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Description:: Selected raw news footage of both Georgia and national civil rights events and leaders from Atlanta's WSB-TV station from 1956 to 1980.
Date of Original:: 1956/1980
Contributing Institution:: Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection
Henry W. Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication

Description:: This curated collection brings together diverse archival footage from the University of South Carolina's Moving Image Research Collections (MIRC) documenting the Civil Rights movement, and the long struggle for equality and social justice in South Carolina and beyond.
Date of Original:: 1955/1975
Contributing Institution:: University of South Carolina. Moving Image Research Collections
University of South Carolina. South Carolina Political Collections

Description:: The Local Television News Collections at Moving Image Research Collections (MIRC) comprise approximately 1.5 million feet of 16mm motion picture film outtakes dating from the late 1950s to the early 1980s, donated by several South Carolina television stations. These outtakes document over two decades of local people and events, as well as reportage surrounding significant moments in national and world news throughout the 1960s and 1970s. Paper holdings include teleprompter scripts from 1963 through 1979.
Date of Original:: 1955/1980
Contributing Institution:: South Caroliniana Library

Description:: Multimedia resource for secondary school teachers to enhance their knowledge and ability in teaching African American history.
Date of Original:: 1954/1975
Contributing Institution:: Columbia Center for Digital Research and Scholarship

Description:: Photographs and documents relating to the Little Rock School Integration Crisis from the collections of the Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library.
Date of Original:: 1954/1958
Contributing Institution:: Dwight D. Eisenhower Library

Description:: Television news footage and scripts read on-air by anchorpersons at WSLS-TV in Roanoke, Virginia from 1951 to 1971; content includes a significant amount of coverage of the Massive Resistance Movement and Civil Rights Movement in Virginia.
Date of Original:: 1951/1971
Contributing Institution:: University of Virginia. Library

Description:: Television news footage, oral histories, and instructional materials describing the Civil Rights movement in Virginia from the 1950s to 1970.
Date of Original:: 1950/1970
Contributing Institution:: University of Virginia. Virginia Center for Digital History

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:: The Joseph Echols and Evelyn Gibson Lowery Collection, 1946-2014, contains approximately 450 linear feet of personal papers, sermons, speeches, correspondence, SCLC and SCLC/WOMEN records, and hundreds of historical photographs and audiovisual records documenting the Lowery's struggle of justice and equality. The Lowery Trust granted sole ownership of the collection to Morehouse College in March 2021. Shortly thereafter, the Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library was formally designated as custodian of the collection with responsibilities for housing and providing access for students, scholars, researchers, and the global community.
Date of Original:: 1946/2014
Contributing Institution:: Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library

Description:: Online scrapbook documenting African American life in Charlotte and Mecklenburg County, North Carolina from the 1940s through the 1990s.
Date of Original:: 1940/1999
Contributing Institution:: Public Library of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County (N.C.)

Description:: Oral history interviews with civil rights activists conducted as part of the Civil Rights History Project Act of 2009.
Date of Original:: 1940/1969
Contributing Institution:: Library of Congress
American Folklife Center
National Museum of African American History and Culture (U.S.)

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Date of Original:: 1940/1979
Contributing Institution:: South Carolina. Educational Television Commission

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