viu_tncre tncre viu yes Television news of the civil rights era, 1950-1970 Civil rights movements--Virginia Civil rights--Virginia African Americans--Civil rights--Virginia Civil rights workers--Virginia African American civil rights workers--Virginia Governors--Virginia Segregationists--Virginia Television--Virginia Press--Virginia Reporters and reporting--Virginia WDBJ-TV (Television station : Roanoke, Va.) School integration--Massive resistance movement--Virginia WSLS-TV (Television station : Roanoke, Va.) Television News of the Civil Rights Era, 1950-1970, aims to collect, digitize, and present in streaming video format over the World Wide Web television news footage from the period and to make these valuable materials available to scholars, teachers, and students. The current archive contains films from the nightly news from two local television stations in Virginia--WDBJ (CBS) Roanoke and WSLS (NBC) Roanoke. In this initial installment we have digitized over 230 films. This rare footage includes full speeches of Martin Luther King, Jr., John F. Kennedy, Richard M. Nixon, the governors of the Commonwealth of Virginia, as well as original footage of school desegregation, public meetings, local debates over civil rights matters, and interviews with citizens. The Civil Rights Digital Library received support from a National Leadership Grant for Libraries awarded to the University of Georgia by the Institute of Museum and Library Services for the aggregation and enhancement of partner metadata. [Charlottesville, Va.] : University of Virginia, Virginia Center for Digital History University of Virginia. Virginia Center for Digital History 2005 Instructional materials Moving images News Oral histories Records Reports Transcripts http://www.vcdh.virginia.edu/civilrightstv/ 1950/1970 Virginia Roanoke (Va.) Copyright William G. Thomas, III and Rector and Board of Visitors, University of Virginia. All Rights Reserved. 2005. 20090526 113709