Project Overview 

Study of local race relations within broader historical context of civil rights movement.  

Goals: Generate short documentary film we can incorporate into our prototype Remixing Rural Texas: Local Texts, Global Contexts, under development now and funded, in part, through the National Endowment for the Humanities Digital Humanities grant.  

The project team is delighted to be working with RTV to create a 30 minute documentary that includes three segments likely to be most relevant to our needs for the RRT prototype. We are happy to help, developing scripts that build from the exisiting archival footage and lining up opportunities for the collection of new footage and relevant artifacts. 

Requests

1. Request students make extensive use of existing archives, where possible. First. The grant identifies these projects as remix
2. Request that CLiC be involved with contacts for the development of new footage, especially with respect to interviews collected. 
3. Request that footage recorded be donated to the Gee Library's Special Collections and the Northeast Texas Digital Collections. Anything from the cutting room floor is likely to be of use to future researchers, videographers, and journalists. 
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