Matthew F. Delmont

American Bandstand, one of the most popular television shows ever, broadcast from Philadelphia in the late fifties, a time when that city had become a battleground for civil rights. Counter to host Dick Clark’s claims that he integrated American Bandstand, this book reveals how the first national television program directed at teens discriminated against black youth during its early years and how black teens and civil rights advocates protested this discrimination. Matthew F. Delmont brings...

In the decades after the landmark&#160;<I>Brown v. Board of Education</I>&#160;Supreme Court decision, busing to achieve school desegregation became one of the nation&rsquo;s most controversial civil rights issues.&#160;<I>Why Busing Failed</I>&#160;is the first book to examine the pitched battles over busing on a national scale, focusing on cities such as Boston, Chicago, New York, and Pontiac, Michigan. This groundbreaking book shows how school...