Charleston hospital strike, Local 1199B gathering--outtakes

Description: Item Description Title Charleston hospital strike, Local 1199B gathering--outtakes News Story Number WIS-TV News Story 7336 Sound or Silent Silent Contributing Institution University of South Carolina. Moving Image Research Collections Digital Collection Civil Rights Films from Moving Image Research Collections Collection Name WIS-TV News Collection Date 1969-04 Decade 1960 Coverage Temporal Filmed in the spring or summer of 1969. Description Scenes of a gathering of people inside a church. The crowd carries signs and wears 1199B union hats. Most likely footage from the Charleston hospital workers' strike. Ralph Abernathy and Andrew Young speak. Geographic Location Charleston (S.C.) Subjects Abernathy, Ralph, 1926-1990. Young, Andrew, 1932- Strikes--United States. Labor movement. Labor unions--Southern States. Labor disputes. Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Medical University of South Carolina. Creator Name WIS-TV (Production unit) Rights Copyright Moving Image Research Collections. All rights reserved. For further information please contact University of South Carolina, Moving Image Research Collections, Columbia, SC 29208. Supported by Digitization supported by a Recordings at Risk grant from the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR). The grant program is made possible by funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Physical Format Film: 16mm. Silent. Color. Reversal: positive. 1.37:1 (Academy). Silent. Acetate. Citation Charleston hospital strike, Local 1199B gathering--outtakes. (WIS-TV News Story 7336.) WIS-TV News Collection. Moving Image Research Collections. University of South Carolina. SC County Charleston County (S.C.); Berkeley County (S.C.) Time Period Civil Rights Era (1955-1969) Type Moving Image Format video/H264 Media Type Motion pictures (visual works) Run Time 02:21 Digitization Specifications High definition access copy derived from a scan of a film original on a Lasergraphics ScanStation. Date Digital 2019-05-09 Language English Website https://digital.library.sc.edu/collections/civil-rights-films-from-uscs-moving-image-research-collections/