Excerpt from a film based on the 1970 Lamar High School Bus Attack. African-American students chatting inside a school bus. School bus passing on a road. A gathering of militant white American parents in front of Lamar High School in Lamar, South Carolina (216 N Darlington Ave, Lamar, SC 29069). One African-American student looking agitated inside the school bus. The crowd angrily talk about how letting African-Americans study in the school impedes their rights. “not here, not now, not ever!” said a woman with disgust. A sign saying “Welcome to Lamar” prompts boy to say, "do you think they mean welcome?" “He ain’t gonna be in my grandson’s class!” a man says, pertaining to the possibility of African-American students studying alongside White students. African-American students become agitated as they approach Lamar. Woman wearing a headscarf and sunglasses talks about the arrival of the African-American students with indignation. Man menacingly holds a bat and say “They’ll gonna wish they was never born”. Lamar High School with state troopers guarding the front of the school. The school bus approach. Angry mob member holding baton behind his back, another mob member holding a brick. Angry mob crowd the school bus. African American students, scared, get down on the floor to avoid being hit with projectiles and broken glass from angry mob. The angry mob breaks the school bus windows. Image of state troopers outside Lamar High School. Title sequence of “The Color of Justice” with the overturned school bus in Lamar as the background.
A teacher of a segregated African American school in South Carolina, rings the bell for the students to attend the classes. The amenities of the school added by labor of the children and teachers of the school itself. Poor conditions and poverty exemplified by dirty and unsafe outhouse. Views of nicer facilities in white schools. White students playing basketball.
Educational dissimilarities between the students of African American and white origin in South Carolina. Parked school buses. White students climb a bus to carry them to their schools. Bus passing an Esso gas station. A group of African American children walks along a road to reach their school.
Educational dissimilarities between students of African American and white origin in South Carolina. The Clinton Normal and Industrial School, a residential school for African Americans run by A.M.E. Zion Church. The school building, quarters and playground. The students and teachers of the school. Man without legs in wheelchair. Daily work being accomplished by students themselves. Woman pumping water, woman hanging clothes on line. Men washing clothes in washtub. Clothes hanging on line. Images of the Friendship Baptist College at Rock Hill supported and run by Baptist African Americans. White interviewer shaking hands with the dean of the school. NAACP seal at end of production.
Bedford County School in South Carolina, only for pupils of white origin. The school has clean compound, well built and finished school building. School buses dropping off students. Students sitting outside the school building. Students playing basketball and tennis on well furnished courts.
A segregated school for African American students in South Carolina. Children walk to reach the school. Its students pose outside the school. The dilapidated building of the school is in poor condition with broken or no windows. Pupils playing outside the school. Teachers of the school. Periphery of the school without any playground, with animals grazing.
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