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Reuben Lawson Files Pulaski Integration Suit (WSLS Television, Roanoke, VA)
No spoken word. File footage of NAACP attorney Reuben Pulaski filing an integration suit in Roanoke's Federal District Court. The suit filed on behalf of 18 black children attempting to integrate the all-white Pulaski High School named Superintendent Frank J. Critzer and the State Pupil Placement Board as defendants. (The Washington Post, March 25, 1960)

About the film Date: March 25, 1960 Sound: No Duration: 00:28	This film is indexed under the following terms: Massive Resistance Other Films • Glossary Entry NAACP Other Films • Glossary Entry Pupil Placement Board Other Films • Glossary Entry Reuben Lawson Other Films • Glossary Entry Pulaski County, VA Glossary Entry
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