1963 SPECIAL REPORT: "WHITE NORTHERNERS CONFRONTED WITH NEGROS"

MAGA TIMES
Published on Jul 9, 2023
1 hour program, produced in 1963 by WGBH, originally shot on film.

Although most northern whites profess liberality and fair play, when the Negro advances in the direction of his pocketbook, his real estate, and his family life, the northern white is often overcome with unforeseen emotions and deep-seated prejudice. This one hour documentary visits a number of areas in the northern United States where whites have actually been confronted by the Negro who is demanding freedom now.

The program opens in New York Citys borough of Queens, where Negroes have been staging daily protests against alleged discrimination by construction trade unions. Focusing on the white construction worker, the program endeavors to learn how he really reacts to the demonstrations, the demands for more Negro members, and the Negro movement in general.

Next, the camera takes the viewer to Malverne, Long Island, a suburb of New York City, where Negroes want an end to de facto segregation in the schools. Here white citizens have organized to fight the New York State school commissioners order that the Malverne Board of Education affect a plan to insure that no school has more than 50 percent Negro enrollment