| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 92.1

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Watching Jim Crow: The Struggles over Mississippi TV, 1955–1969. By Steven D. Classen. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2004. x, 275 pp. Cloth, $74.95, ISBN 0-8223-3329-5. Paper, $21.95, ISBN 0-8223-3341-4.)

Watching Jim Crow is a media history of central Mississippi that focuses on the infamous WLBT-TV station in Jackson, most specifically on the complaints to the Federal Communications Commission made by civil rights activists over the segregationist propaganda and racist "black-outs" that finally prevented the station's relicensing in 1969. In the 1970s under the African American William Dilday, WLBT's programming became radically progressive, but the station retrenched when deregulation contributed to the loss of public interest productions and WLBT became part of a vertically integrated conglomerate.

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