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Winner of the American Historical Association's 2022 Eugenia M.
Palmegiano Prize. 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. Journalism and
Jim Crow 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. Original and revelatory, Journalism
and Jim Crow opens up new ways of thinking about the complicated
relationship between journalism and power in American democracy.
Contributors: Sid Bedingfield, Bryan Bowman, W. Fitzhugh Brundage,
Kathy Roberts Forde, Robert Greene II, Kristin L. Gustafson,
D'Weston Haywood, Blair LM Kelley, and Razvan Sibii
Winner of the American Historical Association's 2022 Eugenia M.
Palmegiano Prize. 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. Journalism and
Jim Crow 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. Original and revelatory, Journalism
and Jim Crow opens up new ways of thinking about the complicated
relationship between journalism and power in American democracy.
Contributors: Sid Bedingfield, Bryan Bowman, W. Fitzhugh Brundage,
Kathy Roberts Forde, Robert Greene II, Kristin L. Gustafson,
D'Weston Haywood, Blair LM Kelley, and Razvan Sibii
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