The Recount
Meet The Black Women Who Changed Our Voting Laws
Voting rights leaders like LaTosha Brown are fighting harder than ever, as voter suppression bills pile up in states across the country. For Black History Month, The Recount is reflecting on Black women, then and now, who have always led...
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USA: PRESIDENT CLINTON HONOURS CIVIL RIGHTS HEROINE ROSA PARKS
Washington D-C, United States, 14 September 1996
1. Wide shot Clinton on stage
2. Cutaway audience
3. SOUNDBITE: (English) Bill Clinton
4. Cutaway audience
5. SOUNDBITE: (English) Bill Clinton
6. Audience
7. Clinton on stage
8. Wide shot...
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Homer Plessy, Key To "Separate But Equal," On Road To Pardon
The Louisiana Board of Pardons voted unanimously to pardon the namesake of the U.S. Supreme Court's 1896 "separate but equal" ruling.
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Beginning Wednesday at the Library of Congress, the public will have full access to Rosa Parks' archive of letters, writings and photographs for the first time. Parks is beloved in American history for her civil disobedience on an Alabama bus. (Feb. 4)
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Beginning Wednesday at the Library of Congress, researchers and the public will have full access to Parks' archive of letters, writings, personal notes and photographs for the first time....
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Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick Among Few To Lie In Honor
Capitol Police officer and military veteran Brian Sicknick, who died during the insurrection, was buried in Arlington National Cemetery.
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CLEAN : Berlin to give refuge to Rosa Parks Detroit House
Rosa Parks fled the American South for Detroit in the 1950s at the height of her civil rights struggle. Now the house where she sought asylum has itself found refuge in a city an ocean away: Berlin
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Claudette Colvin's Juvenile Record Expunged After 66 Years
The 82-year-old says having a clear record is important because of the message it sends to her grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
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Gladys Knight, Stevie Wonder perform; Bishop gives fiery eulogy at Franklin service
Former presidents and preachers joined a parade of singers Friday in a hip-swaying, piano-pounding farewell to Aretha Franklin, remembering the Queen of Soul as a powerful force for musical and political change and a steadfast friend and...
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Rosa Parks House to be Shown After Odyssey
The small, tired house that served as a refuge in Detroit for civil rights icon Rosa Parks is now looking for a new home.
The house was abandoned and had been on a demolition list in Detroit until it was bought by Parks'...
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Civil Rights Pioneer Honored In Alabama
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Montgomery, Alabama – 3 May 2018
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Rosa Parks House to be Shown After Odyssey
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The small, tired house that served as a refuge in Detroit for civil rights icon Rosa Parks is now looking for a new home.
The house was abandoned...
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CLEAN : Madrid mural depicting prominent women vandalised ahead of International Women's Day
A mural paying homage to women was vandalised during the night of March 7 in Madrid, ahead of International Women's Day, with vandals using black paint to erase the faces of Frida Kahlo, Rosa Parks or Angela Davis among others (Footage...
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USA: PRESIDENT CLINTON STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS (2)
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Speaking before a Congress torn over his impeachment trial, Bill Clinton delivered a historic State of the Union address on Tuesday night.
Appealing past his impeachment accusers and jurors, the embattled U-S president made...
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Thousands pay last respects to civil rights pioneer
1. Wide top shot of Capitol Rotunda interior
2. People inside Capitol Rotunda walking around coffin paying their final respects to Rosa Parks
3. Coffin, people walking past in foreground
4. Various of new Supreme Court nominee Samuel...
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Preview of portfolio of photography for sale in upcoming Christie's auction
1. Tilt up exterior of Christie's auction house
2. Close up of Christie's logo
3. Pan of exhibition space with photographs due to be auctioned
4. Zoom in on "Chicago, 1956" by Robert Frank
5. Tilt down from "Movie Premiere-Hollywood,...
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New exhibition at Mandela museum shows letters to Rosa Parks and Mandela
1. Wide exterior Nelson Mandela Museum
2. Poster at entrance of museum showing photos of Nelson Mandela and Rosa Parks with the slogan (English) "Dear Mr Mandela, Dear Mrs Parks"
3. Close-up of poster with photos of Parks and Mandela...
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USA: PRESIDENT CLINTON STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS
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Speaking before a Congress torn over impeachment, U-S President Bill Clinton delivered his State of the Union address on Tuesday night.
Although his speech concentrated heavily on domestic issues, the American President...
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Thousands attend Rosa Parks' funeral
1. Wide shot of mourners inside church where funeral was held for Rosa Parks
2. Close up of former US President Bill Clinton and wife, Senator Hillary Clinton entering funeral of Rosa Parks
3. Bill and Hillary Clinton walking towards...
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Obama and Clinton speak on 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King's "I Have A Dream" speech
President Barack Obama led civil rights pioneers on Wednesday in a ceremony for the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington, where Dr. Martin Luther King Junior's "I Have a Dream" speech roused the 250,000 people who rallied there...
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An essay written by civil rights icon Rosa Parks gives an account of a young black housekeeper who is nearly raped by a white neighbor. An expert has said it might be drawn from her own life, but an institute created by her says she wrote it as fiction.
HEADLINE: Parks essay appears to discuss rape attempt
CAPTION: An essay written by civil rights icon Rosa Parks gives an account of a young black housekeeper who is nearly raped by a white neighbor. An expert has said it might be drawn...
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Public paying respects to Cummings at Capitol
Members of the public are paying their respects to the late Maryland Rep. Elijah Cummings, as his body lies in state outside the House chamber where he served for 23 years.
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Public paying respects to Cummings at Capitol
Members of the public are paying their respects to the late Maryland Rep. Elijah Cummings, as his body lies in state outside the House chamber where he served for 23 years.
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WRAP Reax on first full day of Obama's presidency ADDS Detroit, Atlanta
Washington, DC
1. Low angle of people walking outside Ben's Chili Bowl restaurant, people queuing in background
2. Wide of queue outside Ben's Chili Bowl
3. Interior of Ben's Chili Bowl, employees working, customers sitting at bar
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Diddy casts his vote in the US presidential election
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New York 4, November 2008
1. Exterior shot of Landmark High School
2. Diddy arriving and speaking to reporters outside
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Diddy/Hip-Hop Mogul:
"People have died and fought for us to have this right so...