Equal time [electronic resource] : television and the civil rights movement / Aniko Bodroghkozy.

By: Bodroghkozy, Aniko, 1960-Contributor(s): ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextSeries: History of communicationPublication details: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2012Description: x, 265 p. : illISBN: 9780252093784 (electronic bk.)Subject(s): Television and politics -- United States | Television broadcasting of news -- Political aspects -- United States | African Americans on television | Race relations on television | African Americans in television broadcasting -- History -- 20th century | Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century | Television broadcasting -- United States -- InfluenceGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 302.23089/96073 LOC classification: PN1992.6 | .B58 2012Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
Introduction -- Propaganda tool for racial progress? -- Network news in the civil rights years. The chosen instrument of the revolution? -- Fighting for equal time: segregationists vs. integrationists -- The March on Washington and a peek into racial utopia -- Selma in the "glaring light of television" -- Civil Rights in prime time entertainment. Bringing "urgent issues" to the vast wasteland: East side/West side -- Is this what you mean by color tv?: Julia -- Prime time, Good times -- Epilogue: the return of civil rights television: the Obama victory.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-258) and index.

Introduction -- Propaganda tool for racial progress? -- Network news in the civil rights years. The chosen instrument of the revolution? -- Fighting for equal time: segregationists vs. integrationists -- The March on Washington and a peek into racial utopia -- Selma in the "glaring light of television" -- Civil Rights in prime time entertainment. Bringing "urgent issues" to the vast wasteland: East side/West side -- Is this what you mean by color tv?: Julia -- Prime time, Good times -- Epilogue: the return of civil rights television: the Obama victory.

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