The Nicest Kids in Town: American Bandstand, Rock 'n' Roll, and the Struggle for Civil Rights in 1950s Philadelphia (Volume 32)

The Nicest Kids in Town is a groundbreaking book that reveals the hidden history of racial segregation on America's first television program centered on the teenage population.

Through meticulous research, author Matthew F.

Delmont uncovers how white families around American Bandstand's studio mobilized to maintain all-white neighborhoods and how local school officials reinforced segregation long after Brown vs.

Board of Education.

This book powerfully illustrates how national issues and history have their roots in local situations, and how nostalgic representations of the past, like the musical film Hairspray, based on the American Bandstand era, can work as impediments to progress in the present.

Don't miss out on this eye-opening and thought-provoking read that will leave you with a newfound appreciation for the complexities of American history.