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Newspaper Wars : Civil Rights and White Resistance in South Carolina, 1935-1965 /

Against all odds, the seeds of social change found purchase in mid-twentieth century South Carolina. Newspaperman John McCray and his allies at the Lighthouse and Informer challenged readers to "rebel and fight"--to reject the "slavery of thought and action" and become "prog...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Bedingfield, Sid (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2017.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Early struggles
  • A newspaper joins the movement
  • A black political insurgency in the Deep South
  • The white press and the Dixiecrat revolt
  • An old warrior underestimates a new foe
  • Massive resistance and the death of a black newspaper
  • The paper curtain and the new GOP
  • Color-blind conservatism and the great white switch
  • Epilogue.