Mass Communications and the Civil Rights Movement [index]

Ashmore, Harry S.  Epitaph for Dixie.  New York: W.W. Norton, 1957.

Beasley, Maurine, and Richard R. Harlow.  Voices of Change: Southern Pulitzer Winners.  Washington DC: University Press of America, 1979.

Benjamin, Clark F.  "The Editorial Reaction of Selected Southern Black Newspapers to the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-68."  PhD dissertation, Howard University, 1989.

Benn, Alvin.  Reporter: Covering Civil Rights…and Wrongs in Dixie.  Bloomington: Authorhouse, 2006.

Bramlett-Solomon, Sharon.  "Civil Rights Vanguard in the Deep South: Newspaper Portrayal of Fannie Lou Hamer, 1964-1977."  Journalism Quarterly 68 (1991): 515-21.

Breaux, Richard M.  “Using the Press to Fight Jim Crow at Two White Midwestern Universities, 1900–1940.” in The History of Discrimination in U.S. Education: Marginality, Agency, and Power, ed. Eileen H. Tamura, 141–64. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.  

Carney, Robert.  What Happened at the Atlanta Times.  Atlanta: Business Press, 1969.  

Carter, Hodding.  “A Southern Liberal Looks at Civil Rights.”  New York Times Magazine (8 August 1948).

Clark, Roy Peter, and Raymond Arsenault, eds.  The Changing South of Gene Patterson: Journalism and Civil Rights, 1960-1968.  Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 2002.

Classen, Steven D.  Watching Jim Crow: The Struggle over Mississippi TV, 955-1969.  Durham: Duke University Press, 2004.

Cumming, Douglas O.  "Finding Facts, Facing South: The Southern Education Reporting Service and the Effort to Inform the South after Brown v. Board, 1954-1960."  PhD dissertation, University of North Carolina, 2002.

Cumming, Doug.  “Building Resentment: How the Alabama Press Prepared the Ground for New York Times v. Sullivan.”  American Journalism 22:3 (Summer 2005): 7-32.

Cygan, Mary E.  "A Man of His Times: Paul Robeson and the Press, 1924-1976."  Pennsylvania History 66:1 (Winter 1999):27-46.

Davies, David R., ed.  The Press and Race: Mississippi Journalists Confront the Movement.  Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2001.*

Drabble, John.  “Fighting Black Power- New Left Coalitions: Covert FBI Media Campaigns and American Cultural Discourse.”  European Journal of American Culture 27:2 (2008): 65-91.

Dudziak, Mary L.  Cold War Civil Rights: Race and the Image of American Democracy.  Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000.

Eagles, Charles W.  Jonathan Daniels and Race Relations: The Evolution of a Southern Liberal.  Knoxville: University Press of Tennessee, 1982.

Fluker, Laurie Hayer.  “The Making of a Medium and a Movement: National Broadcasting Company’s Coverage of the Civil Rights Movement.”  PhD dissertation, University of Texas, 1996.

Fisher, Paul L., and Ralph L. Lowenstein, eds.  Race and the News Media.  New York: Praeger, 1967.

Fleming, Karl.  Son of the Rough South: An Uncivil Memoir.  New York: Public Affairs Press, 2005.  (Newsweek)

Flournoy, John Craig.  “Reporting the Movement in Black and White: The Emmett Till Lynching and the  Montgomery Bus Boycott.”  PhD dissertation, Louisiana State University, 2003.

Friedman, Barbara G.  “A National Disgrace’: Newspaper Coverage of the 1963 Birmingham Campaign in the South and Beyond.”  Journalism History 33:4 (Winter 2008):  224-232.

Good, Paul.  The Trouble I’ve Seen: White Journalist/Black Movement.  Washington DC: Howard University Press, 1975.

Graham, Allison.  Framing the South: Hollywood, Television, and the Civil Rights Struggle.  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001.

