Silencing a Generation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23199504 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Blair LM Kelley (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Pages | 285-304 |
| Publication date | 2021-11-15 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Journalism and Jim Crow (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | University of Illinois Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.5622/illinois/9780252044106.003.0011 |
| OpenAlex | W4285332169 |
| ISBN | 9780252044106 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
This chapter takes readers inside the world of southern Black journalism after the rise of Jim Crow, when hundreds of editors and writers persisted across the region despite the constant threat of white supremacist violence and lynching. This last chapter circles back to Georgia and tells the story of J. Max Barber, editor of The Voice of the Negro, a journal based in Atlanta that challenged the accommodationist views of Booker T. Washington. Barber’s account of race riots in the city in 1906 – particularly his debunking of white newspaper reports accusing Black men of rape – incurred the wrath of white politicians and the white press. Kelley documents the successful campaign to silence the Voice of the Negro and force its editor into exile.
Aesthetics · Art · Atlanta · Journalism · Media studies · Newspaper · Political science · Race (biology) · Silence · Sociology · White (mutation) · Gender Studies · History · Race, History, and American Society
| Citations per year | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |