The Press and Race: Mississippi Journalists Confront the Movement

Jeter, James Phillip, Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly

The Press and Race: Mississippi Journalists Confront the Movement. David R. Davies, ed. Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 2001. 302 pp. $30 hbk.

The words "Mississippi" and "racial justice" were antonyms through approximately two-thirds of the twentieth century. When life and social relations were legally defined along racial lines in the United States, Mississippi epitomized the hard line drawn between blacks and whites. Journalism in Mississippi suffered from similar splits as The Press and Race: Mississippi Journalists Confront the Movement illustrates. This volume, edited by David R. Davies, associate professor and chair of the Department of Journalism at the …

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Publication information: Article title: The Press and Race: Mississippi Journalists Confront the Movement. Contributors: Jeter, James Phillip - Author. Journal title: Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly. Volume: 78. Issue: 4 Publication date: Winter 2001. Page number: 866+. © Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Winter 2007. Provided by ProQuest LLC. All Rights Reserved.

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