{"product_id":"grapevine-of-the-black-south-the-scott-newspaper-syndicate-in-the-generation-before-the-civil-rights-movement-9780820354453","title":"Grapevine of the Black South: The Scott Newspaper Syndicate in the Generation Before the Civil Rights Movement","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the summer of 1928, William Alexander Scott began a small four-page weekly with the help of his brother Cornelius. In 1930 his \u003cem\u003eAtlanta World \u003c\/em\u003ebecame a semiweekly, and the following year W. A. began to implement his vision for a massive newspaper chain based out of Atlanta: the Southern Newspaper Syndicate, later dubbed the Scott Newspaper Syndicate\u003cem\u003e. \u003c\/em\u003eIn April 1931 the \u003cem\u003eWorld \u003c\/em\u003ehad become a triweekly, and its reach began drifting beyond the South.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith \u003cem\u003eThe Grapevine of the Black South\u003c\/em\u003e, Thomas Aiello offers the first critical history of this influential newspaper syndicate, from its roots in the 1930s through its end in the 1950s. At its heyday, more than 240 papers were associated with the Syndicate, making it one of the biggest organs of the black press during the period leading up to the classic civil rights era (1955-68).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the generation that followed, the Syndicate helped formalize knowledge among the African American population in the South. As the civil rights movement exploded throughout the region, black southerners found a collective identity in that struggle built on the commonality of the news and the subsequent interpretation of that news. Or as Gunnar Myrdal explained, the press was \"the chief agency of group control. It [told] the individual how he should think and feel as an American Negro and create[d] a tremendous power of suggestion by implying that all other Negroes think and feel in this manner.\" It didn't create a complete homogeneity in black southern thinking, but it gave thinkers a similar set of tools from which to draw.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Thomas Aiello\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Georgia Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/01\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 310\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.83lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.77d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780820354453\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHOMAS AIELLO is an associate professor of history at Valdosta State University and the author of many publications, including \u003ci\u003eThe Battle for the Souls of Black Folk: W. E. B. Du Bois, Booker T. Washington, and the Debate That Shaped the Course of Civil Rights\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eJim Crow's Last Stand: Nonunanimous Criminal Jury Verdicts in Louisiana\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eThe Kings of Casino Park: Black Baseball in the Lost Season of 1932.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Georgia Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40198544261235,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":34.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_2696c2af-3514-43a1-8abe-37b17cb13729.jpg?v=1656078417","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/grapevine-of-the-black-south-the-scott-newspaper-syndicate-in-the-generation-before-the-civil-rights-movement-9780820354453","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}