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Ten O'Clock News; Black students, English High
05/18/1980
B-roll footage of African American and white students at work in the pottery studio at English High School. Footage of an African American teacher teaching a history class at English High School. The class discusses social unrest in the 1960s and government efforts to fight poverty. Footage of students passing through a hallway and using escalators at English High School. Exteriors of English High School. Several takes of reporter standup on a new code of discipline that Judge Arthur Garrity has called for in the Boston City Schools. School suspension guidelines have been called into question because minority students are given suspensions more frequently than white students.
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- Series
- Ten O'Clock News
- Title
Black students, English High
- Series Description
NIGHTLY NEWS WITH CHRISTOPHER LYDON AND CARMEN FIELDS Began January 1976. Replaced evening news show EVENING COMPASS. Original host: Steve Nevas. Other anchors, Christopher Lydon (1977-91) and Gail Harris (1983). In 1980 - hour long. Ended in 1991.
(PREDECESSORS: Louis Lyons began news operations at WGBH in 1952. The News at 10 began in 1966. The Reporters premiered in 1970. The Evening Compass started in 1974.) Series release date: 1/1976
- Duration
00:20:08
- Asset Type
Broadcast program
- Media Type
Video
- Subjects
- School management and organization
- Classrooms
- African American students
- Garrity, W. Arthur (Wendell Arthur), 1920-1999
- Students
- Teachers
- Discrimination in education
- Locations
- Boston (Mass.)
- Genres
- News Report
- Topics
- News
- Contributors
- Stevens, Sharon (Reporter)
- Citation
- Chicago: “Ten O'Clock News; Black students, English High,” 05/18/1980, GBH Archives, accessed October 14, 2024, http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_808E9E0CFA9048F39BC4232E9551CCEE.
- MLA: “Ten O'Clock News; Black students, English High.” 05/18/1980. GBH Archives. Web. October 14, 2024. <http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_808E9E0CFA9048F39BC4232E9551CCEE>.
- APA: Ten O'Clock News; Black students, English High. Boston, MA: GBH Archives. Retrieved from http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_808E9E0CFA9048F39BC4232E9551CCEE