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Farrar, Hayward. The Baltimore Afro-American, 1892-1950. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1998. 237 pp. $59.95.
Hayward Farrar's expansion of his doctoral dissertation (under the guidance of John Hope Franklin at the University of Chicago) is a valuable contribution to understanding the role of the black press in laying the groundwork for the civil rights gains of the 1950s and 1960s.
This analysis of the first six decades of the Baltimore AfroAmerican newspaper is particularly important because it focuses on how and why the publication determined the causes it championed on behalf of its demographically significant community of African American readers in Baltimore. Many of the other major works on the black press have tended to concentrate either...