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Race riots

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:

"Augusta Georgia Race Riots"

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: MSS-223
Scope and Contents

This collection is comprised of 44 typed pages about the Race Riots in Augusta Ga., written by William Winn in 1970.

Dates: Created: 1970; Other: Date acquired: 02/01/1995

Augusta Riots clippings

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: MSS-329
Dates: Other: Dummy Date

Channel 6 Augusta Riots footage

 Collection — Object 1
Identifier: MSS-258
Scope and Contents

Footage runs for 2 minutes and 11 seconds.  Material is retrospective coverage of the riots made within a week of the occurrence of the event.  Footage includes scenes of the protestors assembling at the Augusta Richmond County Municipal Building, scenes of peace-keeping personal and scenes of destroyed buildings.  There is audio of James Brown discussing the cause of the riot accompanied by a still photograph.

Dates: Created: 1970; Other: Date acquired: 10/01/2006

Patrick Timmons Augusta riots oral histories

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: IA-09-01-001
Abstract

This collection consists of oral histories on the 1970 Augusta riots collected by Patrick Timmons' Historical Research Methods Class.

Dates: Other: Dummy Date

Polylogue newspapers

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: MSS-014
Scope and Contents

This collection includes two issues of Polylogue: Vol. 1 (7), 20 July 1970, and  Vol. 1(9), September, 1970.  These issues report on the Augusta Riot and the Charles Oatman murder.

Dates: Created: 1970-1970; Other: Date acquired: 06/03/1981

Sea Stachura Augusta riot oral histories

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-378
Abstract

Histories were recorded as part of a larger project which remains unfinished. The work did give rise to a series of public discussions "Help Recover History: Let's Talk About the 1970 Riot. Sea Stachura was moderator and the panel consisted of riot witnesses and a university professor

Dates: Created: -2013; Other: Date acquired: 02/14/2017