THE PRESS AND RACE; MISSISSIPPI JOURNALISTS CONFRONT THE MOVEMENT.

Davies, David R. [David Randall Davies] (editor, Introduction). Susan M. Weill; Caryl A. Cooper; David R. Davies; Judy Smith; Laura Nan Fairley; David L. Bennett; Lawrence N. Strout; Arthur J. Kaul; Ginger Rudeseal Carter (contributors).

ISBN 10: 1578063426 / ISBN 13: 9781578063420

Published by Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 2001., 2001

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First printing (per publisher's number line upon copyright page). viii, 302 pages. Hardcover: H 23.25cm x L 15.5cm. Dust jacket rubbed; light bumping/curling at edges; faint slender stain at front panel's top center. Black cloth spine; black boards. Some stains to text block edges with bottom edge stain shallowly affecting several leaves at margins; staining to top fore-edge corner of pages 213-214; fore-edge nicking to rear free endpaper; interior leaves mostly remain clean. Binding is firm. With Acknowledgements, Introduction by editor David R. Davies, "About the Contributors," and Index. "Mississippi's Daily Press in Three Crises" by Susan M. Weill; "Percy Greene and the Jackson Advocate" by Caryl A. Cooper; "Jimmy Ward and the Jackson Daily News" by David R. Davies and Judy Smith; "J. Oliver Emmerich and the McComb Enterprise-Journal" by David R. Davies; "George A. McLean and the Tupelo Journal" by Laura Nan Fairley; "Ira B. Harkey, Jr., and the Pascagoula Chronicle" by David L. Bennett; "Wilson F. (Bill) Minor and the New Orleans Times-Picayune" by Lawrence N. Strout; "Hazel Brannon Smith and the Lexington Advertiser" by Arthur J. Kaul; "Hodding Carter, Jr., and the Delta Democrat-Times" by Ginger Rudeseal Carter. ISBN 1578063426.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: THE PRESS AND RACE; MISSISSIPPI JOURNALISTS CONFRONT THE MOVEMENT.
• Publisher: Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 2001.
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1578063426
• ISBN 13: 9781578063420
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Seller catalogs:
  • Americana-Mississippi

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Synopsis

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 Advocate), Ira B. Harkey, Jr. (Pascagoula Chronicle), George A. McLean (Tupelo Journal), Bill Minor (New Orleans Times-Picayune), Hazel Brannon Smith (Lexington Adviser), and Jimmy Ward (Jackson Daily News). Their editorial stances run the gamut from moderates such as Minor, Smith, and Carter, Jr., to openly segregationist editors such as Ward and Greene.

The Press and Race follows the press from the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision to 1965, when Congress passed the Voting Rights Act. Those years saw some of the most important events of the civil rights movement-the South's resistance to school desegregation throughout the 1950s and 1960s; the Freedom Rides of 1961; James Meredith's admission into the University of Mississippi in 1962; the assassination of Medgar Evers in 1963; and the events of Freedom Summer in 1964.

About the Author

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.