The nicest kids in town : American bandstand, rock 'n' roll, and the struggle for civil rights in 1950s Philadelphia /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Delmont, Matthew F.
Corporate Author:	ebrary, Inc
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Berkeley : University of California Press, [2012]
Series:	American crossroads ; 32.
Subjects:	Philadelphia (Pa.) > Race relations > History > 20th century. African Americans > Civil rights > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia > History > 20th century. Segregation > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia > History > 20th century. Civil rights movements > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia > History > 20th century. Minorities on television. Television programs > United States > History. American Bandstand (Television program) Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:

Introduction
Making Philadelphia safe for "WFIL-adelphia": television, housing, and defensive localism in Bandstand's backyard
They shall be heard: local television as a civil rights battleground
The de facto dilemma: fighting segregation in Philadelphia public schools
From Little Rock to Philadelphia: making de facto school segregation a media issue
The rise of rock and roll in Philadelphia: Georgie Woods, Mitch Thomas, and Dick Clark
"They'll be rockin' on Bandstand, in Philadelphia, P.A.": imagining national youth culture on American bandstand
Remembering American bandstand, forgetting segregation
Still boppin' on Bandstand: American dreams, Hairspray, and American bandstand in the 2000s
Conclusion: everybody knows about American bandstand.