African-Americans and Print Media
Lecture 11 - Tuesday, October 9, 2007
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Classroom Activities

In-class video, "Color Blind: the Face of Scripps is Changing as Our Work Force Becomes More Diverse", from Scripps-Howard News (vol. 8, no. 1, First half, 2001).
 

Required Readings

1.  Danky, "Introduction: The Black Press and White Institutions."
2.  Dorinson, Joseph and Joralm Warmund, "The Radical Press/Agenda."  
3.  Gates, Henry Louis, Jr., "Forward."
4.  Kessler, "The Freedom Train.

Freedom's Journal website

Additional Background Material

Hodges, Graham Russell.  "David Ruggels: the Hazards of Anti-Slavery Journalism". Spring/Summer 2000

Miller, Sally M. (ed.). The Ethnic Press in the United States:  A Historical Analysis and Handbook.  459 pages.   Westport, CT:  Greenwood Press.  1987.  ISBN 0313238790.

Newkirk, Pamela.  "Ida B. Wells-Barnett," Media Studies Journal. Spring/Summer 2000.

McBride, Genevieve G.  "The Progress of 'Race Men' and 'Colored Women' in the Black Press in Wisconsin, 1892-1985."

McNally, Joel.  "Rich, Black and Angry", Milwaukee Magazine, Feb. 2000.

African-American Sources - examples

 

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