Hungarian Refugees Nationalized in Virginia
(WDBJ Television, Roanoke, VA)

This film showed Hungarian refugees being naturalized in Roanoke, Virginia, in 1956. Hungary's freedom fighters in 1956 attracted enormous public sympathy and interest in the United States. Conservatives admired their courage and determination as they faced down the Soviet Union. African Americans extolled their struggle for liberation from repression and linked the cause of black freedom in America to it. African-Americans pointed to the stark incongruities of the Cold War, how the United States claimed to fight for democracy abroad and yet denied equality and freedom to African Americans at home.