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Integrated Protest in Front of the Roanoke Times.
(WSLS Television, Roanoke, VA)

No spoken word. Members of The Hollins Movement demonstrated outside the Times World Corporation in Roanoke. Nineteen blacks and six whites carried signs that protested The Roanoke Times and the Roanoke World News for its refusal to publish black weddings and engagements. Officials from the two newspapers had no comment. (Roanoke World News, May 5, 1967)
About the film
  • Date: May 4, 1967
  • Sound: No
  • Duration: 00:45
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