Television's Effect On The Civil Rights Movement

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violence that happened worldwide.
Furthermore, television and radios made a significant effect on the civil rights movement in the sense that they gave the people public awareness. This let people to become more aware about things that were happening around them. Even though television was a new invention in the 1950s and developed in the of the civil rights movement, it brought huge success to bringing people top stories. According to the news star, local television news did not only get reports on events, but it also leaned a hand on the others to construct visual narrative for the viewers. It definitely helped to get the message across to people of the hurt that African Americans were put through. In Birmingham, Martin Luther king, Jr.,

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