The Civil Rights Movement benefited from and, to a significant extent, required attention from national media in order to achieve its political and social objectives. How did the media respond to, engage with, and represent this most powerful of social change movements? We will examine a variety of media forms: Hollywood cinema, network television, mainstream newspapers, photojournalism, the black press, and news magazines in order to explore the relationship between the movement and the media. We will examine media artifacts as primary documents for what they can tell us about American race relations during this period. Through intensive classroom discussion, students will hone their abilities to interpret and analyze media artifacts as historical documents, as aesthetic forms, and as ideological texts.