KXAS/NBC5 Mansfield Report
Story by Kristi Nelson on Mansfield integration attempts in 1956.
KXAS report on Mansfield integration attempts in 1956, by Kristi Nelson.
KXAS/NBC5
2014-04-03
KXAS News Script: NAACP to Fight Restraining Order
When a restraining order is placed on the NAACP in Texas, the organization vows to combat the situation.
A state official served the Dallas branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People with legal papers restraining the organization from further operation until a trial is convened.
KXAS News Script: NAACP to Fight Restraining Order, UNT special collections, KXAS-TV/NBC-5, Fort Worth TX.
KXAS-TV/NBC-5
1956-09-23
KXAS News Script: NAACP Ouster Suit Is Heard At Tyler
Proceedings begin in a Tyler court over the trial of the NAACP in Texas.
Judge Otis T. Dunagan hears testimony from both the state of Texas and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Alabama Attorney General McDonald Gallion sat in on the proceedings to bring a similar suit against the NAACP in his state.
KXAS News Script: NAACP Ouster Suit is Heard at Tyler, UNT special collections, KXAS-TV/NBC-5, Fort Worth TX.
KXAS-TV/NBC-5
1956-09-28
KXAS News Script: NAACP Trial Continues
In its 17th day, the trial of the NAACP in Texas continues in Tyler, Texas.
Court convened for the 17th day of the trial between the state of Texas and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. State Attorney General John Ben Shepperd accused the organization of barratry while Thurgood Marshall of the NAACP said the state used intimidation and threats on black litigants to keep them from testifying.
KXAS News Script: NAACP, UNT special collections, KXAS-TV/NBC-5, Fort Worth TX.
KXAS-TV/NBC-5
1956-10-23
News Clip: New Racial Strife in Fort Worth ; Mansfield
News Clip of Lloyd G. Austin and Mansfield high school
Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany two news stories. The first is about protests and demonstrations against an African American family who recently moved onto an all-white street in a racially mixed neighborhood. Second is a story about U.S. Supreme Court Justice Minton granting Mansfield high school the opportunity to delay a court order requiring the school to admit African American students
News Clip: "New Racial Strife in Fort Worth, Mansfield" UNT special collections, KXAS-TV/NBC-5, Fort Worth Tx
KXAS-TV/NBC-5
1956-09-02
KXAS News Video: Probe of NAACP in Dallas Continues
Video depicts state lawyers sifting through files at the NAACP office in Dallas.
In the weeks following the Mansfield Crisis, Texas Attorney General John Ben Shepperd was granted a temporary injunction against the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People while state lawyers searched through the organization's records, looking for evidence of barratry and tax fraud.
KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.). [News Clip: Probe of NAACP in Dallas Coninues ; Magnolia ; Zonta ; Mrs. American Opens Building Project ; Yom Kippur ; Football Luncheon], Video, September 14, 1956; (http://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc307604/ : accessed May 06, 2015), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, http://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections, Denton, Texas.
KXAS-TV
1956-09-14
KXAS News Script: "Mansfield School Opens"
For a third time a mob of white citizens forms outside Mansfield high school as the first day of classes begin.
A mob formed outside Mansfield high school for a third time on September 4th, the first day of school and the last day of registration. Texas Rangers were on the scene to make sure no violence erupted. Superintendent Huffman followed Shivers order to transfer out any Negro student who tried to register. On this day two notable persons arrived to make right the situation at Mansfield. A man named “Jesus Christ” asks permission to take down the effigy hanging from the flagpole but receives no help and vows to come back with a ladder but never returns. A second man named Reverend D. W. Clark shows up calling for the mod to disperse. Reverend Clark is escorted away by a Texas Ranger. The mob leaves quietly when it is certain that no Negro will register. The school board continues to fight for a delay of court order but Mansfield does not integrate.
KXAS News Script: Mansfield School Opens, UNT special collections, KXAS-TV/NBC-5, Fort Worth TX.
KXAS-TV/NBC-5
1956-09-04
KXAS News Script: "New Racial Strife in Fort Worth"
covering a news story about protests and demonstrations against an African American family who recently moved onto an all-white street in a racially mixed neighborhood.
20 miles North of Mansfield another incident involving integration occurred. Lloyd G. Austin and his family moved into an all white neighborhood and this action was met with mob violence. The White Citizens Council of the area meets to discuss what action must be taken in the case of Austin. A mob forms around Austin house and stones and soda bottles are thrown causing windows to breaks. Austin proceeds to fire a shot at a nearby car in defense. Police later show up and the crowd begins to leave.
KXAS News Script: New Racial Strife in Fort Worth, UNT special collections, KXAS-TV/NBC-5, Forth Worth Tx.
KXAS-TV/NBC-5
1956-09-02
KXAS News Script: "Mansfield"
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Minton granting Mansfield high school the opportunity to delay a court order requiring the school to admit African American students.
After the display of mob violence U.S. Supreme Court Justin Minton grants Mansfield high school the opportunity to delay the court order issued by Estes. This delay would allow the Mansfield school board to lawfully refrain from opening the high schools doors to Negros. Another effigy is mentioned. This effigy was hung above the front doors of the high school and becomes the third figure to appear in protest.
KXAS News Script: Mansfield, UNT special collections, KXAS-TV/NBC-5, Fort Worth Tx.
KXAS-TV/NBC-5
1956-09-02
KXAS News Script: "Mansfield Continues To Defy Court Order"
Citizens of Mansfield continue to form outside Mansfield high school in order to keep Negros from registering
For the second day in a row a mob formed outside Mansfield High School to keep Negro students from registering. On this day Governor Allan Shivers sent Texas Rangers to the town to keep peace but not to intimidate any of the Mansfield citizens. Assistant District Attorney Grady Hight is escorted from the scene when a heated verbal exchange breaks out but Hight walks away uninjured. Also on this day a camera is broken but no other altercations occur. Three Negro students attempted to enroll via telegram but are denied because they must appear in person to register. Attorney for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) announces that no Negro students will register so long as there is a threat of mob violence.
KXAS News Script: Mansfield Continues to Defy Court Order, UNT special collections, KXAS-TV/NBC-5, Fort Worth Tx.
KXAS-TV/NBC-5
1956-08-31