The Civil Rights History Project: Survey of Collections and Repositories

Public radio oral history project

Repository: University of Maryland. National Public Broadcasting Archives

Collection Description (CRHP): John D. Summerfield discusses WRVR's role in providing radio coverage of the civil rights disturbances in the South during the early 1960s.

Collection Description (Extant): The Public Radio Oral History Project papers consist of a series of interviews of pioneers of public radio. The interviews were conducted by Burt Harrison, former manager of KWSU radio, during the period 1977-1978 under a contract from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

Collection URL: http://www.lib.umd.edu/NPBA/oral/interviews.html

Date(s): 1977-1978

Digital Status: Yes

Language: English

Interviewees: John D. Summerfield

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

Subjects:

Civil rights movements--Press coverage
Journalists
Radio broadcasters

Genres:

Interviews
Sound recordings
Transcripts