Television News and the Civil Rights Struggle:
The Views in Virginia and Mississippi
The Views in Virginia and Mississippi
William G. Thomas III, University of Virginia
Essay Sections:
Abstract | Introduction
| Print Media and Segregation | Birmingham
and Danville, 1963 | Local Television News and the
Breakdown of Segregation | The March on Washington
and Television News | WLBT and Pro-Segregation TV
| Conclusion | Notes | Bibliography
Select Bibliography of Sources:
Primary Sources
Virginia Center for Digital History, Television News in the Civil Rights Era Project, University of Virginia, WDBJ Television News Collection, WSLS Television News Collection, Robertson Media Center, University of Virginia Library.
The Newsfilm Collection, Mississippi State Archives.
The United Church of Christ, Office of Communication, Mississippi State Archives.
Federal Communications Commission Records, National Archives and Records Administrations, College Park, MD
Newspapers
Richmond Times-Dispatch
Richmond News Leader
Richmond Afro American
Norfolk Journal and Guide
Danville Commercial Appeal
New York Times
Washington Post
Secondary Sources
Badger, Tony. "Fatalism Not Gradualism: Race and the Crisis of Southern Liberalism, 1945-1965," Ward, Brian and Tony Badger, eds. in The Making of Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights Movement , New York: New York University Press, 1996.
Barnouw, Erik. A Tower in Babel. New York: Oxford University Press, 1966.
_____. The Golden Web. New York: Oxford University Press, 1968.
_____. The Image Empire. New York: Oxford University Press, 1970.
_____. Tube of Plenty. New York: Oxford University Press, 1975.
Bramlett-Solomon, Sharon. "Southern v. Northern Newspaper Coverage of the Dime Store Demonstration Movement: A Study of News Play and News Source Diversity," Mass Communications Review 15 (1998).
Branch, Taylor. Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-63. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1988.
Carter, Dan T. The Politics of Rage: George Wallace, the Origins of New Conservativism, and the Transformation of American Politics. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1995.
Chappell, David L. Inside Agitators: White Southerners in the Civil Rights Movement. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994.
_____. A Stone of Hope: Prophetic Religion and the Death of Jim Crow. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004.
Dittmer, John. Local People: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1994.
Duziak, Mary. Cold War Civil Rights: Race and the Image of American Democracy. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000.
Eskew, Glenn. But For Birmingham: The Local and National Movements in the Civil Rights Struggle. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997.
Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years. VHS. WGBH-Boston, PBS Video, 1986.
Fisher, Paul L. and Ralph L. Lowenstein, eds. Race and the News Media. New York: Praeger, 1967.
Graham, Allison. "Remapping Dogpatch: Northern Media on the Southern Circuit," Arkansas Historical Quarterly 56, no. 3 (Autumn 1997).
_____. Framing the South : Hollywood, Television, and Race during the Civil Rights Struggle . Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001.
Jacobs, Ronald N. Race, Media and the Crisis of Civil Society: From Watts to Rodney King. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000.
Keever, Beverly Ann Deepe, Carolyn Martindale, and Mary Ann Weston. U. S. News Coverage of Racial Minorities: A Sourcebook, 1934-1996. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 1997.
Kellner, Douglas. Television and the Crisis of Democracy. Oxford: Westview Press, 1990.
Kneebone, John. Southern Liberal Journalists and the Issue of Race, 1920-1944. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1985.
Layton, Azza Salama. International Politics and Civil Rights Policies in the United States, 1941-1960. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000.
Martindale, Carolyn. The White Press and Black America. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 1986.
Morris, Aldon D. The Origins of the Civil Rights Movement: Black Communities Organizing for Change. New York: Free Press, 1984.
National Symposium on the Media and the Civil Rights Movement. VHS. University of Mississippi, 1987, Center for the Study of Southern Culture. 6 videocassettes.
Savage, Barbara Dianne. Broadcasting Freedom: Radio, War, and the Politics of Race, 1938-1948. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998.
Tatro, Helen Louise. "Local News Coverage of Blacks in Five Deep South Newspapers, 1950-1970," Journalism Abstracts 10 (1972).
Tyson, Timothy B. Radio Free Dixie: Robert F. Williams and the Roots of Black Power. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999.
Ward, Brian, ed. Media, Culture, and the Modern African American Freedom Struggle. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2001.
