Eyewitnesses to the Movement: Black, White, and Multiracial Media in Civil Rights-Era North Carolina

FAIN: RZ-51485-12

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, NC 27599-1350)
Seth M. Kotch (Project Director: December 2011 to July 2016)
Joshua Clark Davis (Co Project Director: December 2011 to July 2016)

Collection, digitization, and online publication of oral histories related to media and civil rights in North Carolina in the 1970s. (18 months)

"Eyewitnesses to the Movement" will study the media environment in the wake of the civil rights movement of the 1960s by conducting oral history and archival research on a variety of radio stations, television stations, and newspapers in 1970s North Carolina. The project includes extensive background research on the television station WTVD, the radio stations WVSP and WAFR, the newspapers The Carolina Times and The Carolinian, and more. Researchers will conduct approximately 50 digital oral history interviews, that will be published online with robust interpretive content.

Associated Products

Media and the Movement: Journalism, Civil Rights, and Black Power in the American South (Web Resource)
Title: Media and the Movement: Journalism, Civil Rights, and Black Power in the American South
Author: Seth Kotch
Abstract: The website is a blog with information about the work of the project, which is conducting oral interviews of those involved in North Carolina media, principally radio, during the time of the Civil Rights Movement
Year: 2014
Primary URL: http://mediaandthemovement.unc.edu/about/
Primary URL Description: Project website

Media and the Movement (Blog Post)
Title: Media and the Movement
Author: Josh Davis
Author: Seth Kotch
Abstract: This blog post entry signifies the ongoing blogging for the project, which will continue into the future focused on new discoveries from our radio digitization project.
Date: 10/1/2015
Primary URL: http://mediaandthemovement.unc.edu
Primary URL Description: Our Media and the Movement blog.
Website: Media and the Movement.

Bull City Soul (Exhibition)
Title: Bull City Soul
Curator: Josh Davis
Abstract: Soul music grew out of black churches and high school band rooms. Young performers, inspired by a generation of older musicians rooted in gospel, blues, and jazz, developed a new style of music. Local radio and television exposed listeners to soul, and aspiring stars honed their craft in front of live audiences at the city’s nightclubs. Even the Civil Rights and Black Power movements encouraged this music’s rise. The Media and the Movement portion of this online exhibition illustrates the role of a number of our interviewees in these developments.
Year: 2014
Primary URL: http://www.bullcitysoul.org/on-the-air.html
Primary URL Description: Bull City Soul URL

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