Go and Be Reconciled: Alabama Methodists Confront Racial Injustice, 1954 - 1974. by William Nicholas
In September's Food for Thiought, William Nicholas discussed the fascinating story of the ongoing struggle for racial civil rights in Alabama in the 1960s and the attempts of the United Methodist Church to integrate its conferences during this period. His research of the complex confrontations in the life of a single denomination reveal an instructive mix of resistance to change and heroic
leadership. Nicholas is a Texas native and Professor Emeritus of History at Birmingham-Southern College. He was a professor of
history at the college from 1972-2012 and taught courses such as United States Diplomatic History, United States Urban
History, and American Media History.
Admission to Food for Thought presentations is always FREE. The public is invited to bring a brown bag lunch. Complimentary beverages will be provided. For additional information call (334) 353-4689.
Food for Thought 2019 is made possible by the Friends of the Alabama Archives and a grant from the Alabama Humanities
Foundation, a state program of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
The Alabama Department of Archives and History is the state’s government-records repository, a special-collections
library and research facility, and home to the Museum of Alabama, the state history museum. It is located in downtown
Montgomery, directly across the street from the State Capitol. The Archives and Museum are open Monday through
Saturday, 8:30 to 4:30. The EBSCO Research Room is open Tuesday through Friday and the second Saturday of the
month from 8:30 to 4:30. To learn more, visit archives.alabama.gov or call (334) 242-4364.
Creek Indian Removal from Alabama presented by Christopher Haveman
The Creek Nation was once one of the largest and most powerful Indian groups in the Southeast. At their peak, the Creeks controlled millions of acres of land in the present-day states of Georgia, Alabama, and Florida. Much of this land, however, was lost or stolen as the federal government sought land for white settlement after the American Revolution. By the mid-1830s, most Creeks were relocated west to Indian Territory. This month, Dr. Christoper Haveman discusses the emigration, relocation, and removal of over 23,000 Creek Indians from Alabama and Georgia between 1825 and 1836. His presentation will focus on diplomatic efforts to stave off removal, as well as the experiences of the Creek
people as they made the long and dangerous journey to present-day Oklahoma.
Dr. Christopher D. Haveman holds a Bachelor of Arts from Western Washington University, a Master of Arts from Marquette University, and a Master of Arts and PhD in History from Auburn University. He has focused extensively on the history of southeastern Native American tribes and is the author of Rivers of Sand: Creek Indian Emigration, Relocation, and Ethnic Cleansing in the American South (University of Nebraska Press, 2016) and Bending Their Way
Onward: The Creek Indians and the Long Journey West (University of Nebraska Press, 2017). Haveman is an Assistant Professor of History at The University of West Alabama.
Admission to Food for Thought presentations is always FREE. The public is invited to bring a brown bag lunch. Complimentary beverages will be provided. For additional information call (334) 353-4689.
Food for Thought 2017 is co-sponsored by the Friends of the Alabama Archives and the Alabama Humanities Foundation,
a state program of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
The Alabama Department of Archives and History is the state’s government records repository, special collections library
and research facility, and is home to the Museum of Alabama, the state history museum. It is located in downtown
Montgomery, directly across the street from the State Capitol. The Archives and Museum are open Monday through
Saturday, 8:30 to 4:30. The EBSCO Research Room is open Tuesday through Friday and the second Saturday of the
month from 8:30 to 4:30. To learn more, visit archives.alabama.gov or call (334) 242-4364.
The Rise and Decline of the Redneck Riviera
ArchiTreat August 16, 2012. Harvey H. Jackson discusses the gulf coast region.
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Spider Martin's Images of the Civil Rights Movement
Museum of Alabama Grand Opening Lectures. Spider Martin's Images of the Civil Rights Movement presented by Johnathan Purvis. February 15, 2014.
A Laboratory of Learning: Alabama State College Lab High School, a Model Education
ArchiTreats: Food for Thought lecture series. Alabama Department of Archives and History, Farley Auditorium. Laboratory of Learning: Alabama State College Lab High School, a Model Education. Presented by Sharon G. Pierson, September 17, 2015.
Alabama Population in 1900 - Digits in Three
Source: U.S. Census Bureau A three second information video in HD. Numerical information in three seconds.
15 Most Haunted Colleges & Universities in America
15 Most Haunted Colleges and Universities in America. From spooky ghosts of crazy axe murderers to the most terrifying haunted college campus, here are 15 of the most haunted colleges and universities in the USA.
