Black Journalists and the Fight for Racial Justice in the Twentieth Century
African American reporters covering history
Once distinct, the commercial and alternative black press began to cross over with one another in the 1920s. The porous press culture that emerged shifted the political and economic motivations shaping African American journalism. It also sparked disputes over radical politics that altered ......
Black Journalists and the Fight for Racial Justice in the Twentieth Century
African American reporters covering history
Once distinct, the commercial and alternative black press began to cross over with one another in the 1920s. The porous press culture that emerged shifted the political and economic motivations shaping African American journalism. It also sparked disputes over radical politics that altered ......
Civil Rights and White Resistance in South Carolina, 1935-1965
How journalists enlisted on both sides of the mid-century struggle
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 ......
Claude Barnett's Pan-African News and the Jim Crow Paradox
Publisher, diplomat, activist--the astonishing story of the first African American press baron
For more than fifty years, the Chicago-based Associated Negro Press (ANP) fought racism at home and grew into an international news organization abroad. At its head stood founder Claude Barnett, one of the most influential African ......
Claude Barnett's Pan-African News and the Jim Crow Paradox
Publisher, diplomat, activist--the astonishing story of the first African American press baron
For more than fifty years, the Chicago-based Associated Negro Press (ANP) fought racism at home and grew into an international news organization abroad. At its head stood founder Claude Barnett, one of the most influential African ......
Civil Rights and White Resistance in South Carolina, 1935-1965
How journalists enlisted on both sides of the mid-century struggle
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 ......
Countering assumptions about early American print culture and challenging our scholarly fixation on the novel, Jared Gardner reimagines the early American magazine as a rich literary culture that operated as a model for nation-building by celebrating editorship over authorship and serving as a virtual salon in which citizens were invited to share ......
The minutes, hours, and days after President John F. Kennedy was shot on November 22, 1963, provided no ready answers about what was going on, what would happen next, or what any of it meant. For millions of Americans transfixed by the incomparable breaking news, television-for the first time-emerged as a way to keep informed. But the journalists ......
Journalism and Power in the Making of Peronist Argentina, 19301955
An interdisciplinary study examining the newspaper industry in Argentina during the regime of Juan Domingo Perón. Traces how Perón managed to integrate almost the entire Argentine press into a state-dominated media empire.
