The Race Beat Before WWII Segregation largely ignored i e not on media agenda its natural appropriate have other things to focus on Segregation framed as natural appropriate in mainstream press Gunnar Myrdal An American Dilemma civil rights movement swedish economist in 1930a to do research on us cited by supreme court in 1954 sees how dramatically dif people s lives are b t blacks and whites Reframes segregation as against American principles backs this up with mountains of data Says change will only come if reality of segregation gets attention in press Black Press Segregation high on media agenda framed as anti democratic especially during WWII trying to restore democracy for pple denied ability to vote 1954 Brown v Board of Education Separate but equal no longer constitutional overturned cited that data for gunnar myrdal all evidence that separate is not equal segregated public education Puts segregation onto mainstream media agenda 1955 Emmett Till money mississippi 25 year old boy from chicago visiting relatives in mississippi did not understand the culture of mississippi body returned to mother in chicago open casket 10 000 people came to pay their respects recognized this for the crime that it was wanted pple to c what they had done to her boy wasn t just the crime or photo that got attention but the trial national press framed as outside agitators and communists press highlighted reality of segregation not guilty verdict debating about what kind of pop they should be drinking admitted to it after wanted jet magazine to take pic wanted pple to c black men white women taboo in the south you didn t cross killed him to show every other black person this is a line u dont cross after acquittes given 4 000 to say what happened bc thought they were right coverage of this outside agitator didn t understand our culture got a lot of people paying attention to what was happening the press was critical in the civil rights movement movie salma wants camera there to capture moment ML kings and sclc southern leadership council four step strategy 1 nonviolent demonstrators go onto street less than 2 eligible american registered right to vote 2 racist inc idnf police unleash violence journalists capture results and broadcast on T V 3 Good americans demand federal inventions 4 the administration intervenes and passes voting rights act works on appropriate legislation if they did anything to change any of their rules have to get federal permission overturned by supreme court last year all these journalist esther to capture what happens needs to get sktory out when they see it they will demand action if police not willing to enforce register to vote need to send in the troops eisenhower first president to send in troops to segregate schools violence broke out did hit him rev ct vivian movement encountering evil that has been destroying it depict how the media restricts media coverage lid how he was beater abc hid it from view nighttime marches white dont want to press covering what is happening State of the union address jan 4 1965 police officers pushing back journalists but didn t arrest them like he was hoping teachers march abc news covered it black man representing dallas county national prob every man has the right to vote regardless ban of blacks in montgomery but blacks still went empetus bridge alabama state troopers armes on others side to stop marchers violence broke out forcefully shocking smoke bombs guns this worked bc of the news coverage it got voting rights act passed later that year b c of what people saw abc judgment at nuremberg interrupted that movie w what was happening to our own citizens genius to strategy juxtaposition need cameras they things changed bc lots of people saw it power of king what happened Alabama vs The Times Times v Sullivan Photo Collegenews org Freedom Riders Photos Blackpast org NPR org The March on Washington August 28 1963 Photos NPR org Selma March 7 1965 Bloody Sunday Scenes from Eyes on the Prize gunnar myrdal who is who and why was he significant did research that helped back up the fact that he used his data to show how we had second class citizen living in america s inherently antidemocratic black press able to use it lead to brown vs education verdict before ww2 want a lot of press talking about segregation gunnar Black press filmed figure out whats going out death of emmett till why was it so significant published so widely open casket boy from chicago that visited relatives in the south whistled at her didn t understand the tensions that came w it laddies husband killed hit shot his body left body in river pictures taken how does this lead to brown vs educations allowed people to see how blacks were being treated in the world separations and segregation not equal in the world and then it was outlawed