Practical radicalism and the Great Migration : the cultural geography of the Scott Newspaper Syndicate / Thomas Aiello.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Aiello, Thomas, 1977- author.

Series:

Print culture in the South.

Print culture in the South

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Syndicates (Journalism)--United States--History--20th century.

Syndicates (Journalism).

Syndicates (Journalism)--Southern States--History--20th century.

Radicalism and the press--United States--History--20th century.

Radicalism and the press.

Radicalism and the press--Southern States--History--20th century.

African American newspapers--Southern States--History--20th century.

African American newspapers.

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

Great Migration, ca. 1914-ca. 1970.

Scott Newspaper Syndicate--History--20th century.

Scott Newspaper Syndicate.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (382 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

University of Georgia Press 2023

Athens, Georgia : The University of Georgia Press, [2023]

Summary:

"This book's predecessor, The Grapevine of the Black South, emphasized the owners of the Atlanta Daily World and its operation of the Scott Newspaper Syndicate between 1931 and 1955. In a pragmatic effort to avoid racial confrontation developing from white fear, newspaper editors developed a practical radicalism that argued on the fringes of racial hegemony, saving their loudest vitriol for tyranny that was not local and thus left no stake in the game for would-be white saboteurs. Thomas Aiello reexamined historical thinking about the Depression-era Black South, the information flow of the Great Migration, the place of southern newspapers in the historiography of Black journalism, and even the ideological and philosophical underpinnings of the civil rights movement. With Practical Radicalism and the Great Migration, Aiello continues that analysis by tracing the development and trajectory of the individual newspapers of the Syndicate, evaluating those with surviving issues, and presenting them as they existed in proximity to their Atlanta hub. In so doing, he emphasizes the thread of practical radicalism that ran through Syndicate editorial policy. Practical Radicalism and the Great Migration is a supplement to The Grapevine of the Black South, providing a fuller picture of the Scott Newspaper Syndicate and the Black press in the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction. The migration of the Scott Syndicate

Georgia

Florida

The Carolinas

Alabama

Tennessee

Mississippi and Louisiana

The Syndicate moves West

From the Upper South to the Midwest

The North

Conclusion. The twilight of the Scott Syndicate.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780820368085

0820368083

9780820362878

0820362875

OCLC:

1357533512