Journalism and Jim Crow: White Supremacy and the Black Struggle for a New America

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 360 pages
Publication date: 14 December 2021
Publisher: University of Illinois Press

The American Historical Association's 2022 Eugenia M. Palmegiano Prize was awarded to Sid Bedingfield. In the years following the Civil War, white publishers and editors utilized their newspapers to promote, sustain, and defend white supremacy throughout the South. At the same time, a dynamic Black press worked to undermine these efforts and compel the United States to uphold its democratic principles.

Journalism and Jim Crow explores the press as a pivotal political player in the emergence of the Jim Crow South. The contributors delve into the white press's central role in constructing an anti-democratic society by promoting and endorsing lynching, convict labor, and coordinated acts of violence and fraud that disenfranchised Black voters. They also examine the Black press's parallel struggle for a multiracial democracy of equality, justice, and opportunity for all, a valiant but ultimately tragic endeavor that had profound consequences for the American experiment.

Original and groundbreaking, Journalism and Jim Crow offers fresh perspectives on the intricate interplay between journalism and power in American democracy. The contributors include 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.

Weight: 586g
Dimension: 154 x 233 x 39 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780252086151