Graham, Hugh Davis.  Crisis in Print: Desegregation and the Press in Tennessee.  Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 1967.

Grimes, Charlotte.  “Civil Rights and the Press: A Debate.”  Journalism Studies 6:1 (February 2005): 117-134.

Grindy, Matthew A.  “Mississippi Terror, Red Pressure: The Daily Worker’s Coverage of the Emmett Till Murder.”  Controversia 6:1 (Spring 2008): 39-66.

Heron, Matt.  “Charles Moore: Civil Rights Photographer.” ASMP Bulletin (February 1993).

Hilliard, David, ed.  The Black Panther Intercommunal News Service. New York: Atria, 2007.

Hobson, Fred, ed.  South-Watching: Selected Essays by Gerald W Johnson.  Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1983.

Hon, Linda Childers.  "To Redeem the Soul of America: Public Relations and the Civil Rights Movement."  Journal of Public Relations Research 9:3 (1997): 163-212.

Houck, Davis W., and Matthew A. Grindy.  Emmett Till and the Mississippi Press.  Jackson: University Press of Press, 2008.

Jenkins, Earnestine. "The 'Voice of Memphis': WDIA, Nat D. Williams, and Black Radio Culture in the Early Civil Rights Era."  Tennessee Historical Quarterly 65 (Fall 2006): 254-67.

Joseph, Peniel E., ed. The Black Power Movement: Rethinking the Civil Rights–Black Power Era.  New York: Routledge, 2006.

Kaplan, John. "The Life Magazine Civil Rights Photography of Charles Moore."  Journalism History 25:4 (Autumn 1999): 126-39.

Kasher, Steven.  The Civil Rights Movement: A Photographic History.  New York: Abbeville Press, 1996.

Kempton, Murray.  America Comes of Age: Columns, 1955-1962.  Boston: Little, Brown, 1963.

Kern-Foxworth, Marilyn.  "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Minister, Activist, Public Opinion Leader."  Public Relations Review 18 (Fall 1992): 287-96.

Klein, Woody.  “News Media and Race Relations: A Self-Portrait.”  Columbia Journalism Review (Fall 1968): 42-65.

Kuettner, Al.  March to a Promised Land: The Civil Rights Files of a White Reporter, 1952–1968.  Sterling: Capital Books, 2006.

Leidholdt, Alex. “Virginius Dabney and Lenoir Chambers: Two Southern Liberal Newspaper Editors Face Virginia’s Massive Resistance to Public School Integration.” American Journalism 15, no. 4 (1998): 35–68.

Lentz, Richard.  "The Resurrection of the Prophet: Martin Luther King and the Newsweeklies."  American Journalism 4:2 (1987): 59-81.

Lentz, Richard.  "The Prophet and the Citadel: News Magazine Coverage of the 1963 Birmingham Civil Rights Crisis."  Communication 10:1 (1987): 5-30.

Lewis, Anthony.  Portrait of a Decade: A Second American Revolution.  New York: Random House, 1964.

Lyle, Jack, ed.  The Black American and the Press.  Los Angeles: W. Ritchie Press, 1968.

McGill, Ralph. The South and the Southerner.  Boston: Little, Brown, 1963.

McGill, Ralph. The Best of Ralph McGill: Selected Columns.  Atlanta: Cherokee Publishing, 1980.  

Mace, Darryl Christopher. “Regional Identities and Racial Messages: The Print Media’s Stories of Emmett Till.”  PhD dissertation, Temple University, 2007.

Martindale, Carolyn.  The White Press and Black America.  New York: Greenwood, 1986.

Mellinger, Gweneth.  “Rekindling the Fire: The Compromise that Initiated the Formal Integrations of Daily Newspaper Newsrooms.  American Journalism 25:3 (Summer 2008): 97-126.

Miller, Karen S. “‘Typical Slime by Joe McCarthy’: Ralph McGill and Anti-McCarthyism in the South.” American Journalism 13, no. 3 (1996): 319–32.

