Question

Civil rights activists in the 1960s used the media to show americans the injustice of the treatment of minorities, successfully placing the civil rights issue onto the __________.

Answer 1

It put it onto the policy agenda. Thanks to the media, the civil rights fight started getting supporters from all around america and form all classes and ethnicities. Without the media, we can't know when the civil rights would be won because the people wouldn't have known what was going on and to what degree.