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| Creator: | WSB-TV (Television station : Atlanta, Ga.) |
| Title: | WSB-TV newsfilm clip of African American student Charlayne Hunter and other white students walking around campus and a white man speaking to reporters and handing out cards at the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia, 1961 January 16 |
| Date: | 1961 Jan. 16 |
| Description: | In this silent WSB newsfilm clip from the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia on January 16, 1961, Charlayne Hunter, one of the first African American students at the university, walks around campus as do white students; an unidentified white man appears to speak to reporters and hand out cards. The clip begins with students walking on the University of Georgia campus. Charlayne Hunter walks up the steps next to Meigs Hall, and cameramen observe the scene. Next reporters and cameramen speak to an unidentified white man who is wearing a hat. He appears to speak and hand out business cards. Finally, students again walk around campus; some watch from the windows of a building, possibly Old College. A man leaving a building holds the door open for Hunter as she passes. Charlayne Hunter and Hamilton Holmes first applied to the University of Georgia in the summer of 1959 but were denied based on lack of space according to the university. After several other unsuccessful applications, lawyers for the two students filed a federal lawsuit against the university. On January 6, 1961 federal judge William A. Bootle ordered the university to admit the students and to stop rejecting applicants solely based on race; Hunter and Holmes began attending classes at the University of Georgia on January 10, ending 176 years of segregation. Title supplied by cataloger. The Civil Rights Digital Library received support from a National Leadership Grant for Libraries awarded to the University of Georgia by the Institute of Museum and Library Services for digital conversion and description of the WSB-TV Newsfilm Collection. |
| Types: | Moving images | News | Unedited footage |
| Subjects: | Hunter-Gault, Charlayne | College students--Georgia--Athens | African American college students--Georgia--Athens | Reporters and reporting--Georgia--Athens | College integration--Georgia--Athens | Segregation in education--Georgia--Athens | Camera operators--Georgia--Athens | College integration--Georgia--Athens--Press coverage | University of Georgia | Athens (Ga.) | Clarke County (Ga.) |
| Collection: | WSB-TV Newsfilm Collection |
| Institution: | Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection |
| Contributors: | Digital Library of Georgia | Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection | Civil Rights Digital Library Collection (Digital Library of Georgia) |
| Online Publisher: | Athens, Ga. : Digital Library of Georgia and Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection, University of Georgia Libraries | 2007 |
| Original Material: | 1 clip (about 2 min.): black-and-white, silent ; 16 mm. Original found in the WSB-TV newsfilm collection. |
| Rights and Usage: | WSB-TV newsfilm clip of African American student Charlayne Hunter and other white students walking around campus and a white man speaking to reporters and handing out cards at the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia, 1961 January 16, WSB-TV newsfilm collection, reel 0974, 1:43/03:32, Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection, The University of Georgia Libraries, Athens, Ga, as presented in the Digital Library of Georgia. |
| Related Materials: | Forms part of: Civil Rights Digital Library. |
| Persistent Link to Item: | http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/crdl/id:ugabma_wsbn_43333 |
