The Civil Rights History Project: Survey of Collections and Repositories

[C-SPAN programs on the civil rights movement]

Repository: C-SPAN Archives

Collection Description (CRHP): Searching the C-SPAN Video Library at http://www.c-spanvideo.org/videoLibrary/ for the "civil rights movement" reveals a multitude of programs and transcripts dealing with it. Civil rights activists, of the past and present, discuss the movement, and scholars and politicians talk about it today. This collection is particularly rich for realizing how the civil rights movement is understood in today's political arena and more recent political history.

Collection URL: http://www.c-spanvideo.org/videoLibrary/

Digital Status: Partial

Extent: 282 videorecordings; 3,547 transcripts

Language: English

Related Archival Items: Using other search terms rather than "civil rights movement" promises to reveal even more civil rights related programs in this archive.

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

Subjects:

Civil rights demonstrations
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
United States--Politics and government
Violence

Genres:

Interviews
Speeches
Transcripts
Videorecordings