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Go to HomepageReel Number: 221367-06
Color: Black and White
Sound: SIL
Year / Date: 1957
Country: USA
Location: Arkansas,Little Rock
TC Begins: 06:34:34
TC Ends: 06:43:40
Duration: 00:09:06
Little Rock Central High School Integration Enforcement, 29Sep-0ct0157 Ext. of US Army Milistary District Arkansas office, w/ army cars parked along street in front. Two officer come out. CU sign on door. Officers entering, exiting & into car of Army National Guard. 06:35:27 Chaplain & Protestant services for National Guard outside of armory. Catholic services, Camp Robinson. 06:35:34 Slate: ??Sep57 Maj. General Edwin Walker, Maj. Gen. Sherman I. Clinger, State AG, & Lt. Col. Ernest B. Bowden Commander of the 1st Bn, 153rd Inf. Regt. Arkansas National Guard talking on street in front of Central High School, Little Rock. 06:36:07 Negro students escorted by Guard members w/ batons while students watch from windows. Up steps past students. 06:36:26 Slate: 27Sep57 Camp Robinson, Catholic services for 101st. Men kneeling, standing, receiving communion. MCU Walker talking to men after church. CU men & CU Walker. 06:38:27 Protestant services on grounds of Armory, boy playing portable organ & men singing hymns. 06:39:28 Street barricade w/ soldier, white girl walks past, others standing on sidewalk. LS of school from across street, guard patrolling in foreground. Guard posted by entrance, students sit on steps in sun. 06:40:35 Slate 30Sep57 Gen. Walker talking w/ Col Bowden & Col U. Beakley. Newsmen across street, Walker giving interview w/ school behind. More talking in front of school. Student walk down sidewalk followed by two National Guard soldiers. 06:42:34 Slate 01Oct57 Walker talking w/ Col Kuh & officer & EM at rear of school. Walker & Kuhn walk over to men working on jeeps. Integration; Anti-Segregation; Teenagers; 1950s Americana; Eisenhower Era;