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Journalism and Jim Crow : white supremacy and the Black struggle for a new America

Title: Journalism and Jim Crow : white supremacy and the Black struggle for a new America / edited by Kathy Roberts Forde and Sid Bedingfield ; foreword by Alex Lichtenstein.
Publication: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2021]

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Description

xvii, 344 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, facsimile, map, portraits; 24 cm.

Summary

"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. Journalism and Jim Crow centers the press as a crucial political actor shaping the rise of the Jim Crow South. The contributors explore the leading role of the white press in constructing an anti-democratic society by promoting and supporting not only lynching and convict labor but also coordinated campaigns of violence and fraud that disenfranchised Black voters. They also examine the Black press's parallel fight for a multiracial democracy of equality, justice, and opportunity for all-a losing battle with tragic consequences for the American experiment. Original and revelatory, Journalism and Jim Crow opens up new ways of thinking about the complicated relationship between journalism and power in American democracy. Contributors: Sid Bedingfield, Bryan Bowman, W. Fitzhugh Brundage, Kathy Roberts Forde, Robert Greene II, Kristin L. Gustafson, D'Weston Haywood, Blair LM Kelley, and Razvan Sibii"--

Series Statement

The history of communication

Uniform Title

History of communication.

Subject

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction: Journalism and the world it built / Sid Bedingfield and Kathy Roberts Forde. Part One: The Contested New South. 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 / Sid Bedingfield -- Death of democracy, North Carolina / Kristin L. Gustafson -- Convict wars, Tennessee / Razvan Sibii -- Tourist empires, Florida / Kathy Roberts Forde and Bryan Bowman. Part Four: Measuring the Cost. Silencing a generation / Blair LM Kelley -- Epilogue: Journalism and the world to come / Kathy Roberts Forde and Sid Bedingfield.

Call Number

Sc E 22-1177

ISBN

9780252086151
0252086155
9780252044106
025204410X

LCCN

2021016884

OCLC

1252738453

Title

Journalism and Jim Crow : white supremacy and the Black struggle for a new America / edited by Kathy Roberts Forde and Sid Bedingfield ; foreword by Alex Lichtenstein.

Publisher

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2021]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

The history of communication

History of communication.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological Term

1800-1999

Added Author

Forde, Kathy Roberts, editor.

Bedingfield, Sid, editor.

Lichtenstein, Alexander C., writer of foreword.

Research Call Number

Sc E 22-1177

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