Equal time : television and the civil rights movement / Aniko Bodroghkozy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bodroghkozy, Aniko, 1960-

Series:

History of communication.

The history of communication

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Television and politics--United States.

Television and politics.

Television broadcasting of news--Political aspects--United States.

Television broadcasting of news.

African Americans on television.

Race relations on television.

African Americans in television broadcasting--History--20th century.

African Americans in television broadcasting.

Civil rights movements--United States--History--20th century.

Civil rights movements.

Television broadcasting--United States--Influence.

Television broadcasting.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (282 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This work explores the crucial role of network television in reconfiguring new attitudes in race relations during the civil rights movement. The book provides an analysis which makes us think about the relationship between the media and the civil rights movement.

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-258) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780252093784

025209378X

9781283992503

1283992507

OCLC:

826684853