Watching Jim Crow: The Struggles over Mississippi TV, 1955-1969

by Steven D. Classen

Book Overview

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 and integrationists off Jackson's television screens. Watching Jim Crow...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822333414
• ISBN13: 9780822333418
• Release Date: March 2004
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"