Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-258) and index.
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.
Reproduction
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
