Television news of the civil rights era 1950–70

Television News of the Civil Rights Era 1950-1970 is a digital history project produced by Dr. William Thomas and the Virginia Center for Digital History at the University of Virginia. The project considers the role of Southern television during Virginia’s Massive Resistance campaign in opposition to the Brown v. Board of Education decision. The work is primarily made up of streaming video of televised news stories, with transcripts, of the desegregation debate in Virginia, including contemporary interviews with Governors Thomas B. Stanley and J. Lindsay Almond. Thomas also includes several interpretive essays, primary source documents, and suggested classroom applications. Thomas is now a professor of history at the University of Nebraska.