Journalism and Jim Crow : white supremacy and the Black struggle for a new America / edited by Kathy Roberts Forde and Sid Bedingfield ; foreword by Alex Lichtenstein.
Publisher:
University of Illinois Press,
Copyright Date:
2021
Description:
xvii, 344 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, facsimile, map, portraits ; 24 cm
Epilogue : Journalism and the world to come / Kathy Roberts Forde and Sid Bedingfield. Part Four : The contested New South. Architect of the New South / Kathy Roberts Forde ; Fight for a new America / D'Weston Haywood -- Part Two : Racial terror and disfranchisement. The press and lynching / W. Fitzhugh Brundage ; Mississippi plan / Robert Greene II -- Part Three : Building the Solid South. Populist insurgency, Alabama / Sid Bedingfield ; Tillman's rebellion, South Carolina / Sid Bedingfield ; Death of democracy, North Carolina / Kristin L. Gustafson ; Convict wars, Tennessee / Razvan Sibii ; Tourist empires, Florida / Kathy Roberts Forde and Bryan Bowman -- Part Four : Measuring the cost. Silencing a generation / Blair LM Kelley -- Epilogue : Journalism and the world to come / Kathy Roberts Forde and Sid Bedingfield.
Summary:
White publishers and editors used their newspapers to build, nurture, and protect white supremacy across the South in the decades after the Civil War. 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. This book centers the press as a crucial political actor shaping the rise of the Jim Crow South. 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. 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. This book opens up new ways of thinking about the complicated relationship between journalism and power in American democracy. -- Provided by publisher.
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