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Soul Unlimited (TV program), 188
South Philadelphia, 6, 14, 38, 43, 79, 133, 174–77, 183
South, Wesley, 128
Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), 126, 154
Southern High School (South Philadelphia High School), 176–77, 185
Southwest Philadelphia, 150, 174
space: neighborhoods and, 3, 11–31, 48, 125, 131–32, 173–79, 191, 208; television and, 3, 5, 11–14, 31–35, 48, 59–60, 66, 127, 157–79
Spagnuola, Frank, 174
Spann, Purvis, 126, 128
Spigel, Lynn, 35, 198–99, 225
Sputnik, 97
St. Alice, 177
St. Louis, 31, 40, 72, 128, 157, 209
St. Richard, 177
Stamz, Richard, 136
Star Trek (TV program), 189
Steele, Ted, 142
Steinberg, Martha Jean “the Queen,” 128
Stone, Kirby, 42
Storer Broadcasting Company, 135
Stott, Harold, 19
Strawberry Mansion Ju nior High construction protest, 116–19, 153
Strawberry Mansion section, 116
Stroll, the, 169–73
Stroman, Iona, 182–83
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), 182
Sturken, Marita, 199
suburbs, 3, 9, 14, 24–25, 31, 34–35, 44, 48, 69, 87–91, 110, 121, 124, 177, 181, 190–91, 225
Sugar Hill Times (TV program), 136
Sugrue, Thomas, 12, 101, 224–25
Sullivan, Arlene, 168, 174
Sullivan, Ed, 42
Sullivan, Reverend Leon, 92, 153
Swan Records, 147 “Sweet Little Sixteen” (song), 157
Tate, James, 119
Taylor v. Board of Education, 114
teen idols, 147–48
’Teen magazine, 159, 168–69, 174, 187
“Teen-Talk” newspaper column, 134
Teenage Frolics (TV program), 136
teenagers. See youth culture
Teenarama Dance Party (TV program), 136, 220
television: civic-oriented, 4, 5, 49, 50–67, 74; commercial model for, 5, 36, 52, 159, 160–61, 164–65, 167, 191. See also American Bandstand; development into national medium, 35–36; local, 35–49, 50–67, 133–37; pop u lar memory and, 180–94, 195–222; representations of race on, 43–49, 133–37, 157–79, 180–94, 195–209; teen focused, 11–14, 35–49, 50–67, 133–49, 157–79
Television magazine, 140
Tennessee, 103
Texas, 103, 157
textbook controversy, 108
That Was Then (TV program), 198
Thatch, Nigel, 204
Theoharis, Jeanne, 101, 128, 225
They Learn What They Live, 53, 73
They Shall Be Heard (TV program), 4, 5, 49, 50–67, 74
Thomas Edison High School, 87–93, 96
Thomas, Gladys, 82
Thomas, Mitch, 6, 127–29, 132–37, 150, 155–56. See also The Mitch Thomas Show
Thornton, Big Mama, 148
Three Chuckles, 42
Tillotson, Johnny, 147
Time magazine, 97, 138
Time-Life, 195
Tin Pan Alley, 144
The Today Show (TV program), 58
Top 40 radio, 147–48
Toppi, Joe, 29
tracking. See curriculum
Travolta, John, 214, 217
Triangle Publications, 11–12, 31, 36, 39, 54, 143, 146, 227. See also Walter Annenberg
Trowbridge, George, 73
TV Guide magazine, 12, 36, 39, 42, 142, 146, 167,
Twilight Zone (TV program), 198
Twitty, Conway, 148
UHF, 52
Ullman, David, 86
University of Chicago, 98
Upper Darby (PA), 14, 177
Uptown Theater (Philadelphia), 149–53
Urban League, 77, 86
USA Today (newspaper), 195
U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, 72
U.S. News and World Report, 97
U.S. Offi ce of Education, 98
U.S. Supreme Court, 78, 86, 89, 102, 114, 123, 154 Utica (NY), 137
Verica, Tom, 201
Veterans Administration (VA), 79
Veterans School, 78
VHF, 52
viewers. See audience
Virginia, 103, 138
vocal harmony, 46, 129–34, 137, 148
WABC-Radio (New York, NY), 146
Wagon Train (TV program), 148
Walker, Jack, 146
Walker, T-Bone, 148
Wall Street Journal (newspaper), 165, 210
Washington Post (newspaper), 142, 196
Washington, D.C., 17, 72, 132, 136, 150, 153, 160, 192, 220
Waters, John, 198, 210, 213, 216, 219. See also Hairspray
Watts, 205, 209; television footage of Watts riots, 208
Waukegan (IL), 6
WCAU-TV (Philadelphia), 54, 59, 63–65, 103–4
WDAS-radio (Philadelphia), 130, 140, 151
WDIA-radio (Memphis), 41
Webb, Jacqui, 151
Weir, Margaret, 12
“Welcome to the Sixties” (song), 214
Wells, Mary, 148
West Catholic High School for Boys, 38, 43–44, 60
West Catholic High School for Girls, 38, 43–44
West Palm Beach (FL), 132
West Philadelphia, 70, 77, 82, 105, 123, 130–31, 150, 153, 185–86, 225
West Philadelphia High School (WPHS), 26, 27, 38, 43–44, 81–82, 123, 155
Wetter, Allen, 68, 91–92, 95–96, 99, 106, 110, 113, 118
“WFIL–adelphia,” 2–3, 11–14, 31–49, 62, 66, 160, 163, 227
WFIL–TV (Philadelphia), 2–3, 11–14, 18, 27, 31–49, 50, 52–54, 62, 66, 137, 139–42, 146, 148, 160, 163, 183–84, 202–3, 227. See also Walter Annenberg; Triangle Publications, Inc.
