- 240 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
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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Table of contents
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1. Steady and Sure: The Afro-American's Business Advancement
- 2. But Slowly: The Afro-American and Black Education
- 3. Failure, Futility, and Frustration: The Afro-American as a Political Force
- 4. A Place to Work, a Place to Own, a Place to Live: The Afro-American's Crusade for Jobs, Business, and Housing
- 5. And Justice for All: The Afro-American's Crusade for Criminal Justice
- 6. Lifting as It Climbed: The Afro-American's Morality Crusades
- 7. Which Way for the Black Community?: The Afro-American Considers Washington, Du Bois, Garvey, and Communism
- 8. In War and Peace: The Afro-American Covers the World
- 9. A Public Place for Black Folk: The Afro-American's Civil Rights Crusades
- Epilogue
- A Note on Sources
- Selected Bibliography
- Index