The Defender: How the Legendary Black Newspaper Changed America

"An extraordinary history...Deeply researched, elegantly written...a towering achievement that will not be soon forgotten."--Brent Staples, New York...
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Author: Ethan Michaeli
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The Defender: How the Legendary Black Newspaper Changed America by Michaeli, Ethan

The Defender: How the Legendary Black Newspaper Changed America

$44.90

The Defender: How the Legendary Black Newspaper Changed America

$44.90
Author: Ethan Michaeli
Format: Paperback
Language: English

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

"[This] epic, meticulously detailed account not only reminds its readers that newspapers matter, but so do black lives, past and present."--USA Today

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, 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 The Defender's support.

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.



Author: Ethan Michaeli
Publisher: Mariner Books
Published: 03/06/2018
Pages: 672
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 7.80h x 5.30w x 2.00d
ISBN: 9781328470249

About the Author
ETHAN MICHAELI is an award-winning author, publisher, and journalist, and was a copyeditor and investigative reporter at The Defender from 1991 to 1996. His first book, The Defender, was a finalist for the Mark Lynton History Prize.

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