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. Georgia Congressmen Hold Conference to Discuss the Desegregation Laws
3. The Georgia Board of Education will Go to Court to See that Court Ordered Desegregation is Applied to All States
4. Discussion of the Court Ordered Busing
5. Black Human Rights Leader Stresses the Need for Coordination of Southern Civil Rights Movements
6. JORDAN TALKS ABOUT RACISM AND DISCRIMINATION IN THE SOUTH IN POLITICS
7. WSB-TV newsfilm clip of Hosea Williams speaking about the possibility of violence in the Civil Rights movement, 1966 July
8. MAN CRITICIZES NEGROES SAYING THEY DO NOT REALIZE THE HARD WORK OF WHITES (1964)
9. Kennedy on Discrimination in the South
10. SECOND BLACK CITIZEN REGISTERS TO VOTE
11. Robert Kennedy on Meredith's Withdrawal Impact on the Civil Rights Issue
12. WSB-TV newsfilm clip of an unidentified African American man interviewed about boycott tactics borrowed from the Albany Movement, 1962 August 5
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