A critical examination of racial discrimination in television broadcasting during the civil rights era.

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction: Reconstruction 1
1: Broadcast Foundations 31
2: Consuming Civil Rights
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3: Trouble around the Ponderosa 75
4: Programming/Regulating Whiteness 107
5: Blacking out: Remembering TV and the Sixties
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6: Not Forgetting 174
Appendix: Chronology 197
Notes 205
Bibliography 245
Index 263

Steven D. Classen is Assistant Professor of Communication Studies at California State University, Los Angeles.