes”. Empty classroom with ‘strike” on blackboard .
03:37:45 Students sitting in small groups on lawn on campus for self-run classes. Voice over says students didn’t want to fit in society anymore.
Buildings returned by students to local community. Crowd of protesters roam streets, high angle. Police walk through. Riot police stand in front of building for more evictions. Arrests, protesters into police van.

X 220487      03:40:43 - 03:48:50            1968               USA      B/W    sd

Columbia [Revolt - Part 5 of 5]
The Newsreel - Radical Documentary
Students occupy university building. Chanting “strike”. Night, outside univ building , riot police stands around. Big crowd of protesters chant “strike”. Police inside buildings. Voice over says it was no use trying to defy police.
Riot police in morning after evictions leave university. US flag on top building.
03.44.32 Police around university on graduation day let students through. graduates in cloak and mortar board. Heavy security, police cars and vans outside campus gates.
03.46.10: Black child punches effigy “Kirk” and “police” in front of church, burn effigy. Demonstration, singing ‘Oh Lord”, Blacks and whites walk through street with balloons and placards. Placard ‘To rebel is justified”. Protesters sit n campus lawn.

220800          22:34:43 - 22:47:38           1968               USA      COL      SIL

White House and Riots in D.C. following assassination of Martin Luther King
South side of White House, fountain in foreground, flag flying at half mast on White House. Various shots White House. Looking up driveway to front of White House. Press setting up lights, cameras and Television cameras near West wing of White House in circular drive.
22:36:14 CU Lush Cherry blossoms and tulips in full bloom.
22:36:35 CU Police, some wearing army helmets, and civilians passing camera
Park policeman in middle of street directing traffic. Riot police standing on sidewalk across street,
22:37:03 MLS Smoke rising from burning buildings in far BG somewhere in Washington, DC during 1968 riots; several small shops seen in FG.
22:37:08 Filmed off television screen - riots and aftermath.
22:39:05 Two firemen standing on fire truck next to smoking building. Firefighting on smoking building Rear view, riot policeman standing on street corner, Black children leaning against lamp post .
22:40:24 CU Save More Supermarket burned out and gutted. Cash register sitting out in street.
S Fire hoses strung across street, policeman wearing gas mask walks past, police car drives around corner. Fire engine with CU red lights spinning.
22:40:46 Interior view, burned out building still smoldering;
22:41:08 Rear view National Guard jeep with patrol aboard moving down street. Nationial Guard jeeps with armed guards in back up and past.
22:41:20 Tall ladder extended from fire truck, two firemen in FG; one man seen hold ing guy line, smoke.
Several National Guardsmen grouped on sidewalk outside Safeway Store. Tracking shot past military vehicles and National Guard marching down street. Tracking shot past buildings, empty street.
22:42:06 Firemen fighting severe blaze inside paint store in shopping district. Second fire truck moving L to R past camera, smoke pours from front of building.
22:42:50 National Guardsman standing in middle of street with rifle. Riot policemen with riot guns standing near group of black people. Good firefighting scenes at various locations.
22:44:38 MS 6X truck loaded with National Guardsmen moving off, burned out buildings seen across street, National Guard ambulance moves and trucks down street. Various shots aftermath of fires, gutted shops and buildings, some still smouldering.
National Guardsmen standing at crossroads. Various shots round streets showing National Guard in evidence and aftermath of riots. Shopping area with traffic and pedestrians, guard in evidence.

DETROIT “RIOTS”

Detroit riots 67

220307          09:24:25 - 09:26:33            1967               USA      B/W    Si

Riots Decried - President calls for Law and Order - Civil Rights
Racial violence in Detroit - 36 killed
Various shots of buildings on fire and fire brigade trying to put out fires; Shots of apartments and shops that have been wrecked and looted; people walking up streets carrying looted goods; tracking shot car along street showing devastation (President Johnson’s speech about racial violence over pictures)

220788          04:22:50 - 04:31:20            1967               USA      COL      SIL

Detroit Riots 26th Jul. 1967
Summary: Jeeps loaded with soldiers and police pass by camera. CU, South East High School entrance. Int, briefing session of colonel and staff in conference room. Sign 3rd Brigade conference room. Army cameraman filming session. CU various officers.
04:28:45 Soldier kneeling down laughing with two young black boys on street.   Police search car.
CU, damaged dry cleaning store with broken glass.
04:30:55 MS, CU, burned out house.

