The story told in Watching Jim Crow has significant implications today, not least because the 1996 Federal Communications Act effectively undid many of the hard-won reforms achieved by activists - including those whose stories Classen relates here.
The Struggles over Mississippi TV, 1955-1969
Paperback
Publication Date: 12/03/2004
A critical examination of racial discrimination in television broadcasting during the civil rights era In the early 1960s, whenever the Today Show discussed integration, WLBT-TV, the NBC affiliate in Jackson, Mississippi, cut away to local news after announcing that the Today Show content was "network news...represent[ing] the views of the northern press." This was only one part of a larger effort by WLBT and other local stations to keep African Americans off Jackson's television screens. Watching Jim Crow presents the vivid story of the successful struggles of African Americans to achieve representation in the TV programming of Jackson, a city many considered one of the strongest bastions of Jim Crow segregation. Steven D. Classen provides a detailed social history of media activism and communications policy during the Civil Rights era. He focuses on the years between 1955 - when Medgar Evers and the NAACP began urging the two local stations, WLBT and WJTV, to stop censoring African Americans and discussions of integration from their programming - and 1969, when the U.S. Court of Appeals issued a landmark decision denying WLBT renewal of its operating license.
The story told in Watching Jim Crow has significant implications today, not least because the 1996 Federal Communications Act effectively undid many of the hard-won reforms achieved by activists - including those whose stories Classen relates here.
The story told in Watching Jim Crow has significant implications today, not least because the 1996 Federal Communications Act effectively undid many of the hard-won reforms achieved by activists - including those whose stories Classen relates here.
- ISBN:
- 9780822333418
- 9780822333418
- Category:
- Television
- Format:
- Paperback
- Publication Date:
- 12-03-2004
- Language:
- English
- Publisher:
- Duke University Press
- Country of origin:
- United States
- Pages:
- 288
- Dimensions (mm):
- 216x140x19mm
- Weight:
- 0.34kg
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