The Civil Rights Movement

Television news has done a great job to awaken American people about the realities of black oppression in the south, and also television news pushed the Civil Rights Movement into the American consciousness and into the national agenda. Television news presented its audiences with vivid images of African Americans being beaten and brutalized by white American people rather than describing how the brutal events took place. Television audiences could see live coverage of the Civil Rights Movement and how policemen misused their powers to punish the peaceful demonstrators in Birmingham. The power of images has aroused strong feeling about the equal rights among all American people.
There is an old saying that “a picture is worth a thousand words”, that truth has used by the television news to cover every single brutal treatment that African Americans had received. Every image of brutal scenes and demonstrations has delivered to audiences’ TV screen, and it made the crisis clear in the whole country. Without television news’s coverage of the crisis, the Civil Rights Movement wouldn’t occur. Seeing is believing. TV audiences have to see the course of crisis otherwise it didn’t happen.