220788          04:31:21 - 04:39:40           1967               USA      COL      SIL

Detroit Riots 26th Jul. 1967 Part Two
04:31:21 Troops pass in jeep. Various shots aftermath of riots, burned out shops etc. Tracking shot along damaged street. Soldiers on street corner detour civilians.
04:34:40 Crowds and Police outside of County Jail. Prisoners are taken from jail, loaded onto buses for transfer to another jail. Shots of Wayne County Police standing by.
04:38:43 Detroit Police Dept, 7th Precinct. 82nd Abn soldiers on guard duty at precinct - sniper on roof.

220791          09:10:07 - 09:21:37            1967               USA      COL      SIL

Aftermath of Detroit Riots Part 1
Soldier on guard in street, traffic passing. Various shots demolished buildings and burned out cars. Shots of church from inside burned out building. Two soldiers patrol street. Girders from remains of building. Traffic passing. Delivery to building.
09:13:00 Tracking past smouldering ruins of building and burned out shops. Shot from inside of burned out shop through window grills of passing traffic.
09:14:37 Soldiers in truck, military vehicles down street. Black women walking slowly past ruined shops. Rubble and single wall left standing in building. Destroyed telephone box. Small fire burning in ruins of building. Two soldiers on guard duty in jeep. More shots devastation.Various shots destroyed buildings.

220791          09:21:38 - 09:32:12            1967               USA      COL      SIL

Aftermath of Detroit Riots Part Two
Interior offices, LTG John L Throckmorton and MG Charles P Stone in conference. Col Creel, PIO, talks with Police Superintendent and Police Commissioner. Shots of military and civilians in communications office. 09:24:32 Newsmen on phone, on typewriter and at desks. Newspapers strewn around office. Policeman talking to military officer. CU, Black MP on duty at door of press room.
09:27:26 Portacabin, temporary offices? Soldier enters. Sign Bruesser and Co. Theatrical make-up. CU Michigan Bell Telephone Company badge on van. Blocked alleyways, barbed wire, sign restricted area.
09:28:54 Soldiers on guard duty outside portacabin, sign re Detroit Operations.
09:29:45 Soldiers on guard duty in street, traffic passing.
09:30:24 Young man talking to soldier, various street scenes with troops.
09:31:09 MS, Detroit Police Department 10th Precinct bldg, troops on guard duty.


221340          14:45:09 - 14:47:17            1967               USA      B/W    SD

Riots Decried - President Calls For Law And Order
Night & aerials over Detroit & fires burning. Street & firetrucks arriving & fighting fires as blocks are burning. 14:45:52 Night & Army soldiers in front of looted buildings w/ broken windows & debris on streets.
14:46:05 Day & POV from car of looters throwing goods out windows of large shop w/ Yukon Club Beverages sign in window. Others walking on sidewalk some blacks picking up & carrying goods. Day & firemen hosing down destroyed building w/ LBJ speech about the riots behind.
14:46:29 POV past skeletons of destroyed ghetto buildings, some still burning.

221300          09:00:04 - 09:11:22            1967               USA      COL      SIL

[Detroit Riot Aftermath 28Jul67] Pt. 1 of 2
Soldier w/ rifle watching traffic past. Sunny day & burned out wreckage of cars & building from outside & inside. Church in background. Troops patrol stret past burned out buidings, two kids walk past, traffic on street. Charred wood dangling. Army vehicles in fornt of building, soldiers guarding, delivery men w/ handtrucks & boxes.
09:02:42 Pan across smoking wreckage of collapsed gutted brick buildings. Pan along street front of still standing businesses w/ signs, plywood over windows. Passing traffic seen from inside burned buildings.    Sidewalk shot of burned awnings. Soldiers w/ rifles boarding army truck, several moving down street w/ traffic. Jeep down street, Blacks on sidewalk; burned buildings & pedestrians, blue sky above. Burned telephone booths.
09:05:36 Flames of burning debris in collapsed building. Soldiers in jeep watching traffic, one talking on radio; MCU w/ microphone of walkie talkie; soldier at wheel in MCU w/ rifle at ready. Traffic shots. Jeep patrolling.
09:08:37 Traffic & Black pedestrians past collapsed buildings. Views from inside buildings. CUs deformed metal gates & beams. Bottles in ashes. Burned out Laundromat w/ sign. Water spray from burst pipe & burned washing machine in rubble. Traffic. Continued...
Note: Rioting started by police raid on Blind Pig afterhours club where return of Vietnam veterans was being celebrated, lasted from 23-28Jul67 43 killed, 1189 injured, 7200 arrested.

