Justice for all: Local television news footage during the civil rights movement in South Carolina, 1960-1969--exhibit

Item Description
Title
Justice for all: Local television news footage during the civil rights movement in South Carolina, 1960-1969--exhibit

Sound or Silent
Silent and sound

Contributing Institution
University of South Carolina. Moving Image Research Collections

Digital Collection
Civil Rights Films from Moving Image Research Collections


Collection Name
Curated Media Collection


Date
1960

Decade
1960

Coverage Temporal
Filmed between 1960 and 1969.

Description
This curated program was created for display in the exhibit "Justice for All: South Carolina and the American Civil Rights Movement." The exhibit was installed in the Hollings Library galleries from February 7-August 2, 2019.
The edited video contains excerpts of the following news stories from the WIS and WLTX TV News collections. The original outtakes can be viewed online in their entirety in the Local Television Newsfilm Collections.
--WIS-TV News Story 60-5010. Greenville Downtown Airport demonstrations--outtakes. January 1, 1960.
--WIS-TV News Story 60-5007. Allen and Benedict students demonstrate on Main Street, Columbia--outtakes. March 2, 1960.
--WIS-TV News Story 60-5011. Eckerd Drug store sit-in and arrests--outtakes. March 14, 1960.
--WIS-TV News Story 60-5013. Governor Hollings warns students against demonstrating--outtakes. March 1960.
--WIS-TV News Story 60-5005. Civil rights demonstrations in Orangeburg--outtakes. March 15, 1960.
--WIS-TV News Story 60-5003. Rock Hill civil rights protests and counter protestors--outtakes. 1960.
--WIS-TV News Story 61-81. Integration demonstrations at State House--outtakes. March 2, 1961.
--WIS-TV News Story 63-1469. Harvey Gantt interviewed at Clemson--outtakes. January 1963.
--WIS-TV News Story 63-631. Bethea on national news media and integration--outtakes. March 1963.
--WIS-TV News Story 63-670. Robert F. Kennedy arrives in South Carolina--outtakes. April 1963.
--WIS-TV News Story 63-251. Thurmond on civil rights proposals--handout. June 20, 1963.
--WIS-TV News Story 63-1501. Monteith on University of South Carolina desegregation--outtakes. July 1963.
--WIS-TV News Story 63-1471. Gloria Rackley on student demonstrators--outtakes. Late 1963.
--WIS-TV News Story 68-5000. News report and NAACP response to Orangeburg Massacre--outtakes. February 9, 1968.
--WLTX-TV News Story 155. Demonstrations to protest Orangeburg Massacre--outtakes. March 7, 1968.
--WLTX-TV News Story 389-390. Students demonstrate at State House--outtakes. March 13, 1968.
--WIS-TV News Story 66-179. Martin Luther King Jr. on voting--outtakes. May 9, 1966.
--WLTX-TV News Story 165. Ralph Abernathy interview in Columbia--outtakes. May 8, 1969.
--WIS-TV News Story 69-5000. Charleston hospital strike--outtakes. April 25-30, 1969.

Geographic Location
South Carolina.

Subjects
Civil rights.
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968.
King, Coretta Scott, 1927-2006.
Hollings, Ernest F., 1922-
Thurmond, Strom, 1902-2003.
Demonstrations.
Civil rights--Law and legislation.
Racism.
Segregation.


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.

Physical Format
Film: 16mm. Sound. B&W and color. Positive. 1.37:1 (Academy). Silent and sound. Acetate.

Citation
Justice for all: Local television news footage during the civil rights movement in South Carolina, 1960-1969--exhibit. Curated Media Collection. Moving Image Research Collections. University of South Carolina.

Time Period
Civil Rights Era (1955-1969)


Type
Moving Image

Format
video/H264

Media Type
Motion pictures (visual works)

Run Time
30:33

Digitization Specifications
High definition access copy derived from a scan of a film original on a Lasergraphics ScanStation.

Date Digital
2019-06-25

Language
English

Website
https://digital.library.sc.edu/collections/civil-rights-films-from-uscs-moving-image-research-collections/