This list of the 15 most haunted colleges and universities includes:
Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College (St. Mary-of-the-Woods, Indiana),
University of Illinois (Champaign, Illinois),
California State University Channel Islands (Camarillo, California),
Georgia Regents University (Augusta, Georgia),
University of Georgia (Athens, Georgia),
St. Josephs College (Emmitsburg, Maryland),
Penn State University (State College, Pennsylvania),
Drew University (Madison, New Jersey),
University of Notre Dame (Notre Dame, Nr South Bend, Indiana),
Montclair State University (Upper Montclair, New Jersey),
Wells College (Aurora, New York),
Bradford College (Haverhill, Massachusetts),
Huntingdon College (Montgomery, Alabama),
Kenyon College (Gambier, Ohio),
Ohio University (Athens, Ohio).
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Since 1968: The Drum & Spear Bookstore
A symposium exploring the themes of cultural work, geography, and community as manifested in the history of three organizations that emerged from the social, political and cultural transformations that reshaped national and global society in 1968: the Center for Traditional Music and Dance, Appalshop and the Drum and Spear Bookstore. Panel two: Established in 1968 on Fairmont Street in Washington, D.C. and operating until 1974, the bookstore (and its branch, Malezeo, located in the HUD building) was a creative hub for black power, black consciousness and internationalist activism. Founded by African-American civil rights veterans, the non-profit quickly became a leading space for cultural production and intellectual and political engagement in the city. Participants will reflect on the bookstore's leading role in expanding critical consciousness about such issues as cultural democracy, race, activism and the significance of place in the nation's capital.
Speaker Biography: Courtland Cox is president of Center for Traditional Music and Dance Consulting and part of the DC Partners for the Revitalization of Education Projects team.
Speaker Biography: Joshua Davis is assistant professor at the University of Baltimore, where he teaches and researches broadly on 20th-century U.S. history with a focus on social movements, capitalism, urban history and African American history.
Speaker Biography: Anthony Tony Gittens is founder and director of the Washington DC International Film Festival. He was profiled in the PBS Eyes On the Prize series for his contributions to the Civil Rights movement.
Speaker Biography: Jennifer Lawson first marched for civil rights in 1963 as a 16-year old in the Children’s Crusade in support of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., who had been jailed in Birmingham. In 1968, she moved to Washington D.C. and helped fellow SNCC veterans establish Drum and Spear Bookstore and Drum and Spear Press.
Speaker Biography: Judy Richardson was a staff member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in Georgia, Mississippi and Lowndes Co., Alabama and ran the office for Julian Bond's successful first campaign for the Georgia House of Representatives. Her movement involvement has strongly influenced her life's work, including her documentary film productions for broadcast and museums and in her writing, lecturing and workshops she conducts on the history and relevance of the Civil Rights movement.
Arkansas in the American Civil War | Wikipedia audio article
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Arkansas in the American Civil War
00:01:31 1 Background
00:03:42 2 The secession crisis
00:04:51 2.1 Seizure of the Federal Arsenal at Little Rock
00:07:07 2.2 The first Convention on Secession
00:09:19 2.3 Reaction to the attack on Fort Sumter
00:10:25 2.4 Arkansas leaves the Union
00:11:36 2.5 Organizing for war
00:13:27 3 Confederate units
00:14:56 4 Major campaigns
00:15:05 4.1 1861
00:17:38 4.2 1862
00:28:36 4.3 1863
00:32:42 4.4 1864
00:36:04 4.5 1865
00:38:48 5 Battles in Arkansas
00:39:05 6 Notable Confederate leaders from Arkansas
00:39:42 7 Notable Union leaders from Arkansas
00:40:35 8 The Peace Society
00:41:34 9 Restoration to Union
00:42:11 10 Image gallery
00:42:20 11 See also
00:42:44 12 Notes
00:42:52 12.1 Footnotes
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During the American Civil War, Arkansas was a Confederate state, though it had initially voted to remain in the Union. Following the capture of Fort Sumter in April 1861, Abraham Lincoln called for troops from every Union state to put down the rebellion, and Arkansas and several other states seceded. For the rest of the war, Arkansas played a major role in controlling the vital Mississippi River and neighboring states, including Tennessee and Missouri.
It raised 48 infantry regiments, 20 artillery batteries, and over 20 cavalry regiments for the Confederacy, mostly serving in the Western Theater, though the 3d Arkansas Infantry Regiment served with distinction in the Army of Northern Virginia. Major General Patrick Cleburne was the state's most notable military leader. The state also raised four infantry regiments, four cavalry regiments and one artillery battery for the Union. Finally there were six infantry regiments and one artillery battery of United States Colored Troops raised in Arkansas.
