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The Nicest Kids in Town: American Bandstand, Rock 'n' Roll, and the Struggle for Civil Rights in 1950s Philadelphia - American Crossroads
Matthew F. Delmont
The Nicest Kids in Town: American Bandstand, Rock 'n' Roll, and the Struggle for Civil Rights in 1950s Philadelphia - American Crossroads
Matthew F. Delmont
"American Bandstand", one of the most popular television shows ever, broadcast from Philadelphia in the late fifties, a time when that city had become a battleground for civil rights. This book reveals how the program directed at teens discriminated against black youth and how black teens and civil rights advocates protested this discrimination.
312 pages, 27 b/w photographs
Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
Released | February 22, 2012 |
ISBN13 | 9780520272071 |
Publishers | University of California Press |
Pages | 312 |
Dimensions | 227 × 152 × 24 mm · 534 g |
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