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The grapevine of the black South : the Scott Newspaper Syndicate in the generation before the civil rights movement /

"The Scott Newspaper Syndicate, run by the owners of the Atlanta Daily World, included more than 240 black newspapers between 1931 and 1955. It became after World War I the modern version of the nineteenth century kinship network, the grapevine, and it looked much the same and served similar en...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Aiello, Thomas, 1977- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Athens : The University of Georgia Press, [2018]
Series:Print culture in the South.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Atlanta, the Scott family, and the creation of a media empire
  • Race, representation, and the Puryear ax murders
  • The unsolved murder of William Alexander Scott
  • The SNS, gender, and the fight for teacher salary equalization
  • Expansion beyond the South in the wake of World War II
  • Percy Greene and the limits of syndication
  • Davis Lee and the transitory nature of syndicate editors
  • The life and death of the Scott Newspaper Syndicate
  • Appendix. The papers of the Scott Newspaper Syndicate.