Regional Report; School Integration

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Title:
Regional Report; School Integration
Description:
From rural communities in the South to the big cities of the North, REGIONAL REPORT #7: SCHOOL INTEGRATION explores the problems and progress surrounding integration in our public schools. Key on-location reports from counties in Georgia and Tennessee to the industrial centers of Pittsburgh and Chicago bring conflicting answers to such penetrating questions as: - Is desegregation in the South a superficial attempt to comply with federal laws on education? - Why are Negro parents in some areas of the South fearful of enrolling their children in all-white schools? - Are bigger high schools with student enrollments in the thousands the answer to racial balance in big-city schools? - Does quality education suffer in a segregated environment? - Will school integration come only after society itself becomes more integrated? Among Georgia leaders who discuss the problems of desegregation in the Deep South are Sylvan Meyer, editor of the Daily Times in Gainesville; the Rev. William Hudson, local chairman of the Clarke County NAACP; Uly Gunn, chairman of the Clarke County Board of Education; Elsie Griner, editor of the Nashville (GA) Herald; and Mrs. Frances Pauley of the Georgia Council of Human Relations. Reporting from Tennessee where a local Nashville elementary school was bombed in 1957, following the first day of desegregation, are Eugene Dietz, education reporter for the Nashville Tennessean; Nashville Mayor C. Beverly Briley; John Seigenthaler, editor of the Nashville Tennessean; and dr. John H. Harris, director of education for metropolitan Nashville and Davidson County. Frank Hawkins, editor of the Pittsburgh-Post Gazette and Sun-Telegraph, reports picketing by Negros who have grown impatient at the progress of integration. He interviews Dr. Sidney P. Marland, Jr., superintendent of the Pittsburgh public schools, and Byrd R. Brown, president of the Pittsburgh chapter of the NAACP. In Chicago, Hal Bruno, bureau chief for Newsweek magazine, discusses integration with Dr. Benjamin Willis, superintendent of schools in Chicago, and Al Raby, convener of CCCO, an association of civil rights groups in Chicago. From Washington, Jonathan Spivak, civil rights reporter for the Wall Street Journal; Commissioner Francis Keppel of the Office of Education; and Acting Director, David S. Shelley of the Office of Equal Educational Opportunities; discuss the role of the federal government and report on compliance with civil rights legislation. Edwin Bayley, NETs national editor for Regional Report, connects the various segments of the episode and concludes that school integration this fall, in his opinion, has been slight both North and South. REGIONAL REPORT #7: SCHOOL INTEGRATION. Regional producers are: Allen Bowers of WETA, Washington, Al Binford of WTTW, Chicago; Sam Silberman of WQED, Pittsburgh; Richard Parker of WDCN, Nashville; and Hill Bermont, production supervisor, William hale, producer, and David Fisher, co-producer of WGTV, Athens. This hour-long episode was filmed on location in Georgia, Tennessee, Pittsburgh, Chicago, and Washington. (Description adapted from documents in the NET Microfiche) A series of bi-monthly interpretative regional reports focusing on local aspects of important national issues. For the series, a network of regional editors made up of experienced newspaper and magazine reporters was set up at key places throughout the United States to examine the specific nature of the problem in their localities. The 19 episodes that comprise this series varied in length from 60 to 90 minutes and were all originally recorded on videotape, except for the first episode, which was originally recorded on film. (Description adapted from documents in the NET Microfiche)
Production company:
National Educational Television and Radio Center
Reporter:
Dietz, Eugene
Interviewee:
Harris, John H.
Interviewee:
Gunn, Uly
Interviewee:
Hudson, William
Interviewee:
Shelley, David S.
Reporter:
Spivak, Jonathan
Producer:
Weston, William
Reporter:
Meyer, Sylvan
Reporter:
Hawkins, Frank
Editor:
Bayley, Edwin
Interviewee:
Raby, Albert
Reporter:
Bruno, Hal
Interviewee:
Willis, Benjamin
Interviewee:
Keppel, Francis
Interviewee:
Pauley, Frances
Interviewee:
Brown, Byrd R.
Interviewee:
Marland, Sidney P., Jr
Interviewee:
Seigenthaler, John
Interviewee:
Griner, Elsie
Interviewee:
Briley, Beverly
Date:
November 24, 1965
Format:
Film/Video
Location:
Library of Congress
Collection (local):
American Archive of Public Broadcasting Collection
Series:
Library of Congress > Regional Report
Subjects:
Politics and Government
Race and Ethnicity
Education
Social Issues
Extent:
00:59:56.715
Link to Item:
http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-512-v69862cg7f
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Notes:
Episode Number: 7