Thurmond on CORE voter registration activities--handout

Description: Item Description Title Thurmond on CORE voter registration activities--handout News Story Number WBTW-TV News Story 4677 Sound or Silent Sound Contributing Institution University of South Carolina. Moving Image Research Collections Digital Collection Local Television Newsfilm Collections Collection Name WBTW-TV News Collection Date 1965-04 Decade 1960 Temporal Coverage Probably filmed in April 1965. Content Description Interior: closeup Republican Senator Strom Thurmond (South Carolina) speaks out against a voter registration effort by the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE). Claims that James Farmer, leader of CORE, intends to register voters and defeat Thurmond in the coming election. Geographic Location United States. Subject Thurmond, Strom, 1902-2003. Congress of Racial Equality. Voter registration--United States. Civil rights. Elections--United States. Voting. Racism. Farmer, James, 1920-1999. 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. Donor Cecil Chandler Physical Format Film: 16mm. Sound. B&W. Reversal: positive. 1.37:1 (Academy). Variable-area optical. Acetate. Citation Thurmond on CORE voter registration activities--handout. (WBTW-TV News Story 4677.) WBTW-TV News 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 01:01 Digitization Specifications This standard definition .h264 video is an access copy derived from a captured videotape master of a film original. Date Digital 2020-06-03 Language English Website https://digital.library.sc.edu/collections/local-television-newsfilm-collections/