9780547560694-0547560699-The Defender: How the Legendary Black Newspaper Changed America

The Defender: How the Legendary Black Newspaper Changed America

ISBN-13: 9780547560694
ISBN-10: 0547560699
Edition: First Edition
Author: Ethan Michaeli
Publication date: 2016
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover 656 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780547560694
ISBN-10: 0547560699
Edition: First Edition
Author: Ethan Michaeli
Publication date: 2016
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover 656 pages

Summary

The Defender: How the Legendary Black Newspaper Changed America (ISBN-13: 9780547560694 and ISBN-10: 0547560699), written by authors Ethan Michaeli, was published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in 2016. With an overall rating of 4.1 stars, it's a notable title among other Black & African Americans (United States History, State & Local, Historical Study & Educational Resources, Communication & Media Studies, Social Sciences, Americas History) books. You can easily purchase or rent The Defender: How the Legendary Black Newspaper Changed America (Hardcover) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Black & African Americans books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.57.

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“An extraordinary history…Deeply researched, elegantly written…a towering achievement that will not be soon forgotten.”Brent Staples, New York Times Book Review

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY
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Giving voice to the voiceless, the Chicago Defender condemned Jim Crow, catalyzed the Great Migration, and focused the electoral power of black America. Robert S. Abbott founded The Defender in 1905, smuggled hundreds of thousands of copies into the most isolated communities in the segregated South, and was dubbed a "Modern Moses," becoming one of the first black millionaires in the process. His successor wielded the newspaper’s clout to elect mayors and presidents, including Harry S. Truman and John F. Kennedy, who would have lost in 1960 if not for TheDefender’s support. Along the way, its pages were filled with columns by legends like Ida B. Wells, Langston Hughes, and Martin Luther King.

Drawing on dozens of interviews and extensive archival research, Ethan Michaeli constructs a revelatory narrative of race in America and brings to life the reporters who braved lynch mobs and policemen’s clubs to do their jobs, from the age of Teddy Roosevelt to the age of Barack Obama.
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