Rosa Parks speaks with Crocker Highland School students
About This Item
KPIX-TV news footage from December 2 1975 with reporter Ben Williams featuring scenes from Oakland's Police Administration Building, where 150 students from Crocker Highland School are listning to civil rights activist Rosa Parks talk about her refusal to give up a bus seat in Montgomery, Alabama 20 years earlier. Includes views of students seated in an auditorium listening to Rosa Parks speak via "long distance telephone" from the Detroit office of Congressman John Conyers, where she currently works and also of a student asking Parks a question. Opening graphic designed by Carrie Hawks.
Note: this film reversal print was re-transferred in 4K (4096 x 2970) using a Lasergraphics ScanStation film scanner, in April 2021.
- Date
- 12/2/1975
- Format
- 16mm color reversal print, with co-magnetic soundtrack
- Digital Format
- mp4 file
- Genre
- local newsfilm
- Copyright Holder
- CBS5 KPIX-TV
- Duration
- 1:29
- Identifier
- KPIX 128077
- Views
- 1920
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