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A controversial journalists experiences while working as editor for African American publications in Chicago.

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title:Nitty Gritty : A White Editor in Black Journalism
author:Burns, Ben.
publisher:University Press of Mississippi
isbn10 | asin:0878058125
print isbn13:9780878058129
ebook isbn13:9780585031897
language:English
subjectAfrican American periodicals--History, Burns, Ben, Newspaper editors--United States--Biography.
publication date:1996
lcc:PN4882.5.B87 1996eb
ddc:051/.092
subject:African American periodicals--History, Burns, Ben, Newspaper editors--United States--Biography.
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Nitty
Gritty
A White Editor
in Black Journalism
Ben Burns
UNIVERSITY PRESS OF MISSISSIPPI
Jackson
Page iv
Copyright 1996 by the University Press of Mississippi
All rights reserved
Manufactured in the United States of America
99 98 97 96 4 3 2 1
The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Committee
on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on Library Resources.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Burns, Ben.
Nitty gritty: a white editor in black journalism/Ben Burns.
p. cm
Includes index.
ISBN 0-87805-812-5 (cloth : alk. paper)
1. Afro-American periodicalsHistory. 2. Burns, Ben. 3. Newspaper editors
United StatesBiography. I. Title.
PN4882.5.B87 1996
051'.092-dc20
[B]Picture 3Picture 4Picture 5Picture 6Picture 795-32890
Picture 8Picture 9Picture 10Picture 11Picture 12CIP
British Library Cataloging-in-Publication data available
Page v
To
Esther,
whose upbeat encouragement,
persevering racial open-mindedness,
infinite patience,
and staunch loyalty
made possible my hectic years
in black journalism and this book
Page vii
Not to transmit an experience is to betray it.
Elie Wiesel
Page ix
Contents
Preface
xi
PART I. 19411945
1.
Introduction to the Black Press: My Years with the Chicago Defender
3
2.
The First Commercially Successful Negro Magazine
27
3.
A Premature Anti-Racist
44
PART II. 19301940
4.
Invisible Men and Communists
55
PART III. 19451954
5.
Paris, Labor Skates, and Gertrude Stein
73
6.
The Happier Side of Negro Life
83
7.
The First, the Only, the Biggest
94
8.
Finally in the Big Time
106
9.
That White Man at Ebony
129
10.
Staff Troubles and Anti-Semitism
144
11.
Racism on the High Seas and in Europe
154
12.
The Richard Wright Squabble
166
13.
Paris and Parting
183
PART IV. 19551977
14.
My Second-Best Career
195
15.
Back at the Defender and Off to Africa
210
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