Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Propaganda Tool for Racial Progress? -- Network News in the Civil Rights Era -- 2. The Chosen Instrument of the Revolution? -- 3. Fighting for Equal Time: Segregationists vs. Integrationists -- 4. The March on Washington and a Peek into Racial Utopia -- 5. Selma in the "Glaring Light of Television" -- Civil Rights in Prime-Time Entertainment -- 6. Bringing "Urgent Issues" to the Vast Wasteland: East Side/West Side -- 7. Is This What You Mean by Color TV? Julia -- 8. Prime Time, Good Times -- Epilogue: The Return of Civil Rights Television: The Obama Victory -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- back cover.