PROTESTS ACTIVISM AND CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE 1954 1973
THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT DURING THE 1950S
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Question
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How did television effect the civil rights movement
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It was often discussed on nightly news
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Televised incidents of violence upset Americans not living near protests
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Housewives developed crushes on Martin Luther King after watching his speeches
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Many actors joined the Civil Rights cause
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Television propelled the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s by introducing civil rights campaigns, protests, attacks, and awareness in general onto local and national TV stations.
Detailed explanation-2: -Television provided the American public with a means to witness the struggle for civil rights nearly in real time and led a more informed society to enact social change.
Detailed explanation-3: -It is often suggested that national television news coverage of the civil rights movement helped transform the United States by showing Americans the violence of segregation and the dignity of the African American quest for equal rights.
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