Keep The Dream Alive!
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A great man once said, "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character." That man was Martin Luther King Jr. Unfortunately racism's ugly face still exists in our society today in many forms. But it is because of people like Martin Luther King Jr. and the thousands that marched in Washington in 1963 and the media for exposing the atrocities against African Americans.
Martin Luther King Jr. was just one of the many civil rights activists whose voice was heard throughout the movement. The campaign against racism via news reporting on television beganin the late 1950's and although many southerners did not care for reporters exposing the truth, the truth had to be told. On that day when he gave his famous speech the images that played on television sets all around the country showed thecourage of thousands of people marching for equal rights and for this reason became known as the 'television revolution'. However, racial hatred still ran deep in the south and back in Birmingham there was a bombing at a church that killed four little girls and maimed 20 more. The Ku Klux Klan was to blame for this atrocity. This terrible day was not going to discourage the African American nation from pursuing the realization of their civil liberties and freedoms that make America what they are. In Selma they marched peacefully and again were met with uncompromising police brutality and many were injured and killed. Some of the most startling images were of Police beating helpless people mercilessly and letting attack dog assault these people marching peacefully. Through these reports and televised horrors the nation became aware and could not any long look away from the brutal racism that segregated African Americans for so long
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"We preach freedom around the world, and we mean it, and we cherish our freedom here at home, but are we to say to the world, and much more importantly, to each other that this is the land of the free except for the Negroes; that we have no second-class citizens except Negroes; that we have no class or caste system, no ghettoes, no master race except with respect to Negroes?"
- John F. Kennedy, proposal for Civil Rights legislation, 1963
This chapter really reaffirms that the power maintained by the press and especially media like television is unparalleled by any other in the U.S. It truly is amazing how many people were captivated by the television, even the government and the president needed to see these things first hand in order to do something about. Once those images played Kennedy had no choice but to act promptly and without them the civil rights laws wouldn't have been set in motion nearly as fast. Even though I personally don' watch a lot of television we definitely do have to thank the networks for what they sacrificed and went through in order to capture the images that changed American history.
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"We preach freedom around the world, and we mean it, and we cherish our freedom here at home, but are we to say to the world, and much more importantly, to each other that this is the land of the free except for the Negroes; that we have no second-class citizens except Negroes; that we have no class or caste system, no ghettoes, no master race except with respect to Negroes?"
- John F. Kennedy, proposal for Civil Rights legislation, 1963
This chapter really reaffirms that the power maintained by the press and especially media like television is unparalleled by any other in the U.S. It truly is amazing how many people were captivated by the television, even the government and the president needed to see these things first hand in order to do something about. Once those images played Kennedy had no choice but to act promptly and without them the civil rights laws wouldn't have been set in motion nearly as fast. Even though I personally don' watch a lot of television we definitely do have to thank the networks for what they sacrificed and went through in order to capture the images that changed American history.
Author:Unknown
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vitqaJ7VKqQ&feature=related
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