In a madhouse's din : civil rights coverage by Mississippi's daily press, 1948-1968 / Susan Weill ; foreword by Ira Harkey.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Weill, Susan, 1953-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Civil rights--Mississippi--History--20th century.

African Americans.

African Americans--Press coverage--Mississippi--History--20th century.

Civil rights movements--Mississippi--History--20th century.

Civil rights movements.

Journalism.

History.

American newspapers.

Editorials.

African Americans--Press coverage.

African Americans--Civil rights.

Mississippi.

Editorials--Mississippi--History--20th century.

American newspapers--Mississippi--History--20th century.

Journalism--Mississippi--History--20th century.

Mississippi--Race relations.

Race relations.

Physical Description:

xv, 281 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2002.

Contents:

1. Civil Rights and the Mississippi Daily Press: An Introduction 1

2. 1948: The Dixiecrats and the Mississippi Daily Press 21

3. 1954: Brown v. Board of Education and the Mississippi Daily Press 45

4. 1962: The Desegregation of Ole Miss and the Mississippi Daily Press 75

5. 1964: Freedom Summer and the Mississippi Daily Press 107

6. 1968: The Death of Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Mississippi Daily Press 211

Appendix 1 Mississippi Daily Press Editors 253

Appendix 2 Mississippi Daily Press Circulation 255

Appendix 3 Population Statistics of Mississippi Counties with Daily Newspapers, 1948-1968 257.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [261]-267) and index.

ISBN:

0275969606

OCLC:

47667244