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Description:: Oral histories documenting the history of Athens, Georgia from the mid-twentieth century to the 2010s including neighborhoods and communities in Athens, civil rights demonstrations, African American history, as well as personal histories of narrators.
Date of Original:: 2014/2016
Contributing Institution:: Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies

Description:: Oral histories conducted by Bob Short between 2006 and 2010 with politically prominent Georgians.
Date of Original:: 2006/2013
Contributing Institution:: Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies

Description:: Southline Press, Inc. was an Atlanta weekly published from 1985-1988. The collection includes images of political and civic leaders, entertainers, businesses, Atlanta landmarks, and demonstrations related to civil rights and abortion rights.
Date of Original:: 1985/1988
Contributing Institution:: Atlanta History Center

Description:: Georgia-related oral histories from the Southern Oral History Program.
Date of Original:: 1972/2006
Contributing Institution:: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project)
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library

Description:: Photographs taken by white journalist Boyd Lewis, who worked for two of Atlanta's African American newspapers, the Atlanta Voice and the Atlanta Inquirer between 1970 and 1982. Lewis' work depicts the rise of the African American political class, journalists, social activists, clergy, students, and Atlanta neighborhoods.
Date of Original:: 1970/1982
Contributing Institution:: Atlanta History Center

Description:: This collection contains films and video made in and about South Carolina. They were made by a state agency or feature regional places and people of the state.
Date of Original:: 1970/1980
Contributing Institution:: University of South Carolina. Moving Image Research Collections

Description:: Selected raw footage from Albany, Georgia's NBC affiliate, WALB during the Albany Movement, 1961.
Date of Original:: 1961/1978
Contributing Institution:: Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection

Description:: Selected Baldy editorial cartoons from the Atlanta Journal Constitution, covering the Civil Rights movement in Georgia and the rest of the South from 1953 to 1982.
Date of Original:: 1953/1980
Contributing Institution:: Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies

Description:: In the fall of 2019, WSFA donated its collection of historical news footage to the Alabama Department of Archives and History. Included are more than 7,000 audiovisual items recorded by camera operators from the 1950s to the 2000s, along with other materials such as scrapbooks, photographs, negatives, correspondence, and newsletters. The content documents almost every aspect of life in Alabama, providing a remarkable visual record of our state in the second half of the 20th century. The footage is especially rich in regard to state government and politics, but other topics such as sports, business, and society are also well represented.
Date of Original:: 1950/2010
Contributing Institution:: Alabama. Department of Archives and History

Description:: Black-and-white and color photographs from 1934 to 2000 of the Pickrick restaurant, Lester Maddox's political campaigns for governor, and his inauguration.
Date of Original:: 1934/2000
Contributing Institution:: Atlanta History Center

Description:: Collected moving image footage of Savannah, Georgia community leader and civil rights worker W. W. Law.
Date of Original:: 1930/2000
Contributing Institution:: Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection

Description:: Materials belonging to Georgia governor and businessman Lester Maddox dating from 1915/2003
Date of Original:: 1915/2003
Contributing Institution:: Atlanta History Center

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