The collection contains material about civil rights which was assembled by the Southern Education Reporting Service in its Nashville library. It covers aspects of race relations arising from the U.S. Supreme Court opinion of 1954 which declared segregation in public schools unconstitutional. There are two approaches for accessing these materials. It divides materials under subject headings with designations of reel and frame number. In order to locate uncataloged materials such as newspaper editorials, cartoons and letters to the editor, this index must be used.
Items are cross-indexed by subject, author or title.
Facts on Film is arranged on microfilm in chronological order, according to the designated categories used in the index and the catalog. The Southern Education Reporting Service was a fact-finding agency established by Southern newspaper editors and educators which provided information about developments in education. This library does not have a current subscription to Facts on Film .