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[News Clip: UTA Civil Rights]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV television station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story.
Date: March 24, 1969
Duration: 33 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Piccadilly]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV television station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the second week of civil rights demonstrations at the Piccadilly Cafeteria in Dallas, Texas.
Date: June 11, 1964
Duration: 1 minute 33 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Demonstrators]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV television station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a civil rights demonstration at the Dallas Piccadilly Cafeteria.
Date: May 30, 1964
Duration: 2 minutes 57 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Piccadilly]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV television station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about continued civil rights demonstrations at the Piccadilly Cafeteria in Dallas, Texas and Judge Walker refusing to dismiss a restraining order which was issued against the demonstrators at the request of the cafeteria.
Date: June 18, 1964
Duration: 2 minutes 05 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Piccadilly pickets]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV television station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about continued civil rights demonstrations at the Piccadilly Cafeteria in Dallas despite yesterday's injunction that forbids all members of the Congress of Racial Equality from appearing within 50 feet of the cafeteria entrance.
Date: June 25, 1964
Duration: 1 minute 41 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Piccadilly pickets]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV television station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about civil rights demonstrators attempting to integrate the Piccadilly Cafeteria in Dallas despite restraining orders issued by District Judge Blankenship.
Date: June 8, 1964
Duration: 1 minute 45 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Hearing]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV television station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about ongoing civil rights demonstrations at the Piccadilly Cafeteria in Dallas, Texas. A hearing regarding the status of a temporary restraining order against the demonstrators is interrupted by a parade for the Jaycees annual convention which includes a Confederate flag that stretches from one side of the street to the other.
Date: June 24, 1964
Duration: 4 minutes 03 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: UTA fuss]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a story about Frank Harrison, President of the University of Texas at Arlington, reading a prepared statement in response to the demands made by African American students.
Date: March 24, 1969, 12:00 p.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 38 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Demonstrators]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV television station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about continued civil rights demonstrations at the Piccadilly Cafeteria in Dallas, Texas. Several demonstrators are scheduled to appear in court to answer contempt citations.
Date: June 10, 1964
Duration: 1 minute 43 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Demonstrators]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV television station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the third week of civil rights demonstrations at the Piccadilly Cafeteria in Dallas, Texas. Demonstrators, including Earl Allen and Steve Hancock, are arrested or obstructing entry to a public building.
Date: June 14, 1964
Duration: 1 minute 15 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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Medgar Evers (1925-1963) and the Mississippi Press

Description: Medgar Evers was gunned down in front of his home in June 1963, a murder that went unpunished for almost thirty years. Assassinated at the height of the civil rights movement, Evers is a relatively untreated figure in either popular or academic writing. This dissertation includes three themes. Evers's death defined his life, particularly his public role. The other two themes define his relationship with the press in Mississippi (and its structure), and his relationship to the various civil righ… more
Date: December 1996
Creator: Tisdale, John Rochelle, 1958-
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Embracing Equality: Texas Baptists, Social Christianity, and Civil Rights in the Twentieth Century

Description: Texas Baptists in the twentieth century struggled to overcome prejudice and embrace racial equality. While historians have generally agreed that Baptist leadership in Texas was more progressive in regard to race relations than that of other southern states, Texas Baptists acquiesced to calls for racial justice with great difficulty. This study seeks to analyze the relationship between Texas Baptists' understanding of social Christianity and their views of racial equality. Furthermore, this s… more
Date: May 2013
Creator: Davis, Joseph J.
Partner: UNT Libraries
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[News Script: News at ten]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story. This story aired at 10pm.
Date: April 10, 1969, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Harrison]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.
Date: April 30, 1969, 6:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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