221300          09:11:22 - 09:21:56            1967               USA      COL      SIL

[Detroit Riot Aftermath 28Jul67] Pt. 2 of 2
Continued...   National Guard or 82nd Airborne Officers at desk on telephones & filling out papers in front of map. Major General & Lt. General of Army at desk talking. Army officer talking w/ two civilian officials in office. CU Army Officer talking (MOS); CU civilian nodding & civilian listening. CU signs: Communications; Intelligence taped to wall & personnel at work at desk looking at papers & talking. Civilians in white shirts & ties wearing headsets.
09:14:17 Man on telephone beside large manual typewriter. Newspapers on desk, civilian man laughing on phone. Man (journalist?) w/ pipe typing on manual typewriter. MCU glass office door w/ signs: Press Room. Three 82nd Airborne officers talking. Policeman in motorcycle helmet w/ rifle talking of seated. Black Military Police MP standing outside office door.
09:17:10 Ext. w/ trailer house offices behind barbed wire coils; soldier enters. Sign: F. Bruesser’s Col Masquerade Theatrical Costumers Make Up seen thru barbed wire. Michigan Bell Telephone van parked, CU of logo. Soldiers walking. Sign: Restricted area. Guards outside trailer offices w/ sign: TF Detroit Operations.
09:19:28 Army soldiers w/ rifles blocking side street, traffic past on major street. Soldier w/ rifle talking to teenage boy outside Wayne County building. Jeep patrolling. LS Detroit Police Department building, 10th Precinct. CU sign on side. MCU poldier w/ rifle. Others outside 10th Precinct building.
Note: Rioting started by police raid on Blind Pig afterhours club where return of Vietnam veterans was being celebrated, lasted from 23-28Jul67 43 killed, 1189 injured, 7200 arrested.

221300          09:22:16 - 09:34:57            1967               USA      COL      SIL

[Detroit Riot, 26Jul67] Pt. 1 of 2
82nd Airborne beside jeeps, leaving building in riot area w/ rifle fitted w/ bayonets. Officer talking to them. Jeeps down residential street, past business shot from on jeep. Down alley, soldiers off & covering buildings w/ rifles. Soldier getting Blacks to move out of car; POV past burned storefronts, w/ signs. Debris on sidewalk. Past burned Salvation Army store.
09:26:14 Jeep arrives at corner, crowd beyond. Soldiers guarding fire truck in residential area. Kids watching. Burning building beyond soldier w/ rifle. Soldier on radio standing by jeep; crowd beyond watching. Kids on bicycles men walking looking, people on porches watching. Troops in street in MCU. Soldiers climbing onto jeeps, POV down street.
09:28:37 Troops inside school sleepign, resting. White soldier reading Holiday magazine. Soldiers sleeping. Playing cards. CU Airborne patch. Soldier sleeping in jeep.
09:30:37 Army vehicles parked in park seen from helicopter taking off. Aerials over undamaged residential area & buildings where military is based. Army vehicles parked in center of school cinder track. Residential area, light smoke in distance. No damage seen. Continued...
Note: Rioting started by police raid on Blind Pig afterhours club where return of Vietnam veterans was being celebrated, lasted from 23-28Jul67 43 killed, 1189 injured, 7200 arrested.

