Broadcasting Freedom: Radio, War, and the Polit. Savage<|

Broadcasting FreedomRadio, War, and the Politics of Race, 1938-1948\nAuthor(s): Barbara Dianne Savage\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: The University of North Carolina Press, United States\nImprint: The University of North Carolina Press\nISBN-13: 9780807848043, 978-0807848043\nSynopsis\nThe World War II era represented the golden age of radio as a broadcast medium in the United States; it also witnessed a rise in African-American activism against racial segregation and discrimination, especially as they were practised by the federal government itself. In this study, the author links these cultural and political forces by showing how African-American activists, public officials, intellectuals, and artists sought to access and use radio to influence a national debate about racial inequality. Drawing on a body of national public affairs programming about African-Americans and race relations, the author uses these radio shows to demonstrate the emergence of a new national discourse about .