The nicest kids in town : American bandstand, rock 'n' roll, and the struggle for civil rights in 1950s Philadelphia
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The nicest kids in town : American bandstand, rock 'n' roll, and the struggle for civil rights in 1950s Philadelphia
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The work The nicest kids in town : American bandstand, rock 'n' roll, and the struggle for civil rights in 1950s Philadelphia represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of San Diego Libraries. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.
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- The nicest kids in town : American bandstand, rock 'n' roll, and the struggle for civil rights in 1950s Philadelphia
- Title remainder
- American bandstand, rock 'n' roll, and the struggle for civil rights in 1950s Philadelphia
- Statement of responsibility
- Matthew F. Delmont
- Title variation
- American bandstand, rock 'n' roll, and the struggle for civil rights in 1950s Philadelphia
- Subject
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- African Americans -- Civil rights
- African Americans -- Civil rights -- Pennsylvania | Philadelphia -- History -- 20th century
- American Bandstand (Television program)
- American Bandstand (Television program)
- Civil rights movements
- Civil rights movements -- Pennsylvania | Philadelphia -- History -- 20th century
- Electronic books
- HISTORY -- United States -- General
- History
- Minorities on television
- Minorities on television
- PERFORMING ARTS -- Television | History & Criticism
- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
- Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Race relations | History -- 20th century
- Race relations
- Segregation
- Segregation -- Pennsylvania | Philadelphia -- History -- 20th century
- 1900-1999
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "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. Counter to host Dick Clark's claims that he integrated American Bandstand, this book reveals how the first national television program directed at teens discriminated against black youth during its early years and how black teens and civil rights advocates protested this discrimination. Matthew F. Delmont brings together major themes in American history-civil rights, rock and roll, television, and the emergence of a youth culture-as he tells how white families around American Bandstand's studio mobilized to maintain all-white neighborhoods and how local school officials reinforced segregation long after Brown vs. Board of Education. The Nicest Kids in Town powerfully illustrates how national issues and history have their roots in local situations, and how nostalgic representations of the past, like the musical film Hairspray, based on the American Bandstand era, can work as impediments to progress in the present."--
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- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
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- bibliography
- Series statement
- American crossroads
- Series volume
- 32
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