Numerous skirmishes as well as several significant battles were fought in Arkansas, including the Battle of Pea Ridge in March 1862, a decisive one for the Trans-Mississippi Theater which ensured Union control of northern Arkansas. The state capitol at Little Rock was captured in 1863. By the end of the war, programs such as the draft, high taxes, and martial law had led to a decline in enthusiasm for the Confederate cause. Arkansas was officially readmitted to the Union in 1868.
The True Glory, 1945 (restored)
Find out more about the restoration of this film, featured in The Unwritten Record, the National Archives blog of the Special Media Archives Services Division:
Creator(s): Department of Defense. Department of the Army. Office of the Chief Signal Officer. (09/18/1947 - 02/28/1964) (Most Recent)
Series : Documentary Films, compiled ca. 1914 - ca. 1944
Record Group 111: Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer, 1860 - 1985
Production Date: 1945
General Note(s): Credits: [Director, Carol Reed, Garson Kanin; Script, Eric Maschwitz, Arthur MacRae, Jenny Nicholson, Gerald Kersh, Guy Trosper; Editor, Robert Verrell; Music, William Alwyn.]
Contributor: Producer, Signal Corps in cooperation with the Ministry of Information (Great Britain). Distributed by the Office of War Information.
Use Restriction(s): Undetermined
Scope & Content: On the Allied invasion and conquest of Western Europe, 1944-1945. Reel 1, German officers inspect coastal defenses in France. Survivors are rescued from a freighter sinking in the North Atlantic. A U.S. transport arrives at Liverpool and troops debark. Shows street scenes in London and servicemen's clubs. Troops run obstacle courses and scale cliffs in training. Reel 2, Gens. Arnold, Montgomery, and Marshall meet in SHAEF headquarters. Landing craft for Operation Mulberry, tanks, munitions, and gasoline supplies are assembled on English coasts. Pres. Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin pose at Teheran, Dec. 1943. Gens. Eisenhower, Bradley, and Montgomery pose at SHAEF headquarters. Goring, et al. inspect Normandy defenses. B-17s bomb marshalling yards. Invasion convoys assemble at Southampton; ships are loaded and rest in the harbor; Gen. Eisenhower inspects troops; and the convoy weighs anchor. Reel 3, paratroops and gliders land behind the beaches. Naval guns bombard the beaches. Landing craft hits the shoreline. British troops crawl inland across fields and dig in. Wounded huddle together on Omaha Beach. Supplies are ferried to shore in LCTs. Reel 4, British mortars pound Caen and troops fight through the streets. Improvised beach facilities are erected in Operation Mulberry. British troops advance through hedgerows outside Cherbourg. Artillery blasts the city and Allied troops enter. Maquis units are armed. Harbor installations are repaired. A tank battle rages south of Caen. Reel 5, refugees return to rubbled St. Lo. Prisoners of war are taken. Tanks of the 3rd Army roll through villages and are greeted by throngs of people in Rennes. Shows Gen. Patton. Allied infantry is pinned down by artillery fire near Mortain. Royal Air Force (RAF) Typhoon fighter planes are armed, take off, and strafe the Nazi positions. Armored units roll toward Argentan under artillery support. Reel 6 shows abandoned and destroyed Nazi equipment. Thousands of Nazis surrender. Tanks roll toward Paris. Germans retreat as Free French forces, led by Gen. de Gaulle, enter Paris. 20,000 Germans surrender to British outside Brussels. Infantry and tank units cross the German border. Reel 7, infantry units assault Siegfried Line defenses. Paratroops land near Arnhem and gliders near Eindhoven in the Netherlands. Assault troops land on the Scheldt Islands and at Antwerp. Trucks are loaded at Antwerp and roll toward the front. Wintry weather strikes Allied positions from the Low Countries to the Vosge Mountains. Reel 8, infantry units at Arnhem and Bastogne are cut off and blasted by German artillery. Allied artillery and rocket fire effects a breakthrough and armor moves forward from The Bulge. Pres. Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin meet at Yalta. Armored units enter Cologne. Assault boats are moved by truck across Belgium to the Rhine. The 9th Armored Division crosses a bridge at Remagen. Troops cross in an amphibious operation. Paratroops drop on the east bank. Reel 9, thousands of Nazis surrender. U.S. prisoners are liberated. Belsen prison camp is occupied. Shows scenes of Nazi atrocities. U.S. and Russian troops meet at the Elbe. Shows brief scenes at conference tables as German leaders surrender.
