A History of the American Civil Rights Movement Through Newspaper Coverage: The Race Agenda, Volume 1

ISBN-13: 9781433146923 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 352 str.

Steve Hallock

Opis

From the cardinal Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court ruling that desegregated U.S. public education to the demonstrations, marches, and violence of the civil rights movement, A History of the American Civil Rights Movement Through Newspaper Coverage: The Race Agenda, Volume 1 traces the crusade for justice through the lens of major newspaper coverage to reveal the combating sectional press attitudes of the era. The book details attempts, blatant and subtle, to frame the major events of the movement in themes that have resonated from before, during, and since the Civil War. States' rights versus constitutional guarantees of freedom and equality, nullification versus federal authority, and regional social and cultural mores that buttressed the prejudices and political arguments of segregation and desegregation across the nation are some of the issues covered. This analysis of the press coverage of events and issues of that tumultuous period of U.S. history-by newspapers in the North, South, Midwest, and West-exposes perspectives and press routines that remain ingrained and thus relevant today, when journalistic treatment of political debate, ranging from traditional newspapers and broadcast platforms to those of cable, social media, and the Internet, continues to set an often volatile and oppositional political agenda.

Recenzje

"Steve Hallock offers an in depth treatment of the national press coverage of the civil rights movement and how it shaped our understanding of the world and the people in it. The book is a sobering and powerful account-a must read. And, in a moment where Americans find themselves drowning in a sea of non-stop media coverage and facing a president who declares, without any hint of irony, that the media is 'an enemy of the state,' it is critical that we understand the importance of news coverage in framing how we see the world and its problems and how it helps set the agenda for what we must do next." -Eddie Glaude, Chair of the Center for African American Studies and the William S. Tod Professor of Religion and African American Studies at Princeton University and author of Democracy in Black: How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul

Spis treści

Preface - Foreword by Patrick S. Washburn - Introduction - The Brown Decision: Separate Not Equal - The Lynching of Emmett Till; A Bus Seat Denied - Brown's First Test: Riots in Little Rock - Activists Set the Table at Lunch Counters - Taking Freedom on the Road - Civil War II in Oxford - Martin Luther King, Jr., Orchestrates Protest Model - Wallace Makes a Stand; Assassination in Mississippi - On the Capital Stage; Some Afterthoughts - Index.

O autorze

Steve Hallock holds a Ph.D. in journalism from Ohio University and is the director of graduate studies at the School of Communication at Point Park University in Pittsburgh. He is the author of seven previous books, including The Press March to War (Peter Lang, 2012).