Waves of empowerment: Black radio and the civil rights movement
Presented by Presented by Tianyi Wang (Copenhagen)
In the early 1960s, as the civil rights movement was gaining momentum, black oriented radio stations were broadcasting across large swaths of the South. This paper uses newly digitized data to provide the first empirical evidence on the effects of black radio on the civil rights movement.
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- 16 March 2021 at 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm
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- Online
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- Economics; Econometrics and Business Statistics; General
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Presented by Presented by Tianyi Wang (Copenhagen)
In the early 1960s, as the civil rights movement was gaining momentum, black oriented radio stations were broadcasting across large swaths of the South. This paper uses newly digitized data to provide the first empirical evidence on the effects of black radio on the civil rights movement.
SoDa Labs webinar series
The SoDa Labs webinar series provides a platform for researchers around the world to present work that uses novel and alternative data and/or tools from data science and beyond to answer social science questions.
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