Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-327) and index.
Contents
Introduction : what a man sees in life he sees in the newspaper -- Go to it, my southern brothers : the rise of the modern black press, the great migration, and the construction of urban black manhood -- Garvey must go : the black press and the making and unmaking of black male leadership -- The fraternity : Robert S. Abbott, John Sengstacke, and a new order in black (male) journalism -- A challenge to our manhood : Robert F. Williams, the civil rights movement, and the decline of the mainstream black press -- Walk the way of free men : Malcolm X, displaying the original man, and troubling the black press as the voice of the race -- Conclusion : now a new day is upon us.