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13167_8928_civil_rights_pope
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1963
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Newsreel overview of civil rights demonstrations and actions in 1963. African-Americans being arrested, beaten, and mobbed by police. Man with head wound and blood on his white shirt. Non-violent sit-in demonstration ends in everyone being arrested and loaded in the back of a paddy wagon. Young black men running and being sprayed by fire hoses. Blacks walking with while chained togtether. CU of chains around their wrists. Group singing “freedom!” with woman in front clapping. Integration enforced by National Guard at University of Alabama. Black students. “Pope Paul VI” Pope John XXII gives his last blessing in St. Peters Square before dying. His dead body on display. Pope Paul VI becomes his successor.