Media's Effect On The Civil Rights Movement

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To conclude, the media has shown numerous ways that effected the Civil Rights Movement. If the media was not in full effect certain events would not have been known or had any national response, because no one would have been informed on these important events. The fact that people were physically seeing people being abused and dogs attacking others, catapulted it into the national front. It informed the entire country of the inequality and anger in the South and television and radios gave the people more public awareness of what was going on around them. Lastly, the medias effect on the Civil Rights Movement gave exposer to violence happening.

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