Civil Rights Digital
Library 2022
Press Kit
The struggle for racial equality in the 1950s and 1960s is among the most far-reaching social movements in the nation's history, and it represents a crucial step in the evolution of American democracy.
The Civil Rights Digital Library brings together more than 200 libraries, archives, and museums to provide free online access to historical materials documenting the Civil Rights Movement in the United States. These collaborative partnerships are the bedrock of this national project.
First envisioned in 2005 through a National Leadership Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the Civil Rights Digital Library launched in 2008 as part of the University System of Georgia’s GALILEO statewide virtual library initiative. Along with these continuing collaborations, the Digital Library of Georgia (DLG), an initiative of the University of Georgia Libraries and GALILEO, administers the site.
In addition, generous support continues to be provided by the following partners: Georgia Humanities, the Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection, the New Georgia Encyclopedia, and the Franklin College of Arts & Sciences, University of Georgia.
CIVIL RIGHTS DIGITAL LIBRARY
CONTENTS INCLUDE:
CONTENTS INCLUDE:
The Civil Rights Digital Library contains contributions that are a result of longstanding partnerships, both statewide and national, documenting civil rights events that include:
The desegregation of Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas (1957).
The Atlanta Temple bombing (1958),
The Atlanta sit-ins (1960),
The Freedom Rides (1961),
The desegregation of the University of Georgia and Georgia Tech (1961),
The Albany Movement (1961–1962),
The desegregation of Ole Miss (1962) and the University of Alabama (1963),
The Birmingham Demonstrations (1963),
The Americus Movement (1963, 1965).
Biographical information about civil rights workers and footsoldiers.
More than 3,000 names of people active during the civil rights era can be browsed alphabetically by surname. Many of them may not be familiar, but their commitment to the movement formed the backbone of transformative civil rights campaigns and social reform.
The New Georgia Encyclopedia (NGE) provides hundreds of concise, authoritative articles that cover events and individuals associated with the civil rights movement in Georgia.
Images, multi-media files, and online exhibitions in the NGE further investigate civil rights figures and events. NGE’s content is made possible by Georgia Humanities in partnership with the University of Georgia Press, the University System of Georgia/GALILEO, and the Office of the Governor.
The University of Georgia Libraries’ Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection hold the preserved raw newsfilm footage from Georgia television stations WSB (Atlanta) and WALB (Albany). These stations covered civil rights events throughout the entire Southeastern United States.
MONTAGE of ALBANY MOVEMENT NEWSFILM FOOTAGE, 1961-1962
View montage of Albany Movement footage, 1961-1962.
Courtesy of the Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection.
STILL IMAGES and LINKS to
WSBN NEWSFILM CLIPS
WSB-TV newsfilm clip of African American women arrested for picketing in Albany, Georgia, 1962. Courtesy of the Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection.
Series of WSB-TV newsfilm clips of African American civil rights workers, Georgia National Guardsmen, and city officials in Albany, Georgia, 1961 December. Courtesy of the Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection.
WSB-TV newsfilm clip of African American student protesters singing as they are arrested by police at the Albany Carnegie Library in Albany, Georgia, 1962 August 2. Courtesy of the Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection.
Series of WSB-TV newsfilm clips of a civil rights march and resulting arrest; civil rights preachers and local officials speaking at mass meetings; groups of Albany city officials as well as civil rights leaders entering the federal courthouse; and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and Reverend Ralph D. Abernathy at a press conference in Albany, Georgia, 1962 July. Courtesy of the Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection.
Series of WSB-TV newsfilm clips of a civil rights march and resulting arrest; civil rights preachers and local officials speaking at mass meetings; groups of Albany city officials as well as civil rights leaders entering the federal courthouse; and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and Reverend Ralph D. Abernathy at a press conference in Albany, Georgia, 1962 July. Courtesy of the Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection.
Series of WSB-TV newsfilm clips of a civil rights march and resulting arrest; civil rights preachers and local officials speaking at mass meetings; groups of Albany city officials as well as civil rights leaders entering the federal courthouse; and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and Reverend Ralph D. Abernathy at a press conference in Albany, Georgia, 1962 July. In this still image, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. expresses his disappointment of the injunction blocking demonstrations issued by federal district judge J. Robert Elliott and his gratitude for the reversal of that injunction by Judge Tuttle. He calls the audience to present their bodies as a significant witness by continuing to move and work for freedom. Courtesy of the Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection.
WSB-TV newsfilm clip of an unidentified white female civil rights worker describing the challenges she faces in rural southwest Georgia from Mt. Zion Baptist Church in Albany, Georgia, 1962 August 1. This still image includes participants of a mass meeting, possibly at Shiloh Baptist Church, singing the freedom song, "Keep Your Eyes on the Prize." Courtesy of the Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection.
COLOR USAGE:
Information for retaining consistency when replicating Civil Rights Digital Library content in other Web or print spaces.
Civil Rights Digital Library Web Colors
(Hex, RGB)
Purple - hex # 802755 | RGB 128, 39, 85
Blue - hex # 265B88 | RGB 38, 91, 136
Light Brown - hex # AA7B5D | RGB 170, 123, 93
Black - hex # 000000 | RGB 0, 0, 0
Turquoise - hex # 278891 | RGB 139, 136, 145
Civil Rights Digital Library Print Colors (CMYK)
Purple - CMYK | [C= 44, M = 95, Y = 42, K = 23]
Blue - CMYK | [C = 75, M = 39, Y = 0, K = 40]
Light Brown - CMYK | [C = 30, M = 52, Y = 66, K = 9]
Black - CMYK | [C = 60, M = 60, Y = 60, K = 100]
Turquoise - CMYK | [C = 81, M = 31, Y = 40, K = 4]
Items in the Civil Rights Digital Library that are licensed for immediate reuse
(no rights requests needed).
CIVIL RIGHTS DIGITAL LIBRARY PROJECT DOCUMENTATION:
Original Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) grant reports for the Civil Rights Digital Library made available in ScholarWorksUGA dating back to 2005.
Since 2021, the New Georgia Encyclopedia and Digital Library of Georgia staff have collaborated with Georgia graduate students statewide on exhibits drawn from materials belonging to partner libraries, archives, and museums across Georgia.
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