Traces the development of the Baltimore "Afro-American," one of America's leading black newspapers, from its founding in 1892 to the dawn of the Civil Rights Era in 1950. It focuses on the "Afro-American"'s coverage of events and issues affecting Baltimore's and the nation's black communities, particularly its crusades for racial reform in the first half of the 20th century. Farrar examines how the "Afro-American" grew and prospered as a newspaper and as a business. How and why the "Afro-American" conducted its news and editorial crusades for a powerful local and national black community free of racial disabilities is discussed as well. He also evaluates whether or not the "Afro-American" succeeded or failed in its racial justice campaigns and to what extent these campaigns made a difference in the local and national black communities' struggle for racial equity. He asserts that the "Afro-American" was a black middle-class institution that wanted to shape its community according to bourgeois values, but it also broke ground by looking at class issues in the early 20th-century black community.
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Traces the development of the Baltimore "Afro-American," one of America's leading black newspapers, from its founding in 1892 to the dawn of the Civil Rights Era in 1950. It focuses on the "Afro-American"'s coverage of events and issues affecting Baltimore's and the nation's black communities, particularly its crusades for racial reform in the first half of the 20th century. Farrar examines how the "Afro-American" grew and prospered as a newspaper and as a business. How and why the "Afro-American" conducted its news and editorial crusades for a powerful local and national black community free of racial disabilities is discussed as well. He also evaluates whether or not the "Afro-American" succeeded or failed in its racial justice campaigns and to what extent these campaigns made a difference in the local and national black communities' struggle for racial equity. He asserts that the "Afro-American" was a black middle-class institution that wanted to shape its community according to bourgeois values, but it also broke ground by looking at class issues in the early 20th-century black community.
Imprint | Praeger Publishers Inc |
Country of origin | United States |
Series | Contributions in Afro-American and African Studies: Contemporary Black Poets |
Release date | May 1998 |
Availability | Expected to ship within 10 - 15 working days |
First published | May 1998 |
Authors | Hayward Farrar |
Dimensions | 235 x 156 x 25mm (L x W x T) |
Format | Hardcover |
Pages | 240 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-313-30517-7 |
Barcode | 9780313305177 |
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LSN | 0-313-30517-X |