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A prolific and award-winning author, Kathy Roberts Forde is a journalism historian who studies and writes about in the First Amendment, democracy and public sphere, the African American freedom struggle, literary journalism, and the history of the book and print culture.

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The new book “Journalism and Jim Crow” describes the years after the civil war when white newspapers in the South helped build white supremacist social orders using the tools of racial terror.  

The authors go on to detail how Black journalists fought back and demanding that the United States live up to its founding democratic ideals. 

Co-editor Kathy Roberts Forde, professor of journalism at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and contributor D’Weston Haywood, associate professor of history at Hunter College at the City University of New York, join Marc Lamont Hill on “Black News Tonight” to discuss. 

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BNC News: White Media’s Impact in Creating Jim Crow South

In this episode, host Anotida Chikumbu talks with Kathy Roberts Forde, an American journalism historian with research interests in democracy and the public sphere, the Black freedom struggle and the press, the First Amendment, literary journalism, and the history of the book and print culture. She is the Associate Dean of Equity & Inclusion in the College of Social & Behavioral Sciences. She served as Chair of UMass Journalism from 2014-2017; she is past chair of the AEJMC History Division and past associate editor of American Journalism. 

She is the co-editor with Sid Bedingfield of the book Journalism & Jim Crow: White Supremacy and the Black Struggle for a New America (University of Illinois Press, 2021), winner of the 2022 AEJMC History Division Book Award and the 2022 American Journalism Historians Association Book Award and finalist for the 2022 AEJMC Tankard Book Award. The book documents the active role white newspaper publishers and editors played in building and sustaining violent white supremacist political economies and social orders across the South from 1875-1920. 

This book can be accessed (https://books.google.com/books/about/Journalism_and_Jim_Crow.html?id=VzxPEAAAQBAJ&source=kp_book_description)

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Journalism &amp; Jim Crow: White Supremacy and the Black Struggle for a New America (Kathy Roberts Forde

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"The Task of Witnessing: A Symposium in Honor of James Foley", Tuesday, September 20, 2016

Panel: Ben Brody, Beth Murphy, Charles Sennott
Moderator: Kathy Roberts Forde

Kathy Roberts Forde moderates a panel discussion

Journalists on the Frontiers - 2016 James Foley Symposium

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