TELEVISION, HISTORY, AND U.S. SOCIAL MOVEMENTS. Television and History Television as eyewitness Television as chronicler Television as historian.

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 as Historian

Television as “Prosthetic Memory” (Alison Landsberg)

Not natural Worn on body Interchangeable,

diverse Useful











Television as Societal Mirror













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.


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


Latinas/os and Spanish Language TV


Latinas/os and Television

English language efforts

Spanish language efforts

TELEVISION, HISTORY, AND U.S. SOCIAL MOVEMENTS. Television and History Television as eyewitness Television as chronicler Television as historian.

Documents

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