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Atlanta, Georgia has a reputation as the Southern city that is 'Too busy to hate', with a black mayor and school administration. Tey the school system remains virtually egregated. What then is the ...city to do? Is there any alternative to bussing with all its associated problems and is it ever possible to neutralise education in terms of other inter-related issues and processes at work in any major city? These are the key issues raised in this programme.
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Module code and title: E361, Education and the urban environment
Item code: E361; 02
First transmission date: 18-04-1978
Published: 1978
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Duration: 00:22:10
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Producer: Gwynn Pritchard
Contributors: Andrew McBrearty; John Raynor
Publisher: BBC Open University
Keyword(s): 1973 Atlanta Compromise; Alonso Crim; Bussing; Change; Civil rights; Compromise; Desegregation; Edgar Gumbert; Five points; Gene Furguson; Hosea Williams; Inner-city; Lyn Westergaard; Marjorie Hames; Megastructure; Omni; Poverty; Race; White Flight
Footage description: The programme opens with the Reverend Hosea Williams who expresses belief in a multi-racial integrated society. Over aerial views of Atlanta Raynor briefly describes the extent of the city's prosperity. Shots of big new hotel around the Five Points area of the city. Raynor contrasts the work habits of the city's blacks and it whites. Film of the Omni, a huge new housing and amenity centre. Film of Atlanta's poverty stricken black ghetto. Raynor introduces Gene Furguson, a 1960s civil rights campaigner who is now a Community Organiser. In interview Furguson describes some of the problems facing Atlanta's black community. Street scenes. Raynor comments on the job opportunities of black women. Film of rich black suburbs, over which Raynor describes the position of Atlanta's rich blacks. Shots of Martin Luther King's church in Atlanta. Short extract from a speech of King's, then shots of his grave. In interview Hosea Williams explains how economic disadvantages nullify all recent gains in the status of blacks. Film of black teenagers at school and boarding a school bus. Raynor describes the large scale removal of white children from Atlanta's schools since desegregation was introduced. In interview Lyn Westergaard, of "Northside AtIanta Parents for Public Schools" describes the problems that resulted from the flight of whites. Hosea Williams amplifies this theme. Shots of freeway commuters and new white suburbs outside Atlanta City. In interview Edgar Gubert, a white professor of Education, explains why he has paid for his children to be educated privately. Shots of black children playing basketball. Raynor describes the 1973 Atlanta Compromise which installed a black administration. Interview with one of these administrators, Alonso Crim, who is the School Superintendent. Crim explains why the compromise took place and so ended bussing. In interview Marjorie Hames, of the American Civil Liberties Union, sharply criticises the 1973 Compromise. Hosea Williams endorses these criticisms. Also in interviev, Crim denies these criticisms. Furguson explains the importance of education to the black community. Street scenes. Raynor describes the legal action the American Civil Liberties Union is taking for the return of bussing. Hames explains what they are after. Westergaard comments on the need for full integration. Aerial shots of Atlanta over which Raynor comments on the need for the whites money to be brought back into the city. Finally, Williams outlines his plan for taxing Atlanta's white population.
Master spool number: 6HT/72820
Production number: 00525_6184
Videofinder number: 3986
Available to public: no