| The Press and Race: Mississippi Journalists Confront the Movement Contributor(s): Davies, David R. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1934110523 ISBN-13: 9781934110522 Publisher: University Press of Mississippi OUR PRICE: $34.65 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2007 Annotation: The fervent opinions and historic decisions of editorial writers in Mississippi in the turbulent 1950s and 1960s |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Language Arts & Disciplines | Journalism - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - Social Science | Discrimination & Race Relations |
| Dewey: 323.119 |
| LCCN: 00047730 |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6" W x 9" (1.01 lbs) 302 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 20th Century - Ethnic Orientation - African American - Geographic Orientation - Mississippi - Cultural Region - Deep South - Cultural Region - Mid-South - Cultural Region - South - Chronological Period - 1950-1999 - Chronological Period - 1960's - Topical - Black History |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 |
Contributor Bio(s): Davies, David R.: - David R. Davies is chair of the Department of Journalism at the University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg. A former reporter for the Arkansas Gazette, he has been published in American Journalism, the Chicago Tribune, and the Journal of Mississippi History. |