WGBH Educational Foundation

The Media Library of the WGBH Educational Foundation will partner with the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute (BCRI) and Washington University to produce a prototype of a digital library collection focused on the Civil Rights Movement in the United States. This project will develop broadband solutions to the challenge of matching rich media archives with educational needs. Building on WGBH's Teachers’ Domain online platform (www.teachersdomain.org), this initiative will feature multimedia assets of all three organizations, highlighted by extensive oral histories recorded by BCRI, the encyclopedic resources of the Henry Hampton Collection housed within the Media and Film Archive at Washington University, and broadcasts and video programming at WGBH. The archives include primary source interviews, dramatic recreations, and historical footage and supporting teacher guides and companion Web sites that significantly extend their educational impact.