221300          09:34:57 - 09:44:35            1967               USA      COL      SIL

[Detroit Riot, 26Jul67] Pt. 2 of 2
Continued...   Aerials from helicopter over burned out buildings & residences.   Circling around heavy white smoke from smouldering business, light traffic on street, no fire fighting, buildings alongside gutted. Other smouldering buildings among gutted buildings. Sign: Honest Joe’s seen on building w/ much smoke.
09:38:04 Aerial over block of burned out residences. LS of smoking neighborhood. Several areas of fires seen w/ smoke, some flames still burning.
09:41:25 View over undamaged middle class neighborhood w/ affluent homes & swimming pools. Cameraman in doorway of helicopter. Helicopter landing at Air Base w/ many UH-1B helicopters & planes on tarmac.
Note: Rioting started by police raid on Blind Pig afterhours club where return of Vietnam veterans was being celebrated, lasted from 23-28Jul67 43 killed, 1189 injured, 7200 arrested.

Chicago Riots

LN 501-676 01:00:05 - 01:09:31        7Apr68        COL    SIL

[Riots - Chicago, Illinois - Martin Luther King Jr. Assassination Aftermath, 07Apr68] Pt. 1 of 2

MS Chicago Tribune headline: US Troops ?? Here, newspaper blowing on ground, tilt up, sign: Welcome to Chicago in median divider, light traffic both directions.

01:00:56 Base entrance sign: O’Hara 928th Tactical Airlift Group Air Force Reserve.

01:01:12 Soldiers eating from fender of jeep ambulance parked w/ others. Rinsing mess kits in galvanized buckets of soapy water; MCU.

01:02:22 Black soldiers in helmts eating at wooden tables outdoors, daytime. Inside mess tent, white soldiers serving others. CUs.

01:05:05 Ext. Officer speaking into loudspeaker briefing troops standing by jeeps.

01:06:34 Int. Large gymnasium w/ mattresses on floor & people standing around. MCU polishing boots; reading Chicago Sun-Times newspaper w/ headline: The Worst Appears Over in Chicago...” Soldiers on blankets; playing cards, sleeping,

Military Riot Control; National Guard Reserve Units;

Note: all sound wild & not related to picture. No rights to radio broadcasts. Clearance responsibility of users.

LN 501-676 01:09:31 - 01:19:20            7Apr67           COL      SIL

[Riots - Chicago, Illinois - Martin Luther King Jr. Assassination Aftermath, 07Apr68] Pt. 2 of 2

01:09:31 Knealing at church service w/ priest & others.

01:10:54 POV from vehicle past troops on pavbement in parking lot near lake w/ jeeps, trucks & standing. Large domed building behind. Troops boarding trucks w/ rifles & ponchos. In jeeps w/ whip radio antennas.

01:13:59 Convoy thru Chicago intersection w/ skyline behind.

01:14:27 Band shell in park; civilians standing around, sitting on grass. MS crowd in sun, Black man at microphones. Traffic on expressway in background. Man applauding, walking up to camera. Field Museum in background.

01:15:37 Police in jeep by street (dark). With binoculars looking down wide street.

01:16:19 Firemen, fire trucks & heavy smoke. MS of burned out apartment building smoking heavily & flames visible in roof. CU fire hydrant & leaking hose connections. Firemen under entrance awning. Soldier w/ rifle on street, fire trucks visible (brief). Smoking burned out three-story house, pan across others. Kids playing in street & yard (brief).

01:17:33 Building burning, fireman in raised bucket but far away. Tilt down to people (very dark, unusable).

01:18:04 Night - Soldiers talking on sidewalk, traffic behind.. Talking on radio; rifle at ready. Neon lights across street.

Military Riot Control; National Guard Reserve Units; Fires; Arson;

Note: No sound this part.

