Martin Luther King Jr. delivered a stirring speech on August 28, 1963, during a civil rights march in Washington, D.C. The electrifying speech became known as "I Have a Dream" and was carried live by TV stations around the nation.
According to your reading in Topic 2, how did televised events like King’s speech impact the civil rights movement of the 1960s?
Press coverage on television was used as a way to present both sides of the issue, and television became a platform for education.
What was seen on television, including violence toward protestors, supplanted what was written in newspapers or heard on radio and shifted opinions in favor of an egalitarian society.
The national programming affiliations of local television stations allowed people to see and learn about parts of the country they had never been to before.
Television allowed for companies that supported the civil rights movement to advertise across the nation and gave them more exposure and power.