[News Script: Dummy Hanging at Mansfield Probed] Metadata

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Title

  • Main Title [News Script: Dummy Hanging at Mansfield Probed]
  • Series Title NBC News Scripts

Creator

  • Author: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
    Creator Type: Organization

Date

  • Creation: 1956-08-29

Language

  • English

Description

  • Content Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the hanging of a red paint splattered, straw-stuffed dummy in effigy of an African American man in Mansfield, Texas, in response to the federal desegregation order demanding Mansfield admit thirteen African American students to its high school.
  • Physical Description: 2 p. ; 28 cm.

Subject

  • Library of Congress Subject Headings: Television broadcasting of news.
  • University of North Texas Libraries Browse Structure: Business, Economics and Finance - Communications - Media
  • Keyword: news stories
  • Keyword: scripts
  • Keyword: news segments
  • Keyword: desegregation
  • Keyword: dummies
  • University of North Texas Libraries Browse Structure: Government and Law - Federal Courthouses
  • Library of Congress Subject Headings: Segregation in education -- United States.
  • Library of Congress Subject Headings: Segregation -- United States -- 1940-1960.
  • Library of Congress Subject Headings: School integration.
  • Keyword: anti-integration
  • Keyword: racism

Primary Source

  • Item is a Primary Source

Coverage

  • Place Name: United States - Texas - Tarrant County - Mansfield
  • Coverage Date: 1956-08-29
  • Time Period: mod-tim

Collection

  • Name: KXAS-NBC 5 News Collection
    Code: KXAS

Institution

  • Name: UNT Libraries Special Collections
    Code: UNTA

Rights

  • Rights Statement: Materials in this collection may be licensed for reproduction or publication, according to the policies of the UNT Libraries' Special Collections department. Restrictions may apply.
  • Rights Holder: NBC5/KXAS-TV
  • Rights License: copyright

Resource Type

  • Script

Format

  • Text

Identifier

  • Accession or Local Control No: 1956-08-29_hanging
  • Archival Resource Key: ark:/67531/metadc306257
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