Social Justice Journalism

Linda J. Lumsden teaches journalism history at The University of Arizona. She is the author of Black, White, and Red All Over: A Cultural History of the Radical Press in Its Heyday, 1900-1917 (2014); INEZ: The Life and Times of Inez Milholland (2004); and Rampant Women: Suffragists and the Right of Assembly (1996). A 2012-2013 Fulbright Scholar in Malaysia, she holds a Ph.D. in mass communication from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

“From the abolitionist press and woman’s suffrage press to the online Resistance media against POTUS45, Linda J. Lumsden brings to life in these pages the energizing history of America’s social justice media. Against often daunting odds for labor, for environmentalists, for civil rights movements, for disabled activists, and others, media activism has been the heart and mind of pressure for progressive change.”—John D. H. Downing, author of Radical Media: Rebellious Communication and Social Movements

• Acknowledgments – Introduction: Abolition Editors, Digital Activists, and Social Justice Journalism – Just the Facts? From the Anti-Slavery Monthly Reporter to William Lloyd Garrison’s Liberator – Strike: The New York Call and Socialist Print Culture – Trailblazer: The Sierra Club Bulletin Helps Build the Environmental Movement – Suffragist: Reframing Agitator: The Arkansas State Press Makes Black Lives Matter in 1942 – Bad Boys: El Malcriado and the Making of the United Farm Workers – Ms.: The First Feminist Mass Media Magazine – "Crips" and "Gimps": Creating a Disability Culture in the Disability Rag – FTM Newsletter: Louis Sullivan Finds Himself and Fosters a Movement – Conclusion: Social Media and Social Justice Journalism – Bibliography – Index.