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Author Horne, Gerald, author

Title The rise and fall of the Associated Negro Press : Claude Barnett's pan-African news and the Jim Crow paradox / Gerald Horne
Published Urbana : University of Illinois, [2017]

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Contents Beginnings -- Haiti and the Bolshevik Revolution -- World war looms -- War changes -- Red scare rising -- Back to Africa -- Cold War coming -- Negroes as anticommunist propagandists? -- Barnett Bestrides the globe -- Pan-Africanism is the news -- The Jim Crow paradox
Summary For more than 50 years, the Chicago-based Associated Negro Press (ANP) fought racism at home and grew into an international news organization abroad. At its head stood founder Claude Barnett, one of the most influential African Americans of his day and a gifted, if unofficial, diplomat who forged links with figures as diverse as Jawaharlal Nehru, Zora Neale Hurston, and Richard Nixon. Gerald Horne weaves Barnett's fascinating life story through a groundbreaking history of the ANP, including its deep dedication to Pan-Africanism. An activist force in journalist, Barnett also helped send doctors and teachers to Africa, advised African governments, gave priority to foreign newsgathering, and saw the African American struggle in global terms. Yet Horne also confronts Barnett's contradictions
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Barnett, Claude, 1889-1967.
SUBJECT Barnett, Claude, 1889-1967 fast
Subject Associated Negro Press -- History
SUBJECT Associated Negro Press fast
Subject LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Journalism.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2017016657
ISBN 9780252099762
0252099761