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Record Nr.

UNINA9910814008603321

Autore

Broussard Jinx C (Jinx Coleman), <1949->

Titolo

Giving a voice to the voiceless [[electronic resource] ] : four pioneering black women journalists / / Jinx Coleman Broussard

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Routledge, 2004

ISBN

1-135-93829-6

0-429-23312-4

1-282-37326-9

1-280-23186-6

9786612373268

9786610231867

0-203-51640-0

0-203-48892-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (191 p.)

Collana

Studies in African American history and culture

Disciplina

070.92/273

B

Soggetti

African American women journalists

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-212) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Ida B. Wells-Barnett: militant muckraker -- Mary Church Terrell: captivating crusader -- Alice Dunbar-Nelson: writing during the jim Crow era -- Amy Jacques Garvey: mouthpiece for a movement -- Synthesis.

Sommario/riassunto

This work describes the journalism careers of four black women within the context of the period in which they lived and worked. Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Mary Church Terrell, Alice Dunbar-Nelson and Amy Jacques Garvey were among a group of approximately twenty black women journalists who wrote for newspapers, magazines and other media during the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century.