Race news : black journalists and the fight for racial justice in the twentieth century / Fred Carroll.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Carroll, Fred, 1971- author.

Series:

History of communication.

History of Communication

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African American press--History--20th century.

African American press.

Civil rights movements--Press coverage--United States--History--20th century.

Civil rights movements.

Physical Description:

1 online resource: illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Urbana, [Illinois] ; Chicago, [Illinois] ; Springfield, [Illinois] : University of Illinois Press, 2017.

Summary:

"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 news coverage of some of the most momentous events in African American history. Starting in the 1920s, Fred Carroll traces how mainstream journalists incorporated coverage of the alternative press’s supposedly marginal politics of anticolonialism, anticapitalism, and black separatism into their publications. He follows the narrative into the 1950s, when an alternative press reemerged as commercial publishers curbed progressive journalism in the face of Cold War repression. Yet, as Carroll shows, journalists achieved significant editorial independence, and continued to do so as national newspapers modernized into the 1960s. Alternative writers’ politics seeped into commercial papers via journalists who wrote for both presses and through professional friendships that ignored political boundaries." --Publisher's description.

Contents:

Introduction: political pressures and black newswriting

"Negro subversion": solidifying a militant press

Enter the "new crowd" journalists

Popular fronts and modern presses

The "new crowd" goes global

"Questionable leanings": the "new crowd" driven out

Black power assaults the black newspaper

Into the white newsroom

Epilogue: a crusade into the digital age.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780252050091

0252050096

OCLC:

994206254