Louis Austin and the Carolina times : a life in the long black freedom struggle /

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Author / Creator:	Gershenhorn, Jerry, author.
Imprint:	Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2018] ©2018
Description:	1 online resource
Language:	English
Subject:	Austin, L. E. -- (Louis Ernest), -- 1898-1971. Carolina times (Durham, N.C.) African American journalists -- North Carolina -- Durham -- Biography. African American newspapers -- North Carolina -- Durham. African American journalists. African American newspapers. Race relations. North Carolina -- Race relations. North Carolina. North Carolina -- Durham. Biographies. Biographies.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12282703

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ISBN:	9781469638775 1469638770 9781469638782 1469638789 9781469638768 1469638762
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed February 8, 2018).
Summary:	Louis Austin (1898-1971) came of age at the nadir of the Jim Crow era and became a transformative leader of the long black freedom struggle in North Carolina. From 1927 to 1971, he published and edited the Carolina Times, the preeminent black newspaper in the state. He used the power of the press to voice the anger of black Carolinians, and to turn that anger into action in a forty-year crusade for freedom. In this biography, Jerry Gershenhorn chronicles Austin's career as a journalist and activist, highlighting his work during the Great Depression, World War II, and the postwar civil rights movement.

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