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Segregation and the South - Fund for the Republic Records
A recently donated film to the Public Policy collections of the Mudd Manuscript Library, long thought lost has been digitized and is now viewable online. Segregation and the South, a film produced in 1957 by the Fund for the Republic, reported on race issues in the South since the 1954 Supreme Court decision in the Brown v. Board of Education case. It examined the slow progress of integration at elementary and secondary schools and colleges, as well as the white backlash to the decision. It also documented the Montgomery bus boycott. Much of the footage came from news organizations like CBS and NBC that was re-packaged, but some original material was filmed in Clarksdale, Mississippi, by writer and director James Peck. Broadcast on June 16, 1957, a Sunday, from 5-6 p.m., it aired on over 30 ABC affiliates, 12 in the South, but none in the Deep South.
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US Civil Rights - 220523-03 | Footage Farm
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Intertitle: Push Rights Bill - Open Hearings on Vote Legislation.
19:01:48 White House exterior. Interior: President Johnson signs letter to accompany bill to be sent to Congress to reinforce the right to vote. LBJ seated w/ Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach.
19:02:05 Katzenbach & press conference. MCU & CU taking notes.
19:02:22 High Angle / HA Montgomery Alabama - many Black & White demonstrators march carrying US & United Nations flags w/ Martin Luther King leading. MCUs. Parade passes County court house. CU from behind of club held by policeman. MCU & CU of King on steps, waiting crowd.
As I See It: Confederate Seal in Texas Capitol
Confederate seal appears in several places at Texas Capitol and nearby archives building
Radical Commitments | Session 1: Revolution || Radcliffe Institute
Radical Commitments: The Life and Legacy of Angela Davis
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2019
A cross-generational group of leading scholars, activists, musicians, and incarcerated women lead discussions on the rich tradition of activism and social theory in the late 20th century using the life and work of the political activist and pioneering philosopher Angela Davis.
WELCOMING REMARKS
Tomiko Brown-Nagin, dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Daniel P.S. Paul Professor of Constitutional Law at Harvard Law School; and professor of history in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University
(6:02) Jane Kamensky, Jonathan Trumbull Professor of American History in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and Pforzheimer Foundation Director of the Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University
FRAMING REMARKS (11:09)
Elizabeth Hinton, John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences, Departments of History and of African and African American Studies, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University
SESSION 1: REVOLUTION (25:37)
(33:46) Trevor G. Fowler, visiting adjunct professor, Wits School of Governance, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg (South Africa)
(48:00) Robyn C. Spencer, associate professor of history, Lehman College
(54:40) Robin D. G. Kelley, distinguished professor and Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair in United States History, UCLA
(1:08:04) Ericka Huggins, activist and educator
Moderator: Brandon M. Terry, assistant professor of African and African American studies and of social studies, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University
PANEL DISCUSSION (1:24:27)
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34 family members arrested in drug bust; $400k in cocaine seized
ELYRIA, Ohio - Elyria Police, Lorain Police and the Lorain County Sheriff's Department arrested 34 people—all related to each other in some way—in connection with $400,000 of cocaine seized.
The investigation started last year and ramped up in the past two months, culminating in the arrests Friday, March 13 and Monday, March 16, investigators said during a press conference Wednesday.
Authorities seized 3.4 kilos of cocaine, worth $400,000, five guns and $85,000 in cash.
The leaders of what's been dubbed the Burns, Milton and Tillman Drug Trafficking Organization by authorities are Jarvis Burns, 33, of Sheffield Lake, who paid for the cocaine, and his cousin Travis Milton, 32, of Elyria, who orchestrated large-scale buys from two dealers in Cleveland.
The large-scale transactions were at Burns' and Milton's grandmother Grace Milton's home on Tattersal Court in Elyria.
They bought $43,000 of cocaine from Christopher Craig, 43 and Bernard Washington, 44, both of Cleveland, investigators said.
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The History and Impact of Alcohol Regulation
Author and alcohol historian Garrett Peck (The Prohibition Hangover) moderates a discussion on the origins, effects, and current debate over the regulation of alcohol–exploring such topics as the three-tier system of alcohol distribution, recent industry changes, and privatization of state controlled outlets. Panelists include Jim Sgueo, President and CEO of the National Alcohol Beverage Control Association; Brien Fox, CEO, Henry A. Fox Sales Company; Warren Scheidt, President of American Beverage Licensees; and Kelley Spillane, Senior Vice President for Global Sales, Castle Brands, Inc.
