Broadcasting Freedom: Radio, war, and the politics of race 1938-1948

The World War II era represented the golden age of radio as a brodcast medium in the United States: it also witnessed a rise in African American activism against racial segregation and discrimination,especially as practiced by federal government itself. Brodcasting Freedom 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.