Revolution Televised.pdf

234 Index
2, 21, 78, 107–8, 149, 206n62;
and TOBA, 12
migration, 13, 33, 123, 130, 141
militancy, 114–15, 121, 136–38
Million Man March, 181
Minor Adjustments, 175
Minow, Newton, 30
minstrelsy, xii, 10–11, 20, 78,
198n26
miscegenation, 87–88
Mission Impossible, 54
Mississippi Burning, 26, 177
model minorioty, 185, 216n28
Mod Squad, The, 54
Mooney, Paul, 167
Motion Picture Association of
America, 114
Moynihan Report, 35–36, 39, 112,
129
MTV, 65, 196n2
Murphy, Eddie, 181
Murrow, Edward R., 25
music: impact of on mainstream
community, 58, 59, 196n2; and
oral culture, 57. See also Soul
Train
NAACP (National Association for
the Advancement of Colored
People), 6, 16, 20, 36, 110,
114–16
National Association of Black
Media Producers, 50
National Association of Broadcasters,
30
National Educational Television
(NET), 41
National Newspaper Publishers
Association, 51–52
Nation of Islam, 34, 38
Nat King Cole Show, 22, 71
Negro Industrial and Economic
Union, 45
NET. See National Educational
Television
network television: attempt to
shape black life, 157; and black
expression, 158; increasing
black agency within, 112; lack
of black participation in, 1, 50,
65, 109; protests over, 49. See
also television news
New Breed Clothing, 44–45
New Frontier, 31
New Negro, 13
news. See television news
Newton, Huey, 46, 158–60,
201n44
Nixon, Richard, 51, 160
Nolan, Lloyd, 115, 119
nostalgia, 30, 32
O’Connor, Carroll, 108
Olympics protest, 24, 48, 202n47
oral culture: and humor, 10; and
radio, 56–58, 204n11; tradition
of, 57, 90, 197n2, 198n29
Outcasts, The, 54
Page, LaWanda, 17, 100
Parent ’Hood, 175
Parker, William, 34, 35, 37
Parks, Rosa, 15, 16, 110
Patterson and Jackson, 14
PBS. See Public Broadcasting System
People Are Funny, 83
Plessy vs. Ferguson, 8
Poitier, Sidney, 4, 48, 59, 198n8
police: buildup of, 43; in Chicago,
132, 135; in Cops, 3, 197n6;
in Los Angeles, 34, 37–39, 94,
125, 162; in South, 187; widespread
problems with, 103,
145–47, 191, 202n45
positive/negative binary, xii, xv, 2,
7, 21, 22