Museum of TV and Radio

The Paley Center for Media will digitize and catalog approximately 2,500 items from its collection pertaining to African American history. The collection holds rare and at-risk television media and historic programming featuring figures such as Nat King Cole, Bayard Rustin, Bernard Shaw, Toni Morrison, Congresswoman Barbara Jordan, and Oprah Winfrey. The Paley Center for Media will work with multiple vendors to preserve and digitize the collection. Throughout the project, staff will maintain associated collection metadata. Once digitized, these materials will be used by the Paley education staff for its K-12 media education program and for public exhibits.