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23 Oct, 9 tweets, 5 min read
A new series, "Printing Hate," captures the role newspapers had in instigating racial lynchings and massacres from 1865 through the 1960s.

The project is from 60 journalism students at several universities, partnering with @HowardCenterUMD.

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Professor @krforde — an American journalism historian quoted in "Printing Hate" — told Insider that much of local newspapers' coverage during that time period was to uphold the white supremacist political economy.

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The first two pieces in the series show how newspapers in some cases spread lies agitating racial tensions that led to violence, including the Danville Massacre.

In 1883, the Richmond Dispatch wrote that "these negroes … have been taught a lesson."

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The "lesson" the newspaper was referencing was the lynching of Black men for daring to leave their homes to vote.

In three days of violence, seven Black men were killed and two white men were injured.

insider.com/newspapers-hel… A text-only graphic that reads: "Throughout the 1883 el
This was brought about because of a newspaper report raising fear of Black political power.

Newly emancipated Black people were starting businesses and being elected to public office, which white newspapers interpreted as a loss for white residents.

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This was common during that time period because white newspapers always had a political agenda and mystified much of their editorial and reporting, Professor Jane Dailey told Insider.

Black newspapers provided the balance.

insider.com/newspapers-hel… Text-only graphic features quotes from Professor Jane Dailey
Newspapers often collaborated with white political and business leaders to thwart Black economic opportunities, Forde said, citing the 1919 Elaine Massacre in Arkansas.

Black sharecroppers were meeting about unionizing when armed white men showed up.

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Many local newspapers that day ran racially provoking headlines, pushing hundreds of white people from outside the county to scurry in and hunt and murder Black citizens, according to a dissertation on the incident.

At least 200 Black people were killed.

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Newspapers' role in upholding white supremacy still reverberates throughout media today.

Many newsrooms across the US are still majority-white and news coverage needs to be more diversified, according to Forde.

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