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Title:
Newspaper wars : civil rights and white resistance in South Carolina, 1935-1965 / Sid Bedingfield.
Author:
Bedingfield, Sid, author.
Publication Information:
Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2017]
Call Number:
PN4897.S64 B44 2017
Geographic Term:
South Carolina -- Race relations -- Press coverage -- History -- 20th century.
ISBN:
9780252041228

9780252082788
Series:
The history of communication

History of communication.
Physical Description:
viii, 269 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Subject Term:
Civil rights movements -- Press coverage -- South Carolina -- History -- 20th century.

African American newspapers -- South Carolina -- History -- 20th century.

Press and politics -- South Carolina -- History -- 20th century.

Racism in the press -- South Carolina.
Contents:
Introduction -- Early struggles -- A newspaper joins the movement -- A black political insurgency in the Deep South -- The white press and the Dixiecrat revolt -- An old warrior underestimates a new foe -- Massive resistance and the death of a black newspaper -- The paper curtain and the new GOP -- Color-blind conservatism and the great white switch -- Epilogue.
Personal Subject:
McCray, John Henry, 1910-1987.
Personal Author:
Bedingfield, Sid, author.
Subject:
Civil rights movements -- Press coverage -- South Carolina -- History -- 20th century.

African American newspapers -- South Carolina -- History -- 20th century.

Press and politics -- South Carolina -- History -- 20th century.

Racism in the press -- South Carolina.

South Carolina -- Race relations -- Press coverage -- History -- 20th century.

McCray, John Henry, 1910-1987.
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