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The nicest kids in town : American bandstand, rock 'n' roll, and the struggle for civil rights in 1950s Philadelphia /
Counter to host Dick Clark's claims that he integrated American Bandstand, this book reveals how the first national television program directed at teens discriminated against black youth during its early years and how black teens and civil rights advocates protested this discrimination. The aut...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
[2012]
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| Series: | American crossroads ;
32. |
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| Online Access: | ebrary ebrary Full text available from EBSCO PALCI DDA Purchased Titles 2014 |
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| Summary: |
Counter to host Dick Clark's claims that he integrated American Bandstand, this book reveals how the first national television program directed at teens discriminated against black youth during its early years and how black teens and civil rights advocates protested this discrimination. The author brings together civil rights, rock and roll, television, and the emergence of a youth culture, as he tells how white families around American Bandstand's studio mobilized to maintain all-white neighborhoods and how local school officials reinforced segregation long after Brown vs. Board of Education. |
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| Item Description: |
"The George Gund Foundation imprint in African American studies"--Page before half-title page. |
| Physical Description: |
xi, 294 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-282) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780520272071 0520272072 9780520272088 0520272080 |