Equal time
Subtitle: television and the civil rights movement
By: Aniko Bodroghkozy
Series: The history of communication
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Urbana
Language: eng
Number of pages: 265
ISBN-13: 9780252036682; 9780252093784
Subjects: Television broadcasting; Television broadcasting of news; United States; African Americans in television broadcasting; Civil rights movements; Race relations on television; African Americans on television; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Propaganda tool for racial progress?; title: Network news in the civil rights years. The chosen instrument of the revolution?; title: Fighting for equal time: segregationists vs. integrationists; title: The March on Washington and a peek into racial utopia; title: Selma in the "glaring light of television"; title: Civil Rights in prime time entertainment. Bringing "urgent issues" to the vast wasteland: East side/West side; title: Is this what you mean by color tv?: Julia; title: Prime time, Good times; title: Epilogue: the return of civil rights television: the Obama victory.