Equal Time

Television and the Civil Rights Movement

Datos Bibliográficos

ID20003836
AutoresAniko Bodroghkozy (autor de correspondencia)
Año2012
Páginas265
Fecha de publicación2012-02-01
Open AccessNo
TipoBOOK
RevistaEqual time (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditorialUniversity of Illinois Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.5406/illinois/9780252036682.001.0001
OpenAlexW4250783659
Open LibraryOL25005112M
ISBN9780252036682
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas19

This book explores the crucial role of network television in reconfiguring new attitudes in race relations during the civil rights movement. Due to widespread coverage, the civil rights revolution quickly became the United States' first televised major domestic news story. This important medium unmistakably influenced the ongoing movement for African American empowerment, desegregation, and equality. The book brings to the foreground television news treatment of now-famous civil rights events including the 1965 Selma voting rights campaign, integration riots at the University of Mississippi, and the March on Washington, including Martin Luther King's “I Have a Dream” speech. It also examines the most high-profile and controversial television series of the era to feature African American actors— East Side/West Side , Julia , and Good Times —to reveal how entertainment programmers sought to represent a rapidly shifting consensus on what “blackness” and “whiteness” meant and how they now fit together

Art · Civil rights · Desegregation · Dream · Empowerment · Entertainment · Media studies · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Voting · White (mutation) · American Political and Social Dynamics · History · Law · Media Studies and Communication · Race, History, and American Society · 20th century · African Americans in television broadcasting · African Americans on television · Civil rights movements · Influence · Political aspects · Race relations on television · Television · Television and politics · Television broadcasting · Television broadcasting of news · united states