See It Now (CBS) - 1954-05-25
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[0:01] foreign
[0:28] [Music]
[0:31] North Carolina 18 miles west of
[0:35] Charlotte eight miles north of the South
[0:37] Carolina border population 30
[0:41] 000 85 percent white fifteen percent
[0:44] negro a big textile center Gastonia
[0:48] calls itself the spindle City and the
[0:51] City of growing Beauty it has a good
[0:53] record of race relations
[0:55] remove 881 miles south to reporter Ed
[0:59] Scott the Kane River on Whose Banks the
[1:04] city of McIntosh Louisiana was built in
[1:08] it's the oldest town in the Louisiana
[1:10] Purchase having had its roots in 1714.
[1:15] it's traditionally and culturally
[1:17] Southern and mood
[1:19] fishing today of 12 000 persons almost
[1:23] half of whom are Negroes the Negroes of
[1:26] nakatosh are distinguished by a
[1:28] controversial statue in the Town Square
[1:31] erected in grateful recognition of the
[1:33] arduous and faithful Services of the
[1:35] good [ __ ] of Louisiana
[1:37] otherwise the almost six thousand
[1:39] citizens of nakatasha observe the normal
[1:42] relationship of white to negros like
[1:45] Gastonia it has a good record in race
[1:48] relations
[1:50] this is the Supreme Court of the United
[1:53] States
[1:54] for 165 years its sacred trust has been
[1:57] to rule on and interpret the law of the
[2:00] land as embodied in the Constitution
[2:02] Equal justice under the law
[2:05] on May 17 this Court ruled unanimously
[2:08] that segregation in public schools was
[2:10] not legal tonight see it now devotes its
[2:14] entire half hour to an effort to reflect
[2:17] the opinions and attitudes of certain
[2:19] persons who live in Gastonia North
[2:22] Carolina and in nagatosh Louisiana
[2:25] so as not to interrupt this program we
[2:27] ask you first and to look at this report
[2:29] from Alco