World War II had same dilemma as World War I for black press: support the war or not? Ultimately used FDR’s Double V campaign to represent victory at home and abroad.

Truman’s 1947 civil rights commission issued report calling for end of segregation and discrimination vis a vis education, voting, lynching, employment, etc.; (Eventually winnowed.) Carter, anti-bigotry editor in Mississippi still opposed the report because he thought the evils of lynching et al would become too self-evident and die out.

Southern politicians felt betrayed by Truman, whom they had pushed to replace more liberal Henry Wallace, so they sought alternative.

GOP’s Dewey’s running mate Earl Warren wouldn’t have been the activist Chief Justice had Dixiecrats successfully dumped Truman.

Ashmore spearheaded Southern Education Reporting Service to provide unbiased education reporting in the South; broke old race-based journalism customs.

Ashmore’s “Negroes and the Schools” book released wide the day before the Brown vs. Board decision, which helped keep things cooled.

In Mississippi, Citizens’ Council popped up to oppose integration and Virginia’s “Defenders”.

Brown’s decision re: implementation came a year after the ruling.

White and black reporters joined forces in Till trial to hunt down witnesses; shared resources.

William Huie, Alabama journalist, paid Milam and Bryants to tell their stories re: Till murder secretly for Look magazine.

Grand jury in Montgomery in 1956 indicted King and 115 others for “illegally conspiring to hinder a lawful business” by boycotting bus service.

John Chancellor was at Till trial for NBC when group threatened him; he scared them off with his microphone and threat of publication.

TV reflected the Negro reality in the South without a filter and put them back in the front row the way newspapers did not (because black reporters had been sidelined).

Reporters formed Souther War Correspondents Club with “segregated”/“integrated” cards; Southern correspondents formed Reporting Racial Equality Wars with slogan: “involuntary veteran of unexpected combat”.

March on Washington was TV’s first big seminal event and allowed movement finally to reach the “huge camp of the uncommitted” it needed to advance results.

Birmingham bombing of four black girls galvanized, along with the March, the greater public. That, plus the JFK assassination followed by Freedom Summer, were the tipping point.

Footage from Selma march interrupted broadcast of Judgement at Nuremberg, whose parallels brought new outrage and supporters to Selma.