The Civil Rights History Project: Survey of Collections and Repositories

[Civil rights footage in Maine]

Repository: Northeast Historic Film

Collection Description (CRHP): This collection consists of film that mainly covers civil rights developments in Maine but also addresses larger civil rights events, including Martin Luther King Jr.'s death.

Digital Status: No

Extent: film; videotapes

Language: English

Related Archival Items: See the separate database record for the related WCVB-TV collection at this archive and/or consult the attached document, which also has two paragraphs on it.

Interviewees: James Meredith, Carl Baxter

Rights (CRHP): Contact the repository which holds the collection for information on rights

Subjects:

African Americans--Civil rights--Maine
Civil rights demonstrations
Civil rights movements--Alabama
Civil rights movements--Maine
Civil rights--Cases
Freedom Rides, 1961
Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968--Death and burial
Ku Klux Klan (1915- )
Maine--Politics and government
Meredith, James, 1933-
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Segregation in education--Maine
Television broadcasting of news
Urban renewal
White supremacy movements

Genres:

Interviews
Videorecordings