Date of Original
1950/1970

Subject
Civil rights movements--Virginia
Civil rights--Virginia
African Americans--Civil rights--Virginia
Civil rights workers--Virginia
African American civil rights workers--Virginia
Governors--Virginia
Segregationists--Virginia
Television--Virginia
Press--Virginia
Reporters and reporting--Virginia
WDBJ-TV (Television station : Roanoke, Va.)
School integration--Massive resistance movement--Virginia
WSLS-TV (Television station : Roanoke, Va.)

Location
United States, Virginia, City of Roanoke, Roanoke, 37.27097, -79.94143

Medium
instructional materials
news
oral histories (literary works)
records
reports
transcripts

Type
MovingImage

Description
Television News of the Civil Rights Era, 1950-1970, aims to collect, digitize, and present in streaming video format over the World Wide Web television news footage from the period and to make these valuable materials available to scholars, teachers, and students. The current archive contains films from the nightly news from two local television stations in Virginia--WDBJ (CBS) Roanoke and WSLS (NBC) Roanoke. In this initial installment we have digitized over 230 films. This rare footage includes full speeches of Martin Luther King, Jr., John F. Kennedy, Richard M. Nixon, the governors of the Commonwealth of Virginia, as well as original footage of school desegregation, public meetings, local debates over civil rights matters, and interviews with citizens., 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.

Metadata URL
http://www.vcdh.virginia.edu/civilrightstv/

Rights Holder
Copyright William G. Thomas, III and Rector and Board of Visitors, University of Virginia. All Rights Reserved. 2005.

Contributing Institution
University of Virginia. Virginia Center for Digital History

Rights