Journalism and Jim Crow : White Supremacy and the Black Struggle for a New America /

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"White publishers and editors used their newspapers to build, nurture, and protect white supremacy across the South in the decades after the Civil War. At the same time, a vibrant Black press fought to disrupt these efforts and force the United States to live up to its democratic ideals. Journa...

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Other Authors: Lichtenstein, Alexander C. (author of foreword.), Bedingfield, Sid (Editor), Forde, Kathy Roberts (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2021]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Racism in the press.
Journalism > Political aspects.
Journalism.
American newspapers.
African American newspapers.
Racism in the press > Southern States.
Journalism > Political aspects > Southern States.
African American newspapers > History > 20th century.
African American newspapers > History > 19th century.
American newspapers > Southern States > History > 20th century.
American newspapers > Southern States > History > 19th century.
Journalism > Southern States > History > 20th century.
Journalism > Southern States > History > 19th century.
Southern States.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Journalism and the world it built
  • Part One. Architect of the New South / Kathy Roberts Forde
  • Fight for a new America / D'Weston Haywood
  • Part Two: Racial terror and disfranchisement
  • The press and lynching / W. Fitzhugh Brundage
  • Mississippi plan / Robert Greene II
  • Part three: Building the Solid South
  • Populist insurgency, Alabama / Sid Bedingfield
  • Tillman's rebellion, South Carolina
  • Death of democracy, North Carolina / Kristin L. Gustafson
  • Convict wars, Tennessee / Razvan Sibii
  • Tourist empires, Florida / Kathy Roberts Forde and Bryan Bowman
  • Part Four. Silencing a generation / Blair LM Kelley
  • Epilogue: Journalism and the world to come.

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