Mills, Kay.  Changing Channels: The Civil Rights Case that Transformed Television.  Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2004.

Murphee, Vanessa D.  "The Selling of Civil Rights: The Communication Section of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee."  Journalism History 29:1 (Spring 2003): 21-31.

Murphree, Vanessa.  The Selling of Civil Rights: The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and the Use of Public Relations.  New York: Routledge, 2006.

Mugleston, William F.  “Julian Harris, the Georgia Press, and the Ku Klux Klan.”  Georgia Historical Quarterly 59 (Fall 1975): 284-295.

Mumford, Kevin. “Harvesting the Crisis: The Newark Uprising, the Kerner Commission, and Writings on Riots,” in African American Urban History since World War II, ed. Kenneth L. Kusmer and Joe W. Trotter.  Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009.

Newman, Kathy M.  "The Forgotten Fifteen Million: Black Radio, the 'Negro Market,' and the Civil Rights Movement."  Radical History Review 76 (Winter 2000): 115-135.

Odum-Hinmon, Maria E.  “The Cautious Crusader: How the Atlanta Daily World Covered the Struggle for African American Rights from 1945 to 1985.”  PhD dissertation, University of Maryland- College Park, 2005.

Poucher, Judith G.  “Raising Her Voice: Ruth Perry, Activist and Journalist for the Miami NAACP.”  Florida Historical Quarterly 84 (Spring 2006): 517–40.

Raiford, Leigh. “‘Come Let Us Build a New World Together’: SNCC and Photography of the Civil Rights Movement.”  American Quarterly 59 (December 2007): 1129–1157.

Reporting Civil Rights: American Journalism 1941-1973.  2 vols.  New York: Library of America, 2003.

Rhodes, Jane.  Framing the Black Panthers: The Spectacular Rise of a Black Power Icon.  New York: New Press, 2007.

Richardson Walton, Laura.  “In Their Own Backyard: Local Press Coverage of the Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner Murders.”  American Journalism 23:3 (Summer 2006): 29-51.

Richardson Walton, Laura.  “Organizing Resistance: The Use of Public Relations by the Citizen’s Council in Mississippi, 1954-64.” Journalism History 35:1 (Spring 2009): 23-33.

Ritchie, Donald A.  “Race, Rules, and Reporting.”  Media Studies Journal 10 (Winter 1996): 133-142.

Roberts, Gene, and Hank Klibanoff.  The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation.  New York: Knopf, 2006.

Rocksborough-Smith, Ian.  “‘Filling the Gap’: Intergenerational Black Radicalism and the Popular Front Ideals of Freedomways Magazine’s Early Years, 1961–1965.” Afro-Americans in New York Life and History  31 (January 2007): 7–42.

Romano, Renee C., and Leigh Raiford, eds.  The Civil Rights Movement in American Memory.  Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2006.

Ross, Susan D.  "Their Rising Voices: A Study of Civil Rights, Social Movements, and Advertising in the New York Times."  Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly 75:3 (Autumn 1998): 518-534.

Rowan, Carl T.  South of Freedom.  New York: Knopf, 1952.

Rowan, Carl T.  Go South To Sorrow.  New York: Random House, 1957.

Rubeck, Tracie L.  “Racial Harmony through Clenched Teeth: Remembering the Civil Rights Movement in ‘Newsweek’ and the ‘CBS Evening News,’ 1990–1999.”  PhD dissertation, University of Michigan, 2006.

Schwalbe, Carol B.  “Images of Brutality: The Portrayal of U.S. Racial Violence in News Photographs Published Overseas (1957–1963).”  American Journalism 23 (Fall 2006), 93–116.

Secrest, Andrew McDowd.  “In Black and White: Press Opinion and Race Relations in South Carolina, 1954-1964.”  PhD dissertation, Duke University, 1971.

