| Summary: | The following segments are included:
0:00:00: Mass meeting at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama, on June 26, 1972. The footage is silent.
0:02:12: Press conference about school integration in Montgomery, Alabama, on August 8, 1972.
0:04:42: Southwest Alabama Farmers Cooperative Association (SWAFCA) in Selma, Alabama, on August 8, 1972. The footage is silent.
0:07:01: Continuation of a press conference about school integration in Montgomery, Alabama, on August 8, 1972.
0:07:59: Attorney Fred Gray speaking on December 13, 1972, about committee formed to study racial discrimination in prisons and jails in Alabama.
0:09:09: Demonstrations by students and adults at Lee High School and the Montgomery County Board of Education in Montgomery, Alabama, on March 6, 1972. At the school board, Roosevelt Barnett and two other men are carrying signs that read, "We Want Black History Taught to Our Children!"; "The P.T.G. at Lee Is Not Concerned with Tension and Hostility Among Black Students."; and "We Demand Equal Representation for Our Children in Student Government at Lee!" The footage is silent.
0:10:51: Johnny Ford sworn in as mayor of Tuskegee, Alabama, on October 3, 1972. Ford, the first Black mayor of the city, served eight terms throughout the next four decades (1972 to 1996, 2004 to 2008, and 2012 to 2016). The footage is silent.
0:13:12: Members of the "Black Blitz for the Re-election of the President" at the airport in Montgomery, Alabama, on October 23, 1972. Among the group, which campaigned for Richard Nixon in several major cities, are Mayor Johnny Ford of Tuskegee, Alabama; Paul Jones of the Black Citizens Committee for the Re-Election of the President; and Orville Pitts of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Several of them are wearing buttons that read, "Don't be taken for Granted / Re-Elect the President" and "We're not in the bag / Re-Elect the President."
0:14:42: Headquarters of Percy Smith Jr., National Democratic Party of Alabama (NDPA) candidate for Alabama's 2nd Congressional District, in September 1970. Smith ran against incumbent Bill Dickinson, who won his reelection campaign.
0:16:33: John Cashin of the National Democratic Party of Alabama (NDPA), launching his campaign for governor in September 1970, on the steps of the Capitol in Montgomery, Alabama. Percy Smith Jr., candidate for the 2nd Congressional District, is standing beside him.
0:18:07: Charles Evers speaking to an audience in the Logan Hall auditorium at Tuskegee Institute on February 15, 1970.
0:21:05: Integration of Carver High School and Carver Elementary in Montgomery, Alabama, in September 1970. The footage is silent.
0:22:35: John Cashin of the National Democratic Party of Alabama (NDPA), speaking about candidacy for governor in September 1970.
0:23:43: Fred Gray announcing his candidacy for Place 2 in the 31st District of the Alabama House of Representatives (Barbour, Bullock, and Macon Counties) in February 1970. Gray had run for the position unsuccessfully in 1966, but he and Thomas Reed won both district seats in 1970, becoming the first African Americans to serve in the Alabama Legislature since Reconstruction.
(The notes accompanying the original film also mention a clip of Fred Gray speaking about the lawsuit filed by the NAACP on behalf of the Tuskegee syphilis study participants, but that footage was not found on the reel.)
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