Digitization is changing the way we think about archives.  The newly launched Civil Rights Digital Library is on the leading edge of this movement.  For many years libraries and institutions across the country have had extensive collections of papers, oral histories, videos and photographs illuminating the modern Civil Rights Movement, but accessing them required going to those physical spots or visiting each website.  The fine folks at the University of Georgia have developed a national database of these holdings in one easy to use website.

Here is the new website. 

The CRDL features a collection of unedited news film from the WSB (Atlanta) and WALB (Albany, Ga.) television archives held by the Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection at the University of Georgia Libraries.

The CRDL will continue to expand and is a major step towards wide accessibility of these materials for study and understanding. 

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