History of Chicago and The Great Migration: Carol Adams & Timuel Black - Shimer College Ideas Series
▶️ The documentary and oral history of Chicago & The Great Migration, a discussion between Dr. Carol Adams & Historian Timuel Black; Presented by The Illinois Institute of Technology in collaboration with Shimer College.
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This year Shimer College joins the City of Chicago in celebrating the centennial of the Great Migration during black history month and beyond. In anticipation for 2016, we are kicking off the remembrance and festivity with this video of two celebrated American contemporaries, Dr. Carol Adams and historian Timuel Black. In this talk, Adams and Carol draw on both oral narrative and documentary accounts of this watershed moment in American History, to paint a vibrant picture of pre & post civil rights movement Chicago—the struggles it faced and continues to face. Touching on the eclipse of slavery through the injustice insidious Jim Crow, the speakers relate how their own legacies of flight from the South were intimately born of the American racial story. As the battle against everyday racism as well as institutionalized racist culture & law persists into this century, this video talk assists in broadening public discourse past Martin Luther King and Malcom X toward a richer historical context in which these figures had and continue to have meaning for national dialogue.
This video talk is brought to you by Shimer College's new youtube program Bright Ideas: a Thought Series from Chicago. Check out and subscribe to our channel for free lectures, talks, symposia, artistic performances, and more.
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Zenobia Johnson-Black, Danielle Broadwater, Osa Buchner, Vanessa Harris, Patricia Martin, Pattie Petrowski, Isabella Winkler
Illinois Tech Undergraduate Admissions; Office of Student Access, Success and Diversity Initiatives; National Society of Black Engineers; Information Technology Services; and Black Student Union
Shimer College Office of Admission, Office of Student Life, and Quality of Life Committee
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Director of the Illinois Tech Center for Diversity and Inclusion
Stuart Patterson
Associate Professor of Liberal Arts, Shimer College
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For those of you who are just discovering Shimer for the first time, Shimer is an alternative liberal arts College where students study a comprehensive “Great Books” program. This is just to say that our students take all seminar style classes instead of lectures, reading and discussing transformative books of the various fields of the liberal arts--math, science, philosophy, art, literature, psychology, sociology, anthropology and political science. We offer traditional four-year degrees, early entrance, and transfer paths. Oh, and of course, the financial aid and scholarships you need to make such a real education possible. Our biggest scholarship opportunities are the Dangerous Optimist Scholarship for transfer students transferring in the spring, and the Montaigne Scholarship for new students beginning in the fall. These scholarships, like our education, are designed to take you seriously—to meet you halfway and acknowledge the real seriousness of purpose and (in all honesty) the risk you take in applying.
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-- - --About the Great Migration-- - --
The Great Migration was the movement of 6 million African Americans out of the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West that occurred between 1910 and 1970. Some historians differentiate between the first Great Migration (1910–1930), numbering about 1.6 million migrants who left mostly rural areas to migrate to northern industrial cities; and, after a lull during the Great Depression, a Second Great Migration (1940–1970), in which 5 million or more people moved from the South, including many to California and other western states. Between 1910 and 1970, blacks moved from 14 states of the South, especially Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas, to the other three cultural (and census-designated) regions of the United States. According to US census figures, Georgia was the only Deep South state which suffered net declines in its African American population for three consecutive decades from 1920–1950. More townspeople with urban skills moved during the second migration...
A reverse migration has gathered strength since 1965...As early as 1975 to 1980, seven southern states were net black migration gainers. African-American populations have continued to drop throughout much of the Northeast, particularly with black emigration out of the state of New York, as well as out of Northern New Jersey as they rise in the Southern United States.
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Wikipedia contributors, Great Migration (African American), (accessed November 2, 2015).
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(18 Mar 1965) Story 12, PRESIDENT PUSHES CIVIL RIGHTS BILL, 200 UN 38 R 23, b/w, sound
President Johnson sends to Congress a bill to reinforce the right to vote. With Attorney-General Nicholas Katzenbach, the President signs an accompanying letter urging swift passage. Meanwhile, demonstrators in Montgomery, Ala., have no trouble with the police as they march from their church headquarters to the court house.
