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Equal time [electronic resource] : television and the civil rights movement / Aniko Bodroghkozy.

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Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2012.

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Location	Call No.	Status	Notes
Libraries Electronic Books	ELECTRONIC BOOK-Ebook Central Academic Complete	AVAIL. ONLINE

Description	x, 265 p. : ill.
Series	History of communication.
Bibliography	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.
Subject	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.
Added Author	ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN	9780252036682 (hardcover alk. paper)
	9780252093784 (e-book)
OCLC #	EBC3414219

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