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Civil Rights:
Using the Media for Social Change:
Historically, anyone who has a story to tell usually has found a way to do it. Women and minorities for years used their publications to press their causes -- from voting rights to battling discrimination. Although the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s was an American issue, not just a "black" issue, blacks learned to use the mainstream press to get out the story that they'd been telling in their own publications for years. The civil rights movement was a precursor to the modern feminist movement and the push for Chicano rights. |