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Two years after the BP oil spill , tourism in the area seems on the mend, but oystermen and shrimper
HEADLINE:2 years after BP oil spill, some anxiety remains
CAPTION:Two years after the BP oil spill , tourism in the area seems on the mend, but oystermen and shrimpers are still struggling in troubled waters. (April 20)
(Locator: Lafitte, Louisana)
(Source AP: Shot by StaceyJenkins)
{Nat of birds}
{VOICEOVER}
THE SOUNDS OF NATURE MAY BE CALMING BUT TWO YEARS AFTER THE DEEPWATER HORIZON OIL SPILL SOME GULF COAST OYSTERMEN AND SHRIMPERS ARE STILL ANXIOUS.
{SOT/GaryMuth, Fisherman)
(The oil is on top of the
water ...disbursants make it sink to the bottom ... If you work the bottom you catch these tar balls.) (SOT/Joseph LaFrance,
Fisherman)
(We had some of the best
charter fishing in the world right here in Lafitte ..This impact with the oil spill its killed them too.) (VOICEOVER ) (AP File footage) ON APRIL 20, 2010 A MASSIVE OIL SPILL SPEWED BARRELS OF OIL INTO THE GULF OF MEXICO. BP HAS TAKEN RESPONSIBILITY AND WORKED TO HELP THE PEOPLE IMPACTED , (
(Locator: Lafitte, Louisiana)
BUT SOME IN THE COMMUNITY SAY
THINGS ARE STILL BAD .)
{SOT/GaryMuth, Fisherman)
{You watch a lot of
commercials especially in Mississippi and Alabama coasts that say BP I''m such and such , and BP has made us whole, made us bright, I''m sorry to say that is not the situation here..}
(VOICEOVER)
(Video from helicopter tour BP
gave AP, shot by Stacey Jenkins)
(Locator: Barataria Bay)
BP
SAYS THEY USE ADVERTISING TO HELP THE GULF COAST REBUILD AND SHOW THE PROGRESS THAT HAS BEEN MADE.
(Locator:
Lafitte, Louisiana)
BUT
THEY RECOGNIZE THERE ARE STILL CHALLENGES AHEAD AND A NEED TO SUPPORT THE PEOPLE WHO HAVE BEEN IMPACTED.
(SOT/
Mike Utsler, BP Gulf Coast Restoration)
(More
than 8 billion dollars have been paid to individuals and businesses across the Gulf coast )
(VOICEOVER)
AN ADDITIONAL ALMOST 8 BILLION
DOLLARS IS BEING READIED FOR PAYMENT .(do you prefer I use the exact estimated
7.8 billion)
(SOT/
Mike Utsler, BP Gulf Coast Restoration)
As it relates to the going forward
issues of oystermen, shrimpers and fisherman part of the plaintiff steering committee is 2.3 billion of additional dedicated settlement funds to support specifically commercial fishing.)
(VOICEOVER)
(Locator: Montgomery, Alabama)
IN ALABAMA OFFICIALS SAY THINGS ARE GETTING BETTER IN THE SEAFOOD INDUSTRY.
(SOT/Lee Sentell,Alabama
Tourism Department.)
(The seafood industry along
the Gulf coast took a substantial hit because with oil in the water, people didn''t know if it was safe to eat the seafood or not. But thanks to money from BP the seafood is more rigidly tested than its ever been in its history.) (VOICEOVER ) FISHERMEN SAY THE DIFFICULT TIMES ARE TAKING THEIR TOLL.
{SOT/Gary
Muth, Fisherman)
(We''ve been flooded
withregulations from environmental groups now. ......we went through four hurricanes and we were starting to recoup from those. And now this situation here. We have a strong resolve, but everybody has a breaking point .)
(VOICEOVER)
(LOCATOR:
Montgomery, Alabama ) IT''S A DIFFERENT STORY FOR THE TOURISM INDUSTRY AS PEOPLE SEEM TO BE HEADING BACK TO THE GULF COAST BEACHES.
(SOT/Lee Sentell, Alabama
Tourism Department.)
. There was a lot of
pent-up demand. People who maybe had been going to the beach every year, maybe during the year of the oil spill went to the mountains, went to Tennessee, or they went to the Carolina beaches, but people came back last year in huge numbers. A lot of that was helped by the fact that we had $16 million from BP to spend in
marketing.)
(VOICEOVER)
(Locator: Pensacola, Florida)
ALONG THE FLORIDA GULF COAST, HOTEL OWNERS ARE FEELING RELIEF AND HAPPY WITH LOTS OF BOOKINGS.
(SOT/ Fred Simmons, motel
owner)
(I''m having record months,
(SOT/Lee
(VOICEOVER)
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