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The Divided Dial
99% Invisible
The Civil Rights Movement Wasn't Getting Much Airtime Back in the 1960s
In 1955, a joint radio and TV station called WLBT in Mississippi cut the feed of Thurgood Marshall's interview with NBC. The manager of the station was an avowed white supremacist. This continued into the 1960s at WLBT when they repeatedly refused to let civil rights leaders appear on the station. Martin Luther King started explicitly calling out the lack of media attention by asking allies to help get coverage.
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