{"product_id":"newspaper-wars-9780252041228","title":"Newspaper Wars","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGeorge C. Rogers Jr. Award, South Carolina Historical Society, 2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"This work is a valuable contribution that expresses how the minute can explain the whole and civil rights began as a grassroots movement, propagated by the influence of African American newspapers, and expanded in several places concomitantly as African Americans began to reclaim the rights that had been denied to them for so long.\" --\u003ci\u003eJournal of African American History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eNewspaper Wars\u003c\/i\u003e is a timely book that brings traditionally marginal figures to the fore.\" --\u003ci\u003eAmerican Historical Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\"This well-written, deeply contextualized book is as much a political history of South Carolina as it is an examination of race and journalism. . . . A commendable study that advances knowledge of the southern press in the civil rights era.\"--\u003ci\u003eAmerican Journalism\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Sid Bedingfield offers a brilliantly fresh account of the peak decades of the civil rights movement--a time when newspapers shaped the contours of civic discourse and political debate. More than an essential history of the civil rights movement in South Carolina, Newspaper Wars recasts our understanding of the civil rights era and the enduring struggles around race and citizenship.\"--Patricia Sullivan, author of \u003ci\u003eLift Every Voice: The NAACP and the Making of the Civil Rights Movement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The narrative strength of \u003ci\u003eNewspaper Wars\u003c\/i\u003e rests on Bedingfield's thorough research. . . . The result is a commendable study that advances knowledge of the southern press in the civil rights era.\"--\u003ci\u003eAmerican Journalism\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eNewspaper Wars: Civil Rights and White Resistance in South Carolina, 1935-1965\u003c\/i\u003e not only remedies a lack of scholarship on the press in South Carolina but also shows how newspapers shaped the course of social and political change.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe Journal of Southern History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eNewspaper Wars\u003c\/i\u003e is a timely book that brings traditionally marginal figures to the fore.\" --\u003ci\u003eAmerican Historical Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eNewspaper Wars\u003c\/i\u003e is a strong, important study of black journalism, state-level organizing, and the role that journalists play in shaping the assumptions of the public sphere, assumptions that conditioned the discussions that created civil rights success in South Carolina.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe Journal of American History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Very well written and enjoyable to read. Journalists, Sid Bedingfield persuasively demonstrates, did not just document the civil rights movement in South Carolina, but rather they actively influenced its course and outcomes.\"--Michael Stamm, author of \u003ci\u003eSound Business: Newspapers, Radio, and the Politics of New Media\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"University of Illinois Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400440947031,"sku":"9780252041228","price":77.35,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780252041228.jpg?v=1730470687","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/newspaper-wars-9780252041228","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}