The Nicest Kids in Town: American Bandstand, Rock 'n' Roll, and the Struggle for Civil Rights in 1950s Philadelphia - American Crossroads - Matthew F. Delmont - Books - University of California Press - 9780520272071 - February 22, 2012
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The Nicest Kids in Town: American Bandstand, Rock 'n' Roll, and the Struggle for Civil Rights in 1950s Philadelphia - American Crossroads

Matthew F. Delmont

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The Nicest Kids in Town: American Bandstand, Rock 'n' Roll, and the Struggle for Civil Rights in 1950s Philadelphia - American Crossroads

"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. This book reveals how the program directed at teens discriminated against black youth and how black teens and civil rights advocates protested this discrimination.


312 pages, 27 b/w photographs

Media Books     Hardcover Book   (Book with hard spine and cover)
Released February 22, 2012
ISBN13 9780520272071
Publishers University of California Press
Pages 312
Dimensions 227 × 152 × 24 mm   ·   534 g

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