Equal time [electronic resource] : television and the civil rights movement / Aniko Bodroghkozy.
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TextSeries: History of communicationPublication details: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2012.Description: x, 265 p. : illSubject(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 -- Influence
- 302.23089/96073 23
- PN1992.6 .B58 2012
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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.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.