A DIGITAL HISTORY PROJECT
ABOUT THE BLACK PRESS
AND THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT
Negro Newspapers and Periodicals in the United States
US Commerce Bureau, 1937
US Commerce Bureau, 1937
AVAILABLE NOW!"A House for the Struggle breaks new ground by assessing Chicago's Black newspapers and magazines together, and by connecting them to the buildings and neighborhoods where they operated. West helps us to understand Chicago as the true capital of the twentieth-century Black press" - Julia Guarneri
"West's compelling narrative takes us inside the newsrooms of the Defender, Ebony, and other rival publications; from their humble origins to the height of their power. But what makes this book extraordinary is how West examines these shifting Black spaces of journalism as crucial sites of intellectual labor, ideological debate, and enterprise that profoundly shaped Chicago urban history, Black identity, and protest politics" - Eric Gellman |
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