Author: Ian Rocksborough-Smith File Type: pdf In civil-rights-era Chicago, a dedicated group of black activists, educators, and organizations employed black public history as more than cultural activism. Their work and vision energized a black public history movement that promoted political progress in the crucial time between World War II and the onset of the Cold War. Ian Rocksborough-Smiths meticulous research and adept storytelling provide the first in-depth look at how these committed individuals leveraged Chicagos black public history. Their goal to engage with the struggle for racial equality. Rocksborough-Smith shows teachers working to advance curriculum reform in public schools, while well-known activists Margaret and Charles Burroughs pushed for greater recognition of black history by founding the DuSable Museum of African American History. Organizations like the Afro-American Heritage Association, meanwhile, used black public history work to connect radical politics and nationalism. Together, these people and their projects advanced important ideas about race, citizenship, education, and intellectual labor that paralleled the shifting terrain of mid-twentieth century civil rights.

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Author: Sara K. Eskridge File Type: pdf Historian Sara Eskridge examines televisions rural comedy boom in the 1960s and the political, social, and economic factors that made these shows a perfect fit for CBS. The network, nicknamed the Communist Broadcasting System during the Red Scare of the 1940s, saw its image hurt again in the 1950s with the quiz show scandals and a campaign against violence in westerns. When a rival network introduced rural-themed programs to cater to the growing southern market, CBS latched onto the trend and soon reestablished itself as the Country Broadcasting System. Its rural comedies dominated the ratings throughout the decade, attracting viewers from all parts of the country. With fascinating discussions of The Andy Griffith Show, The Beverly Hillbillies, Petticoat Junction, and other shows, Eskridge reveals how the southern image was used to both entertain and reassure Americans in the turbulent 1960s. **Review A well-researched and insightful book. Its broadcast history that illuminates American history.Mary Ann Watson, author of Defining Visions Television and the American Experience in the20th Century Rube Tube is a lucid, well-argued account of CBSs programming strategies in the early days of television. The author provides context for understanding the choices and motivations behind programs that have become part of our shared cultural experience.Joanna Morreale, editor of Critiquing the SitcomA Reader Sara Eskridge has written a detailed and illuminating study of television programming in the network-broadcast era, very insightfully focused through the construction and use of rural America as a political and social wedge in the network image competition and ratings wars that defined the first quarter century of the television medium. It is highly recommended to all students of the medium, especially those interested on the ways in which television shapes and employs national narratives.Alan Nadel, author of Television in Black-and-White America and Demographic Angst Cultural Narratives and American Films of the 1950s Rube Tube thoroughly explores the parade of Southern-based rural sitcoms on CBS in the 1960s that dominated the ratings and left a lasting imprint on the televised landscape. Extending well beyond the shows themselves, Eskridge thoughtfully articulates what the rise and fall of these programs reveal about the eras shifting racial and political perceptions and realities, and how their demise marked a fundamental reimagining of the television audience. Anyone interested in 1960s television and culture and the enduring appeal of the televised rural Southerner will find this carefully researched and engagingly written book a valuable read.Anthony Harkins, Western Kentucky University and author of Hillbilly A Cultural History of an American Icon Book Description Historian Sara Eskridge examines televisions rural comedy boom in the 1960s and the political, social, and economic factors that made these shows a perfect fit for CBS. The network, nicknamed the Communist Broadcasting System during the Red Scare of the 1940s, saw its image hurt again in the 1950s with the quiz show scandals and a campaign against violence in westerns. When a rival network introduced rural-themed programs to cater to the growing southern market, CBS latched onto the trend and soon reestablished itself as the Country Broadcasting System. Its rural comedies dominated the ratings throughout the decade, attracting viewers from all parts of the country. With fascinating discussions of The Andy Griffith Show, The Beverly Hillbillies, Petticoat Junction, and other shows, Eskridge reveals how the southern image was used to both entertain and reassure Americans in the turbulent 1960s.

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