{"product_id":"watching-jim-crow-steven-d-classen-9780822333418","title":"Watching Jim Crow: The Struggles over Mississippi TV, 1955-1969","description":"In the early 1960s, whenever the \u003ci\u003eToday Show\u003c\/i\u003e discussed integration, wlbt-tv, the nbc affiliate in Jackson, Mississippi, cut away to local news after announcing that the \u003ci\u003eToday Show\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003ci\u003eWatching Jim Crow\u003c\/i\u003e 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-and 1969, when the U.S. Court of Appeals issued a landmark decision denying wlbt renewal of its operating license.\u003cp\u003eDuring the 1990s, Classen conducted extensive interviews with more than two dozen African Americans living in Jackson, several of whom, decades earlier, had fought to integrate television programming. He draws on these interviews not only to illuminate their perceptions-of the civil rights movement, what they accomplished, and the present as compared with the past-but also to reveal the inadequate representation of their viewpoints in the legal proceedings surrounding wlbt's licensing. The story told in \u003ci\u003eWatching Jim Crow\u003c\/i\u003e has significant implications today, not least because the Telecommunications Act of 1996 effectively undid many of the hard-won reforms achieved by activists-including those whose stories Classen relates here.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Steven D. Classen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0822333414\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780822333418\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Duke University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/12\/2004\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.74lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.54h x 5.48w x 0.68d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eUniv PR Books for Public Libry\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/01\/2005 pg. 20 - Recommended\/Special Interest\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBlack Issues Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/01\/2004 pg. 48\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/01\/2004 pg. 720","brand":"Steven D. Classen","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47637154070783,"sku":"9780822333418","price":27.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_f10b76c6-61b9-473e-b142-b5575ed3499d.jpg?v=1765114272","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/watching-jim-crow-steven-d-classen-9780822333418","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}