LN 501-682 06:00:10 - 06:10:30            1968   COL      SIL       [Chicago, Illinoise - Martin Luther King Rioting Aftermath, 07-08Apr68] Pt. 1 of 2
Slate: 08Apr68 Cameraman H. Bowen. CU painted brick wall sign: Entrance Open Sunday & pan to show burned out building; pedestrians on sidewalk & man in BG sweeping street. Smoking rubble of collapsed tenement buildings. Street signs: N. Roosevelt & Spaulding Av (?). No Right Turn. Tilt down to smoky view of burned, destroyed houses; pan across smoking bricks.
06:01:36 Soldiers up sidewalk w/ rifles, Black pedestrians behind; past burning building remains. CU flames and iron reinforcing, rebar. Army truck w/ troops past, semi-truck following on deserted street w/ some parked cars. Pan w/ jeep & soldiers past burned out blocks. POV riding in jeep past military sentries. VERY GOOD.
06:04:00 Blacks walking past burned out building. Boys throwing stones into rubble. View looking at boys throwing stone from from across smoking rubble; others walking past; soldiers patrolling.
06:05:13 Low angle of soldier w/ rifle on rubble, others marching past.
06:05:38 LIne of soldiers of 2nd Bn, 129th Inf from Elgin, Illinois on grass at edge of Douglas Park (?). Reverse angle & traffic passing, including jeep w/ wire protection & truckload of soldiers. Black teenagers etc playing baseball & or softball in park, traffic behind, no soldiers visible. GOOD.
06:07:14 Jeep & army trucks w/ troops past.
06:07:30 Modern First Methodist Church building, tilt up & pan over plaza w/ US, County & State flags at half mast. Large sculpture. Tall buildings surrounding square & pedestrians.
06:08:22 CU of sculpture & flags behind (overexposed?). Pan around buildings from center of square. Flags on poles, waving in breeze.
06:09:45 Street signs: E. Wacker Dr., N. State St., Route 20 & buildings behind.
0610:30 Slate: 07Apr68. Troops of 4th Bn, 46th Armored from Fort Hood, Texas patrol streets in late afternoon outside stores & ?? Police car under elevated, pedestrians. POV walking behind patrolling soldiers. CU face of soldier w/ rifle walking. Black soldier standing chewing gum; another patrolling.
Military; Riot Aftermath; Poverty; Race; Ethnic; African-Americans; 1968; 1960s;

LN 501-682 06:10:30 - 06:21:23            1968   COL      SIL       [Chicago, Illinoise - Martin Luther King Rioting Aftermath, 07-08Apr68] Pt. 2 of 2
Slate: 07Apr68. Troops of 4th Bn, 46th Armored from Fort Hood, Texas patrol streets in late afternoon outside stores & ?? Police car under elevated, pedestrians. POV walking behind patrolling soldiers. CU face of soldier w/ rifle walking. Black soldier standing chewing gum; another patrolling opposite damaged buildings. Group patrolling past stationary camera; jeep w/ soldiers down street. MCU of shiny boots, rifles w/ bayonets.
06:12:33 CU sign: S. Dorchester Ave., E. 63rd St, below elevated railway. Black teenagers walking, on bicycles; White policeman directing traffic as others watch. Windows of burned out brick building. View from inside burned out building. Black men standing on street outside. Kids look at camera. CU Black policeman or fireman w/ insignia on hat. Soldiers patrolling; black women w/ Black policeman outside store w/ cans on shelf but windows broken out.
06:14:08 Black policemen w/ batons walk up street in front of police truck; White policeman w/ rifle alongside. Stores w/ lights on on opposite side of street. POV up street following policemen, past soldiers in doorways, Blacks on sidewalk walking. Helmeted white police moving them along. White soldiers outside burned out storefront.
06:15:42 View from inside thru grates of soldiers patrolling. Still photo of Martin Luther King in window w/ reflection. Pan from photo to soldiers.
06:16:27 CU hanging sign: Woodlawn Urban Progress Center. CU two Black men in elevated w/ soldier standing guard behind. CU movie sign: Joan Crawford “Berserk”, pan down to soldiers on street w/ rifles lining up. Soldier in jeep w/ radio microphone, another standing eating c-rations (?). CU talking, opening C-ration can.
06:17:46 Large group of Black youth marching under elevated tracks toward camera on vehicle. Black photographers. Group into Joyland. Firetrucks past, police cars. Joyland sign re available for parties.
06:19:00 Blacks on balcony of buildign w/ ornate carved stone decorations.
06:19:15 Graffiti on brickwall: Blackstone Prince Killers.
06:19:26 Dusk & shots of 4th Bn. 46th Armored troops encampment area, tents, water trailers. Troops standing smoking by pup tents blowing in the wind. Beside jeep w/ bayonetted rifles. POV past tents near dusk.
Military; Riot Aftermath; Poverty; Race; Ethnic; African-Americans; 1968; 1960s;

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