The rise and fall of the associated negro press : Claude Barnett's pan-African news and the Jim Crow paradox / Gerald Horne.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Horne, Gerald, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Barnett, Claude, 1889-1967.

Barnett, Claude.

Associated Negro Press--History.

Associated Negro Press.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (222 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

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

Summary:

For more than 50 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 Americans of his day and a gifted, if unofficial, diplomat who forged links with figures as diverse as Jawaharlal Nehru, Zora Neale Hurston, and Richard Nixon. Gerald Horne weaves Barnett's fascinating life story through a groundbreaking history of the ANP, including its deep dedication to Pan-Africanism. An activist force in journalist, Barnett also helped send doctors and teachers to Africa, advised African governments, gave priority to foreign newsgathering, and saw the African American struggle in global terms. Yet Horne also confronts Barnett's contradictions.

Contents:

Beginnings

Haiti and the Bolshevik Revolution

World war looms

War changes

Red scare rising

Back to Africa

Cold War coming

Negroes as anticommunist propagandists?

Barnett Bestrides the globe

Pan-Africanism is the news

The Jim Crow paradox.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780252099762

0252099761

OCLC:

981908091