The Baltimore Afro-American: 1892-1950 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780313305177)

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.

Author: Hayward Farrar
ISBN-10: 031330517X
ISBN-13: 9780313305177
Publisher: Praeger
Language: English
Published: 05/21/1998
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.08lbs
Size: 9.35h x 6.17w x 0.99d