Journalism and Jim Crow: White Supremacy and the Black Struggle for a New America Forde Kathy Roberts
Journalism and Jim Crow: White Supremacy and the Black Struggle for a New America Forde Kathy Roberts White publishers and editors used their newspapers to build, nurture, and protect white supremacy…
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Journalism and Jim Crow: White Supremacy and the Black Struggle for a New America Forde Kathy Roberts
White publishers and editors used their newspapers to build, nurture, and protect white supremacy across the South in the decades after the Civil War. Journalism and Jim Crow centers the press as a crucial political actor shaping the rise of the Jim Crow South. 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.
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 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.