Bodroghkozy, Aniko, 1960-

Equal time television and the civil rights movement / [electronic resource] : Aniko Bodroghkozy. - Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2012. - x, 265 p. : ill. - The history of communication . - History of communication. .

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.


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

9780252093784 (electronic bk.)




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--History--United States--20th century.
Television broadcasting--Influence.--United States


Electronic books.

PN1992.6 / .B58 2012

302.23089/96073