Black reporters also awakened the awareness of African-Americans providing the great stories about their rights. [footnoteRef:3] [3: Aucoin, James. The Evolution of American investigative journalism. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2007.]
Aucoin argued that films and television were the powerful tools that had a tremendous impact on social turmoil in the 60s. Based on the international events during the time, the American population no more having trusted in the government and their institutions. Thus, the journalists influence the social rebellions through their criticisms of the segregation laws. Moreover, the films have great influence on the American movement of social and civil rights. In the 1960s, increasing number of African-Americans were participating in movies. For example, the film "Birth of a Nation"[footnoteRef:4] produces a positive image of African-Americans. Moreover, the film "Who is Coming the Dinner" influences the social changes in the United States.[footnoteRef:5] [4: Wagner, Terry. "America's Civil Rights Revolution: Three Documentaries about Emmett Till's Murder in Mississippi (1955)." Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television 30, no. 2 (2010): 187-201. doi:10.1080/01439681003779093.] [5: Ibid Wagner, Terry]
Berry contributed to the argument by pointing out that civil rights movement that occurred between 1955 and 1965 was aimed to abolish racial discrimination. Before the government imposed the equal rights, African-Americans were subjected to oppression with no voting rights. In the government services and public facilities, the domains of whites and black were separated. However, the black population lacked financial resources to fight for their rights. With the "Supreme Court victory of Brown v. Board of Education of 1954 that rejected separation of white and black school systems (11)"[footnoteRef:6] marked the beginning of civil and social right movements. However, this Supreme Court decision did not have immediate effects, nevertheless, it assisted in producing effects such as boycotts, and marches that marked the era of civil rights movements, and civil disobedience in the United States. For example, the bus boycott that happened in 1955 was designed to oppose the city's policy of segregation in the 1950s. The pressure from African-Americans to stop the segregation in the American society made the government to pass the "Civil Rights Acts of 1964" (11).[footnoteRef:7] [6: Berry, Erica F., "A Comparative Study of African-American Representations in Film from Original to Remake as Influenced by the Civil Rights Movement" (2009). Honors College. Paper 21.] [7: Ibid Berry Erica]
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