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
14. NEW YORK ANTI-SEGREGATION DEMONSTRATION; DEMONSTRATORS PICKET WHILE BLACK ACTIVIST DISCUSSES SEGREGATIONIST EFFORTS IN THE SOUTH
15. SOUTHERN GOVERNOR DEFENDS MISSISSIPPI'S RIGHT TO HANDLE SCHOOL PROBLEMS LOCALLY (1962)
16. Report on Southerners Continuing Segregation
17. WSB-TV newsfilm clip of an unidentified official from the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) speaking to a reporter about ongoing the Freedom Rides, New York City, New York, 1961 May or June
18. ELLENDER ON BRINGING SENATE TO A HALT BY STRATEGIES DESIGNED TO BLOCK PASSAGE OF CIVIL RIGHTS BILL
19. KING ON THE FRUSTRATION OF ALLOWING THE LEGAL ACTIONS TO TAKE THEIR SLOW COURSE
20. WSB-TV newsfilm clip of picketers from the Congress of Racial Equality outside of an F.W. Woolworth store and a S.H. Kress store demonstrating in support of the North Carolina student sit-ins, in New York, New York, 1960 February 13
21. ALCORN ON CIVIL RIGHTS AND THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY
22. REPORT ON FAUBUS'S WIDE SPREAD SUPPORT SIGNIFYING THE POPULARITY OF ACTIVE SEGREGATIONISTS
23. Senator Russell Tells how the Southern States are Being Manipulated in the Senate (1958)
24. SENATOR TALMADGE ON THE NEED FOR LOCAL AUTHORITY OF SCHOOLS (1958)
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