Chasing newsroom diversity from Jim Crow to affirmative action /

Mellinger, Gwyneth,

Chasing newsroom diversity from Jim Crow to affirmative action / Gwyneth Mellinger. - Urbana : University of Illinois Press, (c)2013. - 1 online resource (x, 236 pages). - The history of communication .

Includes bibliographies and index.

Introduction: the black and white of newspapers -- Manning the barricade: maintaining the white prerogative in the face of change, 1954-1967 -- Seeking justice in a climate of irony: the hiring initiative's uneasy prelude, 1968-1976 -- "A sensitive and difficult task": establishing a framework for newsroom integration, 1977-1989 -- The gay Nineties: reimagining and renegotiating a multicultural newsroom -- Diversity in crisis: ASNE's time of reckoning, 1998-2002 -- Afterword: closing a chapter of newspaper history.



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Minority journalists--United States.
African Americans in the newspaper industry.
Minorities in journalism--United States.
American newspapers--History--20th century.
Diversity in the workplace--United States.
Minorities--Employment--United States.


Electronic Books.

PN4797 / .C437 2013