Newspaper Wars

Civil Rights and White Resistance in South Carolina, 1935-1965

Sid Bedingfield (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

292 Seiten

2017
University of Illinois Press (Verlag)
978-0-252-08278-8 (ISBN)

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Against all odds, the seeds of social change found purchase in mid-twentieth century South Carolina. Newspaperman John McCray and his allies at the Lighthouse and Informer challenged readers to "rebel and fight"--to reject the "slavery of thought and action" and become "progressive fighters" for equality. Newspaper Wars traces the role journalism played in the fight for civil rights in South Carolina from the 1930s through the 1960s. Moving the press to the center of the political action, Sid Bedingfield tells the stories of the long-overlooked men and women on the front lines of a revolution. African American progress sparked a battle to shape South Carolina's civic life, with civil rights activists arrayed against white journalists determined to preserve segregation through massive resistance. As that strategy failed, white newspapers turned to overt political action and crafted the still-prevalent narratives that aligned southern whites with the national conservative movement. A fascinating portrait of a defining time, Newspaper Wars analyzes the role journalism played--and still can play--during times of social, cultural, and political change.

Sid Bedingfield is an assistant professor of journalism and mass communication at the University of Minnesota.

CoverTitleContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Early Struggles2. A Newspaper Joins the Movement3. A Black Political Insurgency in the Deep South4. The White Press and the Dixiecrat Revolt5. An Old Warrior Underestimates a New FoePhotographs6. Massive Resistance and the Death of a Black Newspaper7. The Paper Curtain and the New GOP8. Color-Blind Conservatism and the Great White SwitchEpilogueNotesBibliographyIndex

Erscheinungsdatum	21.08.2017
Zusatzinfo	17 black & white photographs
Verlagsort	Baltimore
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	399 g
Themenwelt	Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Wörterbuch / Fremdsprachen
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Zeitgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Journalistik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-252-08278-8 / 0252082788
ISBN-13	978-0-252-08278-8 / 9780252082788
Zustand	Neuware