Winner of the American Historical Association's 2022 Eugenia M. Palmegiano Prize.

White publishers and editors used their newspapers to build, nurture, and protect white supremacy across the South in the decades after the Civil War. At the same time, a vibrant Black press fought to disrupt these efforts and force the United States to live up to its democratic ideals. Journalism and Jim Crow centers the press as a crucial political actor shaping the rise of the Jim Crow South. The contributors explore the leading role of the white press in constructing an anti-democratic society by promoting and supporting not only lynching and convict labor but also coordinated campaigns of violence and fraud that disenfranchised Black voters. They also examine the Black press's parallel fight for a multiracial democracy of equality, justice, and opportunity for all—a losing battle with tragic consequences for the American experiment.

Original and revelatory, Journalism and Jim Crow opens up new ways of thinking about the complicated relationship between journalism and power in American democracy.

Contributors: Sid Bedingfield, Bryan Bowman, W. Fitzhugh Brundage, Kathy Roberts Forde, Robert Greene II, Kristin L. Gustafson, D'Weston Haywood, Blair LM Kelley, and Razvan Sibii

| Cover Title Page Copyright Contents Foreword Acknowledgments Introduction: Journalism and the World It Built Part One: The Contested New South 1. Architect of the New South 2. Fight for a New America Part Two: Racial Terror and Disenfranchisement 3. The Press and Lynching 4. Mississippi Plan Part Three: Building the Solid South 5. Populist Insurgency, Alabama 6. Tillman's Rebellion, South Carolina 7. Death of Democracy, North Carolina 8. Convict Wars, Tennessee 9. Tourist Empires, Florida Part Four: Measuring the Cost 10. Silencing a Generation Epilogue: Journalism and the World to Come Contributors Index Back cover | Best journalism and mass communication history book published in 2021 by the History Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. — Best journalism and mass communication history book published in 2021 by the History Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication.
Winner of the 2022 AJHA Book Award. — Winner of the 2022 AJHA Book Award
|Kathy Roberts Forde is associate professor of journalism at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She is the author of Literary Journalism on Trial: Masson v. New Yorker and the First Amendment. Sid Bedingfield is associate professor of journalism and mass communication at the University of Minnesota. He is the author of Newspaper Wars: Civil Rights and White Resistance in South Carolina, 1935-1965.