martin luther king and mass media
Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Mass Media Martin Luther King Jr. was a very significant and influential man. Though his life was cut short at 39 years old, he left a big mark on today's society. From the Prayer Pilgrimage of May 17, 1957, an event and a date that marked King's entree into the field of national Negro leadership to the unforgettable March on Washington. (Bennett 10) King was determined to reach his goal, which was to have blacks and whiter united and treated equally. King was faced with many obstacles, including the press. At first, there was hardly any print about King's events and protests. When the events did get recognition King's name wasn't mentioned at all. Not until many years later when the protests sparked violence and death was King's name mentioned and even then, it was used in negative way. In this paper, I will discuss how the news magazines Time, Newsweek, and the U.S. News went about distorting, neglecting, and eventually praising King and his events. In order to help understand the Civil Rights Movement and it controversy you have to start at the beginning. On the way home from work as a seamstress Mrs. Rosa Parks boarded a Montgomery City Line bus. When asked to give up her seat
Time and Newsweek reported the March as a rite of national idealism. White police officers with K-9 dogs invaded the march and arrests were made. (Lentz 118)Time selected King as "Man of the Year". King was one of the demonstrators arrested. "(Lentz 104) Four months after the march Time magazine was the first to print the entirety of Kings "I have a dream. A message came down form the Supreme Court striking down the motion that the bus segregation ordinance as unconstitutional. for a white passenger Rosa Parks refused. Only one policeman used a nightstick and that was merely to just prod stragglers. No mention of the call appeared in Newsweek and Time, which was odd, considering Kennedy was the nations most visible news maker. He was the twelfth American and third Negro to win this prize.
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