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

Published Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2017]

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 264 pages) Series The history of communication History of communication 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 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 20, 2017) Subject African American press -- History -- 20th century Civil rights movements -- Press coverage -- United States -- History -- 20th century Racism in the press -- United States African American journalists -- History -- 20th century Press and politics -- United States LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Journalism. HISTORY -- United States -- 20th Century. African American journalists African American press Press and politics Racism in the press United States Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 2017034231 ISBN 9780252050091 0252050096

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