2010 Schwartz Prize Winner: Georgia Humanities Council
Civil Rights Digital Library
The Civil Rights Digital Library, or CRDL, is the most ambitious and comprehensive initiative to date to deliver educational content on the civil rights movement via the Web. It promotes an enhanced understanding of the movement through its three principal components:
1. A digital video archive consisting of 30 hours (about 450 clips) of historical news footage that allows viewers to be nearly eyewitnesses to key events of the civil rights movement.
2. A civil rights portal that allows users seamless access to a virtual library of material on the movement from 100 libraries and allied organizations nationwide.
3. Instructional materials, including a parallel site, Freedom on Film (http://www.civilrights.uga.edu), developed to facilitate the use of civil rights video content in teaching and learning environments.
The Civil Rights Digital Library was developed through a collaborative partnership involving the Georgia Humanities Council (through the New Georgia Encyclopedia), the Digital Library of Georgia, the University System of Georgia/GALILEO, the Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Collection of the University of Georgia Libraries, the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Georgia, and Georgia Public Broadcasting.
The CRDL launched in April 2008, and during its first year reported more 300,000 page views. The CRDL has been reviewed positively by a variety of blogs from library, historical, and other educational organizations. The CRDL has also been incorporated into public programs, ranging from teacher training to the television documentary "Andrew Young Presents: How We Got Over: a History of Civil Rights for the Digital Age."
Learn more about the Civil Rights Digital Library:
Schwartz Prize nomination materials
Website: http://www.civilrightslibrary.org