The birth of the death of a nation: 1917-1921 the media’s role in three race riots

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Title

The birth of the death of a nation: 1917-1921 the media’s role in three race riots

Identifier

TF2013Sledge

Subjects

["Race relations"]

Type

["Text"]

Genre

["Theses"]

Format

["pdf"]

Rights

Access to this document has been permanently and indefinitely restricted by the author until or unless the author submits a written request to Special Collections & Archives to change the access restrictions and/or make it freely available. Only Albert S. Cook Library staff members may access this file for administrative purposes unless written permission from the author is presented to staff members of the Towson University Special Collections & Archives department. Copyright protected, all rights reserved.

General Notes

Thesis research directed by Social Sciences Program.

Extent

vi, 72 pages

Language

["English"]

Repository

["Towson University. Albert S. Cook Library. Special Collections and University Archives"]

Collection Name

["Towson University Graduate Theses and Dissertations"]

Author

Sledge, Edward Lee, Jr.

Degree Date

2014

Department or Program

["Towson University. Social Sciences Program"]

Abstract

The Birth of the Death of a Nation: 1917-1921, discusses the 1917 East St. Louis, Missouri, the 1919 Chicago, Illinois, and the 1921 Tulsa, Oklahoma race riots. It explains how the white controlled media helped and shaped explosive environments where whites and African Americans lived amongst each other within hated communities. As the media continued to print untrue, unsupportive, and incomplete stories and degrading images of African Americans which cost citizens to hate each other even more. In each of the three race riots, the social, political, and economic issues which plagued those environments dominated newspapers headlines and reports of African Americans committing social, political, economic, and physical crimes against whites.

This Master Thesis Paper discusses the reasons why whites became obsesses with believing that they were victims and in the process, supported creating an ideology of white victimization. This Master Thesis Paper discusses both whites and African Americans’ interactions and their conflicts and struggles with each other. It also discusses and explains the ways how African Americans were the real victims and the white media's role of constantly conveying negative reports and stories to whites, in turn they convinced themselves that they were the victims. Because of the racial and social hierarchies set in America, when any African American did not obey the created rules of society, whites felt that white supremacy was being threatened which created the belief of whites victimization.

Thesis Committee Members

["Tsitsos, William","Diemer, Andrew","Schmitz, Charles"]

Date Published

20 February 2014

Author (Controlled)

["Sledge, Edward Lee, Jr."]

Thesis Advisor

["Reinhardt, Akim D."]

Degree Note

(M.S.) -- Towson University, 2014.

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