TY - BOOK AU - Mellinger,Gwyneth ED - Project Muse. TI - Chasing newsroom diversity: from Jim Crow to affirmative action T2 - The history of communication SN - 9780252094644 AV - PN4797 .M48 2013 U1 - 071/.3089 23 PY - 2013/// CY - Urbana PB - University of Illinois Press KW - Minorities KW - Employment KW - United States KW - Diversity in the workplace KW - American newspapers KW - History KW - 20th century KW - Minorities in journalism KW - African Americans in the newspaper industry KW - Minority journalists KW - Electronic books. KW - local N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction: the black and white of newspapers -- Manning the barricade: maintaining the white prerogative in the face of change, 1954-1967 -- Seeking justice in a climate of irony: the hiring initiative's uneasy prelude, 1968-1976 -- "A sensitive and difficult task": establishing a framework for newsroom integration, 1977-1989 -- The gay Nineties: reimagining and renegotiating a multicultural newsroom -- Diversity in crisis: ASNE's time of reckoning, 1998-2002 -- Afterword: closing a chapter of newspaper history UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780252094644/ ER -