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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.

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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.

Metadata URL
https://bmac.libs.uga.edu/pawtucket2/index.php/Detail/collections/146

Contributing Institution
Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection
Henry W. Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication

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1. Series of WSB-TV newsfilm clips of activities organized for Poor People's Campaign participants visiting Atlanta and a Poor People's Campaign rally with speakers Coretta Scott King, Ralph D. Abernathy and Hosea Williams, Atlanta, Georgia, 1968 May 9

Creator:: WSB-TV (Television station : Atlanta, Ga.)
Date of Original:: 1968-05-09
Collection:: WSB-TV Newsfilm Collection
Contributing Institution:: Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection

2. WSB-TV newsfilm clip of an interview with Robert Kennedy as he arrives in Atlanta, Georgia, 1967 September 29

Creator:: WSB-TV (Television station : Atlanta, Ga.)
Date of Original:: 1967-09-29
Collection:: WSB-TV Newsfilm Collection
Contributing Institution:: Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection

3. WSB-TV newsfilm clip of H. Rap Brown predicting the onset of race war and announcing that Stokley Carmichael has been killed in Alabama, 1967 June 12

Creator:: WSB-TV (Television station : Atlanta, Ga.)
Date of Original:: 1967-06-12
Collection:: WSB-TV Newsfilm Collection
Contributing Institution:: Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection

4. Series of WSB-TV newsfilm clips of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. condemning the Georgia state legislature for refusing to seat Julian Bond at a press conference held in Atlanta, Georgia, 1966 January 13

Creator:: WSB-TV (Television station : Atlanta, Ga.)
Date of Original:: 1966-01-13
Collection:: WSB-TV Newsfilm Collection
Contributing Institution:: Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection

5. Series of WSB-TV newsfilm clips of Lester Maddox promoting states' rights and segregation as he speaks to a white audience in Americus, Georgia, 1965 July 29

Creator:: WSB-TV (Television station : Atlanta, Ga.)
Date of Original:: 1965-07-29
Collection:: WSB-TV Newsfilm Collection
Contributing Institution:: Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection

6. Series of WSB-TV newsfilm clips of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. speaking about the work of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in Chicago as well as current political parties, Atlanta, Georgia, 1965 June

Creator:: WSB-TV (Television station : Atlanta, Ga.)
Date of Original:: 1965-06-00
Collection:: WSB-TV Newsfilm Collection
Contributing Institution:: Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection

7. WSB-TV newsfilm clip of an Atlanta civil rights march protesting alleged police brutality in Selma, Alabama, Atlanta, Georgia, 1965 March 16

Creator:: WSB-TV (Television station : Atlanta, Ga.)
Date of Original:: 1965-03-16
Collection:: WSB-TV Newsfilm Collection
Contributing Institution:: Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection

8. WSB-TV newsfilm clip of a news report about continued segregation at the Lester Maddox Cafeteria, with comments by segregationist Lester Maddox and African American civil rights lawyer Donald Hollowell, Atlanta, Georgia, 1965

Creator:: WSB-TV (Television station : Atlanta, Ga.)
Date of Original:: 1965
Collection:: WSB-TV Newsfilm Collection
Contributing Institution:: Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection

9. Series of WSB-TV newsfilm clips of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. discussing an alleged Republican plot to encourage African Americans to write-in King's name in the presidential election during a press conference held in Atlanta, Georgia on 1964 November 2

Creator:: WSB-TV (Television station : Atlanta, Ga.)
Date of Original:: 1964-11-02
Collection:: WSB-TV Newsfilm Collection
Contributing Institution:: Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection

10. Series of WSB-TV newsfilm clips of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. speaking to reporters after learning he has won the Nobel Peace Prize in Saint Joseph's Hospital, Atlanta, Georgia, 1964 October 14

Creator:: WSB-TV (Television station : Atlanta, Ga.)
Date of Original:: 1964-10-14
Collection:: WSB-TV Newsfilm Collection
Contributing Institution:: Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection

11. WSB-TV newsfilm clip of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. speaking to reporters about the upcoming presidential election and efforts by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference to encourage African Americans to vote, Savannah, Georgia, 1964 October 3

Creator:: WSB-TV (Television station : Atlanta, Ga.)
Date of Original:: 1964-10-03
Collection:: WSB-TV Newsfilm Collection
Contributing Institution:: Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection

12. Series of WSB-TV newsfilm clips of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. speaking to reporters during the Southern Christian Leadership Conference's annual convention, Savannah, Georgia, 1964 October 1

Creator:: WSB-TV (Television station : Atlanta, Ga.)
Date of Original:: 1964-10-01
Collection:: WSB-TV Newsfilm Collection
Contributing Institution:: Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection

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