The Rise and Fall of the Associated Negro Press (ePub)

For more than fifty 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 journalism, 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. A member of the African American elite, Barnett's sympathies with black aspirations often clashed with his ethics and a powerful desire to join the upper echelons of business and government. In the end, Barnett's activist success undid his work. Horne traces the dramatic story of the ANP's collapse as the mainstream press, retreating from Jim Crow, finally covered black issues and hired African American journalists.|
Contents
Introduction
1. Beginnings
2. Haiti and the Bolshevik Revolution
3. World War Looms
4. War Changes
5. Red Scare Rising
6. Back to Africa
7. Cold War Coming
8. Negroes as Anticommunist Propagandists?
9. Barnett Bestrides the Globe
10. Pan-Africanism Is the News
11. The Jim Crow Paradox
Notes
Index|Gerald Horne is the John and Rebecca Moores Professor of History and African American studies at the University of Houston. His many books include Black Revolutionary: William Patterson and the Globalization of the African American Freedom Struggle .