WSB-TV newsfilm collection
Selected raw news footage of both Georgia and national civil rights events and leaders from Atlanta's WSB-TV station from 1956 to 1980.
More About This Collection
Date of Original
1956/1980
Subject
Segregation in education--Southern States
College integration--Southern States
Civil rights movements--United States
Segregation--Southern States
African Americans--Civil rights
Freedom Rides, 1961
Location
United States, Georgia, 32.75042, -83.50018
United States, Southern States, 33.346678, -84.119434
Medium
news
documentaries and factual works
Type
MovingImage
Description
The entire collection consists of over 5 million feet of newsfilm from WSB-TV, Atlanta, Georgia and it covers the Civil Rights Movement, the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., the political careers of Jimmy Carter, Julian Bond, Andrew Young, Maynard Jackson, Herman Talmadge, Lester Maddox, Carl Sanders, George Wallace, Richard Russell, William Hartsfield, and other prominent politicians. The selected footage includes both local (in particular those in Atlanta, Albany, Rome, Augusta, Athens, Columbus, Savannah, Americus, and Macon) and national civil rights events such as the Albany Movement; the Selma to Montgomery March; the attempts to desegregate schools in Little Rock, Arkansas, New Orleans, Louisiana, and Prince Edward County, Norfolk and Arlington County, Virginia; the integration of Ole Miss, the University of Georgia, the University of Alabama, and Georgia Tech; the Freedom Rides; and .... Contains edited and raw footage. No televised newscasts are included., 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.
Contributing Institution
Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection
Henry W. Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication
Search Results
2. Series of WSB-TV newsfilm clips of future Arkansas governor Winthrop Rockefeller speaking about the effect of racial integration on schools and businesses, sometime in 1959
3. Talmadge on Supreme Court Ruling on Desegregation and Its Consequences for Legal Actions
4. LITTLE ROCK'S SCHOOL BOARD RESIGNS
5. Man Comments on Little Rock's Private School Corporation
6. LITTLE ROCK VOTE; VOTERS AT POLLS AND VOTE COUNTERS
7. LITTLE ROCK TEENS WHO BELIEVE DESEGREGATION WILL WORK IF THE "GROWN UPS" WILL LET IT
8. Governor Suggesting Measures to Allow "Cooling off" Period in Little Rock Schools
9. Series of WSB-TV newsfilm clips of Senator Smathers calling on President Dwight D. Eisenhower and other leaders to remove the Civil Rights dilemma in Little Rick, Arkansas from the political arena, 1957 October 7
10. Central High Students Comment on School Integration, Presence of Troops
11. WSB-TV newsfilm clip of African American students--the "Little Rock Nine"--integrating Central High School and white students burning an effigy in protest in Little Rock, Arkansas, 1957 October 3
12. Series of WSB-TV newsfilm clips of Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus commenting on the need for a "cooling off" period after the Little Rock Central High School desegregation, 1957 October 1
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