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African Americans and mass media --- African American mass media --- Race in mass media --- Sociology of minorities --- Mass communications --- United States --- African American mass media. --- African Americans and mass media. --- Race in mass media. --- United States of America

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African American newspapers --- African American celebrities --- African American press --- African American journalism --- Afro-American press --- Journalism, African American --- Negro press --- Press, African American --- African American mass media --- Ethnic press --- Celebrities, African American --- Celebrities --- Afro-American newspapers --- Negro newspapers (American) --- American newspapers --- Political aspects --- History --- Press coverage.

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"Once distinct, the commercial and alternative black press began to cross over with one another in the 1920s. The porous press culture that emerged shifted the political and economic motivations shaping African American journalism. It also sparked disputes over radical politics that altered news coverage of some of the most momentous events in African American history. Starting in the 1920s, Fred Carroll traces how mainstream journalists incorporated coverage of the alternative press’s supposedly marginal politics of anticolonialism, anticapitalism, and black separatism into their publications. He follows the narrative into the 1950s, when an alternative press reemerged as commercial publishers curbed progressive journalism in the face of Cold War repression. Yet, as Carroll shows, journalists achieved significant editorial independence, and continued to do so as national newspapers modernized into the 1960s. Alternative writers’ politics seeped into commercial papers via journalists who wrote for both presses and through professional friendships that ignored political boundaries."

African American press --- Civil rights movements --- Civil liberation movements --- Liberation movements (Civil rights) --- Protest movements (Civil rights) --- Human rights movements --- African American journalism --- Afro-American press --- Journalism, African American --- Negro press --- Press, African American --- African American mass media --- Ethnic press --- History --- Press coverage

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African American press --- Tea Party movement --- History. --- Press coverage. --- United States --- Politics and government. --- Tea Baggers movement --- Teabaggers movement --- Populism --- Protest movements --- African American journalism --- Afro-American press --- Journalism, African American --- Negro press --- Press, African American --- African American mass media --- Ethnic press

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During the Vietnam War, young African Americans fought to protect the freedoms of Southeast Asians and died in disproportionate numbers compared to their white counterparts. Despite their sacrifices, black Americans were unable to secure equal rights at home, and because the importance of the war overshadowed the civil rights movement in the minds of politicians and the public, it seemed that further progress might never come. For many African Americans, the bloodshed, loss, and disappointment of war became just another chapter in the history of the civil rights movement. Lawrence Allen Eldridge explores this two-front war, showing how the African American press grappled with the Vietnam War and its impact on the struggle for civil rights. This book is the first to examine coverage of the Vietnam War by black news publications, from the Gulf of Tonkin incident in August 1964 to the final withdrawal of American ground forces in the spring of 1973 and the fall of Saigon in the spring of 1975. Eldridge reveals how the black press not only reported the war but also weighed its significance in the context of the civil rights movement. In analyzing seventeen African American newspapers, the author examines not only the role of reporters during the war, but also those of editors, commentators, and cartoonists. Especially enlightening is the research drawn from extensive oral histories by prominent journalist Ethel Payne, the first African American woman to receive the title of war correspondent. She described a widespread practice in black papers of reworking material from major white papers without providing proper credit, as the demand for news swamped the small budgets and limited staffs of African American papers. The author analyzes both the strengths of the black print media and the weaknesses in their coverage. He augmented this study with a rich array of primary sources--including interviews with black journalists and editors, oral history collections, the personal papers of key figures in the black press, and government documents, including those from the presidential libraries of Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, and Gerald Ford--to trace the ups and downs of U.S. domestic and wartime policy especially as it related to the impact of the war on civil rights. The black press ultimately viewed the Vietnam War through the lens of African American experience, blaming the war for crippling LBJ's Great Society and the War on Poverty. Despite its waning hopes for an improved life, the black press soldiered on.

Vietnam War, 1961-1975 --- Civil rights movements --- African Americans --- African American press --- Vietnam Conflict, 1961-1975 --- Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 --- Vietnamese War, 1961-1975 --- African American journalism --- Afro-American press --- Journalism, African American --- Negro press --- Press, African American --- African American mass media --- Ethnic press --- Public opinion. --- History --- Civil rights --- African Americans. --- Press coverage --- Geschichte 1955-1975. --- United States --- Race relations --- Armed Forces --- Afro-Americans --- Negroes