Burning Crosses and Activist Journalism - Hazel Brannon Smith and the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement

Informationen zum Autor Jan Whitt is a professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Colorado at Boulder. An award-winning author who has written more than seventy articles and book chapters! she also has written several books: Allegory and the Modern Southern Novel (Mercer University Press! 1994)! Settling the Borderland: Other Voices in Literary Journalism (University Press of America 2008)! and Women in American Journalism: A New History (University of Illinois Press! 2008). She edited Reflections in a Critical Eye: Essays on Carson McCullers (University Press of America! 2007). Klappentext This book celebrates the contributions of the first woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing. Owner and publisher of four weekly newspapers in Mississippi! Smith began her journalism career as a states rights Dixiecrat and segregationist! but became an icon for progressive thought on racial and ethnic issues. Zusammenfassung This book celebrates the contributions of the first woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing. Owner and publisher of four weekly newspapers in Mississippi! Smith began her journalism career as a states rights Dixiecrat and segregationist! but became an icon for progressive thought on racial and ethnic issues. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1 Introduction: The American South in Literature and Popular Culture Chapter 2 Preface Chapter 3 Acknowledgements Chapter 4 Chapter 1: The Unlikely Heroism of Hazel Brannon Smith Chapter 5 Chapter 2: Hazel Brannon Smith and Editor Ira B. Harkey Jr. Chapter 6 Chapter 3: White Hate Groups and Mississippi Newspapers Chapter 7 Chapter 4: White Civil Rights Editors and Hazel Brannon Smith Chapter 8 Chapter 5: Racial Issues in Southern Literature and Journalism Chapter 9 Conclusion: The Legacy of Civil Rights Journalism Chapter 10 Works Cited Chapter 11 Index Chapter 12 About the Author ...

Product details

• Authors: Jan Whitt, Whitt Jan
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.12.2009
• EAN: 9780761849551
• ISBN: 978-0-7618-4955-1
• No. of pages: 152
• Dimensions: 229 mm x 279 mm x 6 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Essays, feuilletons, literary criticism, interviews; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Communication science; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Journalism, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Communication Studies, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, Reportage & collected journalism, Communication Studies, Gender studies, gender groups, Gender studies: women, History of the Americas, Gender studies: women & girls