In a Madhouse's Din : Civil Rights Coverage by Mississippi's Daily Press, 1948-1968.

Cover -- In a Madhouse's Din -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- In a Madhouse's Din -- Chapter 1 Civil Rights and the Mississippi Daily Press: An Introduction -- CIVIL RIGHTS AND AMERICAN LAW -- CIVIL RIGHTS AND AMERICAN PRESS COVERAGE: AN OVERVIEW -- THE MISSISSIPPI DAILY PRESS, 1948-1968 -- THE MISSISSIPPI PRESS AND STUDIES OF CIVIL RIGHTS COVERAGE -- OTHER AMERICAN MEDIA AND STUDIES OF RACE AND CIVIL RIGHTS -- METHOD OF RESEARCH AND QUESTIONS EXPLORED -- NOTES -- Chapter 2 1948: The Dixiecrats and the Mississippi Daily Press -- PRESIDENT TRUMAN'S CIVIL RIGHTS PLATFORM -- THE "DRAFT IKE" MOVEMENT -- DIXIECRAT PROTEST AT THE DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION -- THE DIXIECRATS WALK -- THE DIXIECRAT CONVENTION IN ALABAMA -- THE MISSISSIPPI DAILY PRESS RESPONDS -- SUMMARY OF DIXIECRAT COVERAGE -- NOTES -- Chapter 3 1954: Brown v. Board of Education and the Mississippi Daily Press -- EDITORIAL RESPONSE TO BROWN -- MISSISSIPPI LEADERSHIP RESPONDS TO BROWN -- "DAMN FOOL REMARKS" -- "SEPARATE BUT EQUAL" PROPOSED AND DEBATED -- ABOLISHMENT OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS CONSIDERED -- SUMMARY OF COVERAGE OF BROWN V. BOARD OF EDUCATION -- NOTES -- Chapter 4 1962: The Desegregation of Ole Miss and the Mississippi Daily Press -- GOVERNOR ROSS BARNETT RESISTS THE COURT -- BARNETT PROPOSES INTERPOSITION: "BAYING AT THE MOON" -- CROSS BURNED, EFFIGY HANGED AT OLE MISS -- INJUNCTION AND LEGISLATION AGAINST MEREDITH -- REACTION BY MISSISSIPPI OFFICIALS -- QUANDARY OF STATE COLLEGE BOARD -- OLE MISS ACCREDITATION AT STAKE -- BARNETT FINED FOR CONTEMPT -- MEREDITH GOES TO OLE MISS -- THE RIOT -- THE EDITORS RESPOND -- SUMMARY OF COVERAGE OF THE DESEGREGATION OF OLE MISS -- NOTES -- Chapter 5 1964: Freedom Summer and the Mississippi Daily Press -- THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT OF 1964 -- MISSISSIPPI EDITORS REACT TO THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT OF 1964.

PRESIDENT LYNDON JOHNSON AND THE MISSISSIPPI DAILY PRESS -- CIVIL RIGHTS COMPLIANCE AND THE MISSISSIPPI DAILY PRESS -- MISSISSIPPI FREEDOM DEMOCRATS AND THE MISSISSIPPI DAILY PRESS -- EDUCATION CONTROVERSIES DURING FREEDOM SUMMER -- WHITE SUPREMACIST GROUPS AND FREEDOM SUMMER -- FREEDOM SUMMER VOLUNTEERS ARRIVE IN MISSISSIPPI -- THE MURDERED TRIO -- COVERAGE OF FREEDOM SUMMER ACTIVITIES -- SUMMARY OF COVERAGE -- NOTES -- Chapter 6 1968: The Death of Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Mississippi Daily Press -- MISSISSIPPI DAILY PRESS RESPONSE TO KING'S ASSASSINATION -- SUMMARY OF COVERAGE -- NOTES -- Chapter 7 Conclusion -- A COMPLEX SITUATION -- A NATIONAL PROBLEM -- THE AMERICAN PRESS: WHITE OWNERSHIP, WHITE BIAS -- SOCIALLY RESPONSIBLE-OR NOT -- SUMMARY OF COVERAGE -- Rejection of Equal Rights and Integration -- "Us against Them" -- Did Not Condone Violence -- Jackson Clarion-Ledger and Daily News: Sometimes Representative, Sometimes Not -- Localized Coverage -- A SLOW, BUT STEADY, TRANSFORMATION -- NOTES -- Appendix 1 Mississippi Daily Press Editors -- Appendix 2 Mississippi Daily Press Circulation -- Appendix 3 Population Statistics of Mississippi Counties with Daily Newspapers, 1948-1968 -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.