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TELEVISION, HISTORY, AND U.S. SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
Television and History
Television as eyewitness
Television as chronicler
Television as historian
Television as societal mirror
Television as target
Television as Eyewitness
Civil rights and newscasts
Sympathy for integrationists
White segregationists as “Other,” deviant
White southern moderate Leaders of civil rights
organizations, especially MLK
Worthy African American subjects
Emphasis on interracial composition of movement
Civil rights and newscasts: omissions African American
activists Heterogeneity of
movement Equivalent
mourning for African American victims
Television and History
Television as eyewitness
Television as chronicler
Television as historian
Television as societal mirror
Television as target
Television as Historian
Television as “Prosthetic Memory” (Alison Landsberg)
Not natural Worn on body Interchangeable,
diverse Useful
Television as Historian
Television as Historian
Television as Historian
Television as Historian
Television and History
Television as eyewitness
Television as chronicler
Television as historian
Television as societal mirror
Television as target
Television as Societal Mirror
Television as Societal Mirror
Television as Societal Mirror
Television as Societal Mirror
Television as Societal Mirror
Television as Societal Mirror
Television as Societal Mirror
Television and History
Television as eyewitness
Television as chronicler
Television as historian
Television as societal mirror
Television as target
T.H. Marshall, Citizenship and Social Class
Civil rights Political rights Social Rights
Amos ‘n’ Andy
Television as Target
Amos ‘n’ Andy
WLBT-TV, Jackson, Miss.
Television as Target
WLBT, United Church of Christ v. FCC
History of discriminatory programming practices
Everett Parker, RLT Smith, Aaron Henry United Church of Christ v. FCC (1966) Standing, “representative” and
“responsible”
Kerner Report
Television as Target
Latinas/os and Spanish Language TV
Television as Target
Latinas/os and Television
English language efforts
Spanish language efforts