Sosna, Morton.  In Search of the Silent South: Southern Liberals and the Race Issue.  New York: Columbia University Press, 1977.

Spearman, Walter, and Sylvan Meyer.  Racial Crisis and the Press.  Atlanta: Southern Regional Council, 1960.

Spigel, Lynn and Michael Curtin, eds., The Revolution Wasn't Televised: Sixties Television and Social Conflict.  London: Routledge, 1997.

Spratt, Meg.  “When Police Dogs Attacked: Iconic News Photographs and Construction of History, Mythology, and Political Discourse.”  American Journalism 25 (Spring 2008): 85–105. Heavily illustrated.

Spruill, Larry Hawthorne.  “Southern Exposure: Photography and the Civil Rights Movement, 1955-1968.”  PhD dissertation, State University of New York- Stony Brook, 1983.

Smith, Melissa M.  "States' Rights, Intellectual Snobs, and Religious Redemption: Three Decades of George C. Wallace and the Media."  PhD dissertation, University of Alabama, 2003.

Stabile, Carol A.  White Victims, Black Villains: Gender, Race, and Crime News in U.S. Culture.  New York: Routledge, 2006.

Stockley, Grif.  Daisy Bates: Civil Rights Crusader from Arkansas.  Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2005.

Summer, David E.  "A Clash Over Race: Tennessee Governor Ellington versus CBS, 1960." Journalism Quarterly 68 (1991): 541-47.

Tinson, Christopher M.  “The Voice of the Black Protest Movement’:  Notes on the Liberator Magazine and Black Radicalism in the Early 1960s.”  Black Scholar 37:4 (Winter 2008): 3-15.

Torres, Sasha.  Black, White, and in Color: Television and Black Civil Rights.  Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000.

Trice, Mike. “Religious Newspaper Coverage of the Civil Rights Struggle: 1954–1964.” PhD dissertation, University of Southern Mississippi, 2006.

Tyson, Timothy B. Radio Free Dixie: Robert F. Williams and the Roots of Black Power.  Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999.

Vaughan, Don Rodney. “The New York Times and the Civil Rights Movement, 1954–1964.”  PhD dissertation, University of Southern Mississippi, 2006.

Verney, Kevern.  African Americans and US Popular Culture.  New York: Routledge, 2003.

Walton, Laura Richardson. “Segregationist Spin: The Use of the Public Relations by the Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission and the White Citizens’ Council, 1954–1973.”  PhD dissertation, University of Southern Mississippi, 2006.

Ward, Brian, ed.  Media, Culture, and the Modern African-American Freedom Struggle.  Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 2001.

Ward, Brian.  Radio and the Struggle for Civil Rights in the South.  Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 2004.

Weill, Susan. “Conserving Racial Segregation in 1954: Brown v. Board of Education and the Mississippi Daily Press.” American Journalism 16, no. 4 (1999): 77–99.

Weill, Susan.  “Hazel and the Hacksaw: Freedom Summer Coverage by the Women of the Mississippi Press.”  Journalism Studies 2:4 (November 2001): 545-561.

Weill, Susan.  In the Madhouse's Din: Civil Rights Coverage by the Mississippi Daily Press.  Westport, CT: Praeger, 2002.

Williams, Julian. “Black Radio and Civil Rights: Birmingham, 1956–1963” Journal of Radio Studies 12 (May 2005): 47–60.

Williams, Julian.  “The Truth Shall Make You Free: The Mississippi Free Press, 1961-63.”  Journalism History 32:2 (Summer 2006): 106-112.

Willis, Deborah.  “Visualizing Political Struggle: Civil Rights–Era Photography,” in American Visual Cultures, ed. David Holloway and John Beck,  New York: Continuum, 2005.

Willis, L. Anne, and Susan L. Brinson. “Press Control during Auburn University’s Desegregation.”  Journalism History 33 (Summer 2007): 70–78.

Wolseley, Roland E.  The Black Press: U.S.A.  Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1990.