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Richard Leacock photographs the first week of school integration in November 1960 in New Orleans, which is marked by violent demonstrations of hatred by white parents as their children look on, a vision of how prejudice is passed on, one divided generation passing its legacy of conflict to the next.

As six-year-old Ruby Bridges mounts the steps of William Frantz Elementary School as its only African-American student, she is surrounded by three U.S. Marshals to protect her from the menacing crowd. Her first-grade classmate, Yolanda Gabrielle, also 6, is escorted to the same school by her mother, one of the few white children whose parents refused to join a racist boycott. Yolanda becomes the target of the taunts of a crowd of shouting segregationists as she makes her way to school.

Another first-grader, Tessie Prevost, from the segregated 9th Ward in New Orleans, also receives the protection of U.S. Marshals to enter and leave another nearly empty, newly desegregated elementary school, McDonogh No. 19. She, along with Leona Tate and Gail Etienne, had previously attended black-only schools in their neighborhood. Tessie’s grandmother explains that Tessie was raised to know that just because a person was white did not mean they were any different from her, and so the tumult around her attending a new school is confusing.

When Yolanda’s mom comes to pick her up at the end of the school day, the ugly crowd swarms them on the walk home. Police only intervene when a fight breaks out, but then do little else to prevent the harassment. The crowd follows Yolanda home and surrounds her family’s house, banging on windows and yelling slurs. Yolanda’s father comes home from work only to tell his wife that he’s been provoked by angry co-workers to quit his job.

The narrator concludes: “As for the children watching, perhaps you have discovered in them another, deeper story: of their legacy of conflict, handed down as it has been for generations. But now with some changes. Now, for the first time, there are the Tessie Prevosts and children following in the footsteps of Yolanda Gabrielle watching, too. Watching their parents, supported by the law of the land, in calm and determined opposition to the fury spent against them. What all the children are learning as they now watch will only be discovered when they become parents and their children are watching them.”

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Governor George Wallace will not let two black students into an Alabama school, against the wishes of President Kennedy. Loud shouts come from both sides of the issue as JFK stands by his decisions.

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The post Robert Drew – Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment (1963) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

It’s the tail end of winter in 1960. U.S. Senators Hubert Humphrey and John Kennedy seek the Democratic Party’s nomination for President. Wisconsin’s primary – one of the few direct primaries at the time – is on April 5. We see both candidates on the road; it’s retail politics, shaking hands, signing autographs, smiling. We hear part of a standard stump speech from Kennedy; we watch Humphrey talk to farmers in a rural hall. Kennedy is favored. We see his wife, his brother Robert briefly, and on election night his sisters Pat and Eunice. Jacqueline speaks a few words of Polish at a Milwaukee rally. The returns come in; it’s on to Indiana and West Virginia.

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