University of Virginia Library WSLS-TV. Archive online: http://news.virginia.edu/content/uva-library-launches-online-archive-historical-tv-news-footage
Access historic news clips and news transcripts, currently 3,600 news clips items covering 1951-1971.
These years cover the civil rights movement and desegregation as well as feminism and Vietnam.
An online exhibit page has a collection of themed items including news clips and scripts related to the desegregation of public schools, the Cold War, “Scenes of Mid-20th Century America” and other topics.
If you are interested in viewing historic moving images a great site for the UK is: British Pathe newsreel which covers the full range of social and economic history topics.
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