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The 1960s saw rising protests and a string of law reforms as the civil rights movement gained mom... more The 1960s saw rising protests and a string of law reforms as the civil rights movement gained momentum. During the 1960s, America was also at war in Vietnam against the communists and "Civil rights, antipoverty, and antiwar activists joined a cacophony of protest for social change." 1 The rise of countercultures and the civil rights movement in particular, meant that African-American "struggles received voluminous attention in news," 2 but, Boyd explains that in prime-time entertainment programming, […] American audiences saw a mostly whitewashed world, with the dramas and sitcoms of the mid-50s and the mid-60s rarely featuring non-white characters. 3

The 1960s saw rising protests and a string of law reforms as the civil rights movement gained mom... more The 1960s saw rising protests and a string of law reforms as the civil rights movement gained momentum. During the 1960s, America was also at war in Vietnam against the communists and "Civil rights, antipoverty, and antiwar activists joined a cacophony of protest for social change." 1 The rise of countercultures and the civil rights movement in particular, meant that African-American "struggles received voluminous attention in news," 2 but, Boyd explains that in prime-time entertainment programming, […] American audiences saw a mostly whitewashed world, with the dramas and sitcoms of the mid-50s and the mid-60s rarely featuring non-white characters. 3

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