WHAT-AM (Philadelphia), 41, 130
What the Negro Wants (Rayford Logan), 75
white homeowners’ associations, 3, 13. See also Angora Civic Association
White, “Tall Paul” Dudley, 126, 128
White, Mimi, 225
whiteness: American Bandstand’s image of national youth culture and, 157–79, 180–94; Italian-American teenagers and, 158–60, 173–78; rhetoric of racial innocence and, 187–94, 195–222
Wilkerson, Gerry, 136
William Penn High School, 45, 120, 182, 226
Williams, Kae, 129
Williams, Mark, 225
Williams, Nat, 154
Williams, Sandra, 150
Willis, Chuck, 172
WILM-radio (Wilmington, DE), 132
Wilmington News Journal (newspaper), 134–35
Wilmington (DE), 132–33
Wilson, Jackie, 152
Within Our Gates (radio program), 53
Wolfi nger, James, 21, 24, 225–26
Wood, Harold, 117, 118
Woodard, Komozi, 101, 128, 225
Woods, Georgie, 5, 6, 126–32, 137, 140, 149–56
World Per for mance Project (Yale University), 220
World War II, 21, 87, 174
WPFH-TV (Wilmington, DE), 133
WPHL-TV (Philadelphia), 151
Wynn, Walter, 86
Yates, Ed, 167
“You Can’t Stop the Beat” (song), 217–18
Young, Masco, 184
Youngstown (OH), 162
youth culture: as demographic target of advertisers, 38, 52, 63, 70, 150, 158–59, 161–67, 178; local, 26–31, 35–49, 126–56, 157–79; memory of, 180–94, 195–222; national, 157–79, 180–94
Youth Wants to Know (TV program), 58
Zadan, Craig, 213, 216, 220
Zion Baptist Church, 92
zoning. See school zoning policies
Zucker, Jeff, 198
AMERICAN CROSSROADS
Edited by Earl Lewis, George Lipsitz, George Sánchez, Dana Takagi, Laura Briggs, and Nikhil Pal Singh
1. Bord
er Matters: Remapping American Cultural Studies, by José David Saldívar
2. The White Scourge: Mexicans, Blacks, and Poor Whites in Texas Cotton Culture, by Neil Foley
3. Indians in the Making: Ethnic Relations and Indian Identities around Puget Sound, by Alexandra Harmon
4. Aztlán and Viet Nam: Chicano and Chicana Experiences of the War, edited by George Mariscal
5. Immigration and the Political Economy of Home: West Indian Brooklyn and American Indian Minneapolis, 1945–1992, by Rachel Buff
6. Epic Encounters: Culture, Media, and U.S. Interests in the Middle East since 1945, by Melani McAlister
7. Contagious Divides: Epidemics and Race in San Francisco’s Chinatown, by Nayan Shah
8. Japanese American Celebration and Conflict: A History of Ethnic Identity and Festival, 1934–1990, by Lon Kurashige
9. American Sensations: Class, Empire, and the Production of Popular Culture, by Shelley Streeby
10. Colored White: Transcending the Racial Past, by David R. Roediger
11. Reproducing Empire: Race, Sex, Science, and U.S. Imperialism in Puerto Rico, by Laura Briggs
12. meXicana Encounters: The Making of Social Identities on the Borderlands, by Rosa Linda Fregoso
13. Popular Culture in the Age of White Flight: Fear and Fantasy in Suburban Los Angeles, by Eric Avila
14. Ties That Bind: The Story of an Afro-Cherokee Family in Slavery and Freedom, by Tiya Miles
15. Cultural Moves: African Americans and the Politics of Representation, by Herman S. Gray
16. Emancipation Betrayed: The Hidden History of Black Organizing and White Violence in Florida from Reconstruction to the Bloody Election of 1920, by Paul Ortiz
17. Eugenic Nation: Faults and Frontiers of Better Breeding in Modern America, by Alexandra Stern
18. Audiotopia: Music, Race, and America, by Josh Kun
19. Black, Brown, Yellow, and Left: Radical Activism in Los Angeles, by Laura Pulido
20. Fit to Be Citizens? Public Health and Race in Los Angeles, 1879–1939, by Natalia Molina
21. Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California, by Ruth Wilson Gilmore
22. Proud to Be an Okie: Cultural Politics, Country Music, and Migration to Southern California, by Peter La Chapelle
23. Playing America’s Game: Baseball, Latinos, and the Color Line, by Adrian Burgos Jr.
24. The Power of the Zoot: Youth Culture and Resistance during World War II, by Luis Alvarez
25. Guantánamo: A Working-Class History between Empire and Revolution, by Jana K. Lipman
26. Between Arab and White: Race and Ethnicity in the Early Syrian-American Diaspora, by Sarah M. A. Gualtieri
27. Mean Streets: Chicago Youths and the Everyday Struggle for Empowerment in the Multiracial City, 1908–1969, by Andrew J. Diamond
28. In Sight of America: Photography and the Development of U.S. Immigration Policy, by Anna Pegler-Gordon
29. Migra! A History of the U.S. Border Patrol, by Kelly Lytle Hernández
30. Racial Propositions: Ballot Initiatives and the Making of Postwar California, by Daniel Martinez HoSang
31. Stranger Intimacy: Contesting Race, Sexuality, and the Law in the North American West, by Nayan Shah
32. The Nicest Kids in Town: American Bandstand, Rock ’n’ Roll, and the Struggle for Civil Rights in 1950s Philadelphia, by Matthew F. Delmont
33. Jack Johnson, Rebel Sojourner: Boxing in the Shadow of the Global Color Line, by Theresa Rundstedler
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