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Urban racial violence, riots, looting, and arson in Detroit, Michigan.

Riots, looting, and arson during an outbreak of urban racial violence in Detroit, Michigan. Entire blocks of homes on fire as seen at night. 36 are dead, over a thousand injured during period of unrest in the civil rights movement. A fire truck arrives at the scene. A house on fire. Firemen put out fire. A building engulfed in flames. Sniper groups keep watch outside shops to prevent looting. A looted and trashed shop. Storefront window glass is shattered. People walk on the trashed streets of Detroit. Firemen use jets of water to put out fire. President Lyndon B. Johnson denounces the riots and urges national law and order. “Pillage, looting, murder, and arson have nothing to do with civil rights” President Johnson said.

Date: 1967, July 28
Duration: 2 min 9 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675029470
Grey Hound bus destined to Little Rock, Arkansas. Stops at Central High School

Shows a Greyhound bus traveling to Little Rock Arkansas, moving on streets in the city. Exterior view of the bus in motion as seen from another vehicle. German Press crew inside the bus, along with passengers. Point of view shots from inside the moving bus of Little Rock Arkansas area as seen through the bus window. Scenes of a gas station, used cars shop, government building. A German reporter exits from the bus in front of Central High School and mentions having been there 6 years ago during civil rights confrontations surrounding the "Little Rock Nine" in 1957, when National Guard troops were dispatched to maintain order.

Date: 1963
Duration: 2 min 38 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675029476
Arkansas National Guard and police prevent integration of Central High School in Little Rock Arkansas. German reporter speaks

German reporter speaks (in German) in front of the camera in Little Rock, Arkansas during Little Rock School Crisis, a watershed event dealing with desegregation in schools during the American Civil Rights movement. Arkansas National guard troops in background. Police arrest protesters. African American man being arrested. Large angry crowd gathers. Governor Orval Faubus greets National Guard officers. Man carried away by police. Shows crowds in favor of integration and crowds in favor of segregation (preventing the enrollment of the "Little Rock Nine" African American students), and police and Arkansas National Guard response (under Faubus) dealing with angry racist crowd and preventing integration of the schools despite the National Supreme Court ruling in Brown v. Board of Education.

Date: 1957, September
Duration: 1 min 33 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: German
Clip: 65675029477
101st US-Airborne Division of United States escorting the 'Little Rock Nine' to Little Rock Central High school in Arkansas.

Federal troops arrive in Little Rock,Arkansas to restore law and order follow court rulings on desegregation in schools. Troops march through residential areas. Shows soldiers of the 101st US-Airborne Division of United States escorting the Little Rock Nine (African American/African-American students) to Little Rock Central High school under civil rights integration orders.

Date: 1957
Duration: 1 min 54 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675029478
Little Rock Central High school, 6 years after strife about racial desegregation of 1957

Shows several newspaper headlines relating to racial segregation and desegregation in Little Rock Central High school in Little Rock, Arkansas and the civil rights movement. Elizabeth Eckford, a member of the Little Rock Nine (African American students) speaks about the changes in Little Rock Central High school since 1957. High school girls,including an African American girl, shooting in a firing range. African American students are among those seen in Central High School lunch room. Students, including an African American, play basketball.

Date: 1963
Duration: 2 min 47 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675029479
School official speaks over the admission of African American students in Little Rock Central High school in Arkansas.

Standing in the gymnasium of Little Rock Central High school in Arkansas, a school official talks about operating under a "Pupil Assignment Law" under which school officials assign students so that there are some black among mostly white students and some white among mostly black students in Arkansas schools (during period of civil rights focus and the "Little Rock Nine" in the United States). Integrated students, including whites and some African Americans, play basketball in background.

Date: 1963
Duration: 1 min 35 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675029480