KVOS Channel 12 Film Records 1961-1967

Farmer, James Leonard, Jr., 1920-1999

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Civil rights leader, author, labor organizer, and teacher, James Leonard Farmer, Jr. was born on January 12, 1920, in Marshall, Texas. He earned degrees from Wiley College (1938) and the Howard University School of Divinity (1940). Farmer went on to found the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) which played a key role in the Civil Rights movement, particularly in launching the Freedom Rides in the summer of 1961. These bus rides tested the federal interstate transportation accommodations at bus t...

Horn, Kahn-Tineta, 1940-

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Kahn-Tineta Horn was born in 1940 in New York City. She is a Canadian actress and activist and a member of the Mohawk Nation....

Connelly, Marc, 1890-1980

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American playwright, actor, director, producer, and author; b. Marcus Cook Connelly; d. 1980; winner of O. Henry Short Story Prize (1930) and Pulitzer Prize (1930); member of the Algonquin Round Table literary group. From the description of Marc Connelly collection, 1915-1980. (Boston University). WorldCat record id: 70974938 Playwright; full name is Marcus Cook Connelly. From the description of Reminiscences of Marc Connelly : oral history, 1959. (Columbia Un...

Gregory, Dick, 1932-2017

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Epithet: US comedian and civil rights activist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000561.0x000133 ...

KVOS-TV (Television station : Bellingham, Wash.)

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Bond, Horace Julian, 1940-2015

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Civil rights activist, state representative, and state senator Julian Bond was born on January 14, 1940 in Nashville, Tennessee. He and his family moved to Pennsylvania, where his father, Horace Mann Bond, was appointed president of Lincoln University.In 1957, Julian Bond graduated from the George School, a Quaker school in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, and entered Morehouse College. In 1960, Julian Bond was one of several hundred students who helped form the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Commit...

Webster, Joseph

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Epithet: of Tavistock, county Devon British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001028.0x00001c ...

Ford, Leighton

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Sons of Freedom Dukhobors.

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Hargis, Billy James, 1925-

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Billy James Hargis was born on August 3, 1925, in Texarkana, Texas. He graduated from Texarkana High School, and briefly attended Ozark Bible College in Bentonville, Arkansas, before dropping out to become a preacher. Ordained as a minister by the Disciples of Christ while still a teenager, he later received a degree in theology from Burton College and Seminary in Colorado Springs, Colorado. He served as pastor to churches in Sallisaw, Oklahoma, and Granby, Missouri, before becoming pastor of Fi...

Swift, Al, d 1935-

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Magnuson, Warren G. (Warren Grant), 1905-1989

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Warren Grant Magnuson (b. April 12, 1905, Moorhead, Minn.-d. May 20, 1989, Seattle, Wash.), a U.S. Representative and U.S. Senator from the State of Washington, graduated from the University of Washington law school in 1929 and served in several local and state-wide political posts until 1936 when he was elected as a Democrat to the U.S. Congress. During the Second World War he served in the U.S. Navy attaining the rank of lieutenant commander. He was a member of the Senate from 1944 to 1981, se...

KVOS Channel 12

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In 1953 the Federal Communications Commission issued a license for television station KVOS-TV to operate in Bellingham, Washington. Owned by local businessman and entrepreneur Rogan Jones - then the owner of KVOS radio - KVOS-TV broadcast its first program on May 23, 1953, featuring the coronation of British monarch Queen Elizabeth II. Despite Jones' conviction that television could succeed in a city as small as Bellingham, the station had early difficulties supporting i...

Benad Avital

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Douglas, William O. (William Orville), 1898-1980

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Associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, and professor of law. From the description of William O. Douglas papers, 1801-1980 (bulk 1923-1975). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71068743 William O. Douglas was nominated to the Supreme Court by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1939. His nearly thirty-seven year tenure as a Supreme Court justice was the longest in the history of the court. From the guide to ...

Treacher, Arthur, 1894-1975

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Arthur Treacher

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Burr, Raymond, d 1917-

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Avital, Benad

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Mowat, Farley

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Berton, Pierre, d 1920-

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