TY - BOOK ID - 77885988 TI - The nicest kids in town PY - 2012 SN - 128011150X 9786613520692 0520951603 0520272080 9780520272088 9781280111501 9780520951600 9780520272071 9780520272088 0520272072 6613520691 PB - Berkeley University of California Press DB - UniCat KW - African Americans - Civil rights - Pennsylvania - Philadelphia - History - 20th century. KW - African Americans -- Civil rights -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History -- 20th century. KW - American Bandstand (Television program). KW - Civil rights movements - Pennsylvania - Philadelphia - History - 20th century. KW - Civil rights movements -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History -- 20th century. KW - Minorities on television. KW - Philadelphia (Pa.) - Race relations - History - 20th century. KW - Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century. KW - Segregation - Pennsylvania - Philadelphia - History - 20th century. KW - Segregation -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History -- 20th century. KW - African Americans KW - Segregation KW - Civil rights movements KW - Minorities on television KW - Minorities in television KW - Television KW - Civil liberation movements KW - Liberation movements (Civil rights) KW - Protest movements (Civil rights) KW - Human rights movements KW - Desegregation KW - Race discrimination KW - Minorities KW - Afro-Americans KW - Black Americans KW - Colored people (United States) KW - Negroes KW - Africans KW - Ethnology KW - Blacks KW - Civil rights KW - History KW - American Bandstand (Television program) KW - Bandstand (Television program : Burbank, Calif.) KW - Philadelphia (Pa.) KW - Philadelphie (Pa.) KW - Filadelfia (Pa.) KW - Filadelʹfii︠a︡ (Pa.) KW - Филадельфия (Pa.) KW - Philly (Pa.) KW - City of Philadelphia (Pa.) KW - Lower Dublin (Pa. : Township) KW - Philadelphia County (Pa.) KW - Race relations KW - Black people KW - Filadelfiyah (Pa.) KW - פילדלפיה (Pa.) KW - 1950s america. KW - 1950s us history. KW - 20th century america. KW - 20th century entertainment. KW - african american history. KW - american bandstand era. KW - american civil rights movement. KW - american segregation. KW - american studies. KW - black history. KW - brown vs board of education. KW - color discrimination. KW - entertainment and african americans. KW - entertainment industry. KW - hairspray musical. KW - history of race and ethnicity. KW - history of television. KW - minority studies. KW - philadelphia civil rights. KW - segregation and entertainment. KW - segregation and television. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77885988 AB - 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. Counter to host Dick Clark's claims that he integrated American Bandstand, this book reveals how the first national television program directed at teens discriminated against black youth during its early years and how black teens and civil rights advocates protested this discrimination. Matthew F. Delmont brings together major themes in American history-civil rights, rock and roll, television, and the emergence of a youth culture-as he tells how white families around American Bandstand's studio mobilized to maintain all-white neighborhoods and how local school officials reinforced segregation long after Brown vs. Board of Education. The Nicest Kids in Town powerfully illustrates how national issues and history have their roots in local situations, and how nostalgic representations of the past, like the musical film Hairspray, based on the American Bandstand era, can work as impediments to progress in the present. ER -