A Full Measure of Freedom

Kim Gallon is an associate professor of Africana Studies at Brown University. She is the author of Pleasure in the News: African American Readership and Sexuality in the Black Press. E. James West is a lecturer in the arts and sciences at University College London. He is the author of A House for the Struggle: The Black Press and the Built Environment in Chicago.

Table of Contents Introduction, by Kim Gallon and E. James West 1. Antislavery, Citizenship, and the Early Black Press, by Dexter Gabriel 2. Frederick Douglass' Paper and the Project of Black Leadership, by Benjamin Fagan 3. Seeking Family, Asserting Rights: Black Women, the Black Press, and Information Wanted Ads, by Teresa Zackodnik 4. The Cleveland Gazette: Paper-Reading Citizens in the Post-Reconstruction Era, by Jeon Woo 5. Seen and Not Heard: Black Women, Gender and the Radical New Negro Press, by Jane Rhodes 6. "The Ever Present Sex Question": Black Women Health Concerns in the Chicago Defender, 1913-1935, by Wangui Muigai 7. Antifundamentalism in the Black Religious Press: Afro-Protestant Critical Religious Orientations in the Star of Zion, 1921-1939, by Vaughn A. Booker 8. The Women of Abbott's Monthly: The Visual Economics of Modern Black Womanhood, by Kim Gallon 9. Population Density and Newspaper Development: The Scott Newspaper Syndicate and the Demography of the Great Migration, by Thomas Aiello 10. In the Shadow, for the Struggle: The Black College Press and the Fight for RacialJustice, by Sheryl Kennedy Heydel 11. Gerri Major's "Freedom Song": Chronicling Gender, Class, and Pleasure in the Black Press, by Tiffany Gill 12. Up Against a Deadline: Malcolm X, the Organization of Afro-American Unity, Blacklash, & a Race Against Time, by D'Weston Haywood 13. From the Same African Womb? The Transnational Black Press and Black Power Networks, by Lynette Mills 14. Visibility is Survival: BLK Magazine, the Black Gay Renaissance, and the Queer Politics of Black Print, by E. James West 15. The Center of the Black Universe? The City Sun and New York's Black Press in the 1980s, by Wayne Dawkins 16. Shifting Mediums: The Affordances and Limitations of a Digital Black Press, by Miya Williams Fayne 17. Hearing Our Voice: The Legacy of the Black Press, from Print to Podcast, by Tegan R. Bratcher 18. A Place of Our Own: Real Estate as a Tool for Community-Building and Sustainability at the Afro-American, by Savannah G. M. Wood 19. A Legacy Preserved: The Black Press Archives at the Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, by Brandon Nightingale 20. A Credo for Black Press Studies: The Next 200 Years, by Kim Gallon and E. James West