WSFA audiovisual item D130.0005

The following segments are included: 0:00:01: National Guard members, police officers, and highway patrolmen outside the Trailways station on Lee Street in downtown Montgomery, Alabama, waiting for the Freedom Riders to leave on a bus for Jackson, Mississippi, on May 24 or 25, 1961. 0:00:55: Sheri...

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Format: Electronic
Published: Alabama Department of Archives and History
Online Access:http://cdm17217.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/wsfa/id/28
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Summary:The following segments are included: 0:00:01: National Guard members, police officers, and highway patrolmen outside the Trailways station on Lee Street in downtown Montgomery, Alabama, waiting for the Freedom Riders to leave on a bus for Jackson, Mississippi, on May 24 or 25, 1961. 0:00:55: Sheriff Mac Sim Butler arresting Fred Shuttlesworth, Wyatt Tee Walker, Ralph Abernathy, and others at the Trailways station in Montgomery, Alabama, on May 25, 1961. The men were charged with disturbing the peace after that sat at the station's white lunch counter while waiting to board a bus for Jackson, Mississippi. 0:01:34: Police officers in Montgomery, Alabama, searching an office. Included in the clip is a clipboard; men searching through a box and an empty desk; and a room of long desks of and an office area full of typewriters on long desks. (Though nothing on the original film describes this scene, it may be related to several bomb threats that were made during the Montgomery Freedom Rides in May and June 1961.) 0:01:53: Governor George Wallace speaking at a press conference from his desk at the Capitol. 0:01:59: Downtown Montgomery, Alabama, probably in the 1970s. 0:02:26: Downtown Montgomery, Alabama, probably in the late 1960s. 0:03:06: Sidney Lanier High School in Montgomery, Alabama, probably in the late 1960s. 0:03:23: St. Jude Catholic Hospital in Montgomery, Alabama.