Thurmond on Voting Rights--handout

Description: Item Description Title Thurmond on Voting Rights--handout News Story Number WIS-TV News Story 65-838 Sound or Silent Sound 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 1965-02 Decade 1960 Coverage Temporal Filmed February, 1965 Description Interior: medium closeup Senator Strom Thurmond (South Carolina) speaking. Says proposed new Civil Rights Bill could let illiterates and criminals vote and serve on juries. Say the Congress was told the 1957, 1960, and 1964 Civil Rights Bills would be the final take on the subject. Says Martin Luther King will never be satisfied. Note: handout; same as WBTW 4547. Geographic Location United States. Subjects Thurmond, Strom, 1902-2003. Voting. United States. Voting Rights Act of 1965. Civil rights. 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. Positive. 1.37:1 (Academy). Variable-area optical. Acetate. Citation Thurmond on Voting Rights--handout. (WIS-TV News Story 65-838.) WIS-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 00:59 Digitization Specifications High definition access copy derived from a scan of a film original on a Lasergraphics ScanStation. Date Digital 06/26/2019 Language English Website https://digital.library.sc.edu/collections/civil-rights-films-from-uscs-moving-image-research-collections/