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The Press and Race: Mississippi Journalists Confront the Movement

The Press and Race: Mississippi Journalists Confront the Movement

Davies, David R.

Paperback

Writing InstructionBlack American StudiesGeneral Racism & Ethnic Studies

ISBN10: 1934110523
ISBN13: 9781934110522
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Published: Apr 25 2001
Pages: 302
Weight: 1.01
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The fervent opinions and historic decisions of editorial writers in tumultuous times

For southern newspapers and southern readers, the social upheaval in the years following Brown v. Board of Education (1954) was, as Time put it in 1956, the region's biggest running story since slavery. The southern press struggled with the region's accommodation of the school desegregation ruling and with black America's demand for civil rights.

The nine essays in The Press and Race illuminate the broad array of print journalists' responses to the civil rights movement in Mississippi, a state that was one of the nation's major civil rights battlegrounds. Three of the journalists covered won Pulitzer prizes for their work and one was the first woman editorial writer to earn that coveted prize.

The journalists and editors covered are Hodding Carter, Jr. (Greenville Delta Democrat-Times), J. Oliver Emmerich (McComb Enterprise-Journal), Percy Greene (Jackson Advoc

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