Whitfield, Stephen J. A Death in the Delta: The Story of Emmett Till. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991.
Virginia Center for Digital History, Television News in the Civil Rights Era Project, University of Virginia, WDBJ Television News Collection, WSLS Television News Collection, Robertson Media Center, University of Virginia Library.
The Newsfilm Collection, Mississippi State Archives.
The United Church of Christ, Office of Communication, Mississippi State Archives.
Federal Communications Commission Records, National Archives and Records Administrations, College Park, MD
Newspapers
Richmond Times-Dispatch
Richmond News Leader
Richmond Afro American
Norfolk Journal and Guide
Danville Commercial Appeal
New York Times
Washington Post
Secondary Sources
Badger, Tony. "Fatalism Not Gradualism: Race and the Crisis of Southern Liberalism, 1945-1965," Ward, Brian and Tony Badger, eds. in The Making of Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights Movement , New York: New York University Press, 1996.
Barnouw, Erik. A Tower in Babel. New York: Oxford University Press, 1966.
_____. The Golden Web. New York: Oxford University Press, 1968.
_____. The Image Empire. New York: Oxford University Press, 1970.
_____. Tube of Plenty. New York: Oxford University Press, 1975.
Bramlett-Solomon, Sharon. "Southern v. Northern Newspaper Coverage of the Dime Store Demonstration Movement: A Study of News Play and News Source Diversity," Mass Communications Review 15 (1998).
Branch, Taylor. Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-63. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1988.
Carter, Dan T. The Politics of Rage: George Wallace, the Origins of New Conservativism, and the Transformation of American Politics. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1995.
Chappell, David L. Inside Agitators: White Southerners in the Civil Rights Movement. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994.
_____. A Stone of Hope: Prophetic Religion and the Death of Jim Crow. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004.
Dittmer, John. Local People: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1994.
Duziak, Mary. Cold War Civil Rights: Race and the Image of American Democracy. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000.
Eskew, Glenn. But For Birmingham: The Local and National Movements in the Civil Rights Struggle. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997.
Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years. VHS. WGBH-Boston, PBS Video, 1986.
Fisher, Paul L. and Ralph L. Lowenstein, eds. Race and the News Media. New York: Praeger, 1967.
Graham, Allison. "Remapping Dogpatch: Northern Media on the Southern Circuit," Arkansas Historical Quarterly 56, no. 3 (Autumn 1997).
_____. Framing the South : Hollywood, Television, and Race during the Civil Rights Struggle . Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001.
Jacobs, Ronald N. Race, Media and the Crisis of Civil Society: From Watts to Rodney King. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000.
Keever, Beverly Ann Deepe, Carolyn Martindale, and Mary Ann Weston. U. S. News Coverage of Racial Minorities: A Sourcebook, 1934-1996. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 1997.
Kellner, Douglas. Television and the Crisis of Democracy. Oxford: Westview Press, 1990.
Kneebone, John. Southern Liberal Journalists and the Issue of Race, 1920-1944. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1985.
Layton, Azza Salama. International Politics and Civil Rights Policies in the United States, 1941-1960. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000.
Martindale, Carolyn. The White Press and Black America. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 1986.
Morris, Aldon D. The Origins of the Civil Rights Movement: Black Communities Organizing for Change. New York: Free Press, 1984.
National Symposium on the Media and the Civil Rights Movement. VHS. University of Mississippi, 1987, Center for the Study of Southern Culture. 6 videocassettes.
Savage, Barbara Dianne. Broadcasting Freedom: Radio, War, and the Politics of Race, 1938-1948. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998.
Tatro, Helen Louise. "Local News Coverage of Blacks in Five Deep South Newspapers, 1950-1970," Journalism Abstracts 10 (1972).
Tyson, Timothy B. Radio Free Dixie: Robert F. Williams and the Roots of Black Power. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999.
Ward, Brian, ed. Media, Culture, and the Modern African American Freedom Struggle. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2001.
Whitfield, Stephen J. A Death in the Delta: The Story of Emmett Till. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991.
Essay Sections:
Abstract | Introduction
| Print Media and Segregation | Birmingham
and Danville, 1963 | Local Television News and the Breakdown of
Segregation | The March on Washington and Television News |
WLBT and Pro-Segregation TV | Conclusion |
Notes | Bibliography
