This work examines both predominately black newspapers in general and four in particular -- the Chicago Defender, the Pittsburgh Courier, the Black Dispatch (Oklahoma City), and the Jackson (Mississippi) Advocate -- and their coverage of national events. The beginnings of the black press are detailed, focusing on how they reported the anti-slavery movement, the Civil War and the Reconstruction era. Their coverage of the migration of blacks to the industrial north in the…
Author: Charles A. Simmons · Original publisher: McFarland (Jefferson, NC), 1998
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