JOURN 3000: Exam 3 - People
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Benjamin Lundy
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"Genius of Universal Emancipation" - 1821
Anti-Slavery newspaper
White Abolistionist
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William Garrison
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"Liberator" - "I will be heard" - 1831
Immediate emancipation
Opened columns to African Americans/women
Small readership of Af. Ams. and white sympathizers
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Elijah Lovejoy
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The link between abolition and civil rights
Tested the right of free press in border states
Published the Observer in Illinois
Used his newspaper to attempt to establish an anti-slavery society in the state
Killed by a mob who then burned his press--**his death was the first event to …
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Samuel Cornish
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Journalist and co-editor of the first African American newspaper, the Freedom Journal - in 1822.
He was also a Presbyterian minister and fierce opponent of the ACS and called for black action against slavery.
He considered himself American, not African.
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John Russworm
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American aboltionist from Jamaica who lived in 1800
Freedom Journal
Free black man raised in Portland
Started newspaper dedicated to abolition
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Frederick Douglass
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A former slave who became one of the most influential black abolitionist in the country due to his exceptional personality and and speaking ability.
Editor of "The North Star" - 1845
Made in response to "The Liberator"
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Robert Abbott
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African-American lawyer and paper publisher
Chicago Defender (America's Black paper) 1905
Used bold headlines, sarcasm, irony
First Afr-Am to become a millionaire as publisher
Created list of 9 goals for "Defender's Bible"
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Charlotta Bass
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1st African american woman to own and operate a newspaper in the US.
Published the California Eagle - 1912
1st African american woman nominated for Vice President.
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Robert L. Vann
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Pittsburgh Courier - national paper, multiple city editions, surpassed Chicago Defender as leading black paper - 1912
persuaded African Americans to leave Repubs and go for FDR
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Margaret Fuller
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Penny press "literary lady" - wrote from home
Women's rights advocate, assoc. w/ transcendentalist movement
One of NY Tribune's 1st female foreign correspondents
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Nellie Bly
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pen name of Elizabeth Jane Cochrane
American journalist
faked insanity to study a mental institution
“Ten Days in a Mad-House” - 1887
Also did “Around the World in 72 Days”
a stunt girl
wrote for Pulitzer’s New York World
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Eleanor Roosevelt
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Held White House press conferences for women only to keep women in newspaper jobs
News papers were cutting down on employees and w/ her 'women only' press conferences Roosevelt kept women in the work force
By 1940 100 women were accredited
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Lucile Bluford
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Black woman who wasn't allowed to go to Mizzou for journalism master's
Editor/publisher of Kansas City Call (Af-Am weekly paper)
Helped change the way Af-Ams were treated (esp. in higher ed)
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Betty Friedan
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Published "The Feminine Mystique" - 1963
the problem that has no name
housewife feels unfulfilled in their lives
catalyst for second wave feminism
idea of "MS."
writes "the second stage" to describe new movement direction
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Frederick Palmer
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spent many years as war correspondent, covering Greco-Turkish War, Philippine-American War, and more
New York Press London correspondent 1895
First war correspondent to win Distinguished Service Medal
Our Greatest Battle based on WWI experience
Chief Press Officer - too little info/to…
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Richard Harding Davis
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"The Death of Rodriguez," (1896)
Covered death of a Cuban rebel, romanticized it, compared fight for freedom to that of U.S. from Brits, explicitly sympathetic to Cuba
Covered Spanish-American War
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Floyd Gibbons
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war correspondent for Chicago Tribune for WWI where he lost an eye
The boat he was on got hit by a torpedo
Began first daily radio network newscast on NBC Red - 1929
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Edward Murrow
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"Hear it Now", "See it now"
First did radio bombings of London
Partner with Fred Friendly
Took down Joseph McCarthy
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Ernie Pyle
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Scripps Howard columnist
wrote a syndicated column about traveling through the US "looking for life" from 1934-1940
went to England in 1940 and wrote about the Blitz
followed along foot soldiers writing intimate portraits of fighting men determined to redeem the individuality of GIs
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Walter Kronkite
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American broadcast journalist, best known anchorman for the CBS Evening News who reported many events from 1937 to 1981
-"Most trusted man in America"
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JOURN 3000: Exam 3 - People