Black, white, and red all over : a cultural history of the radical press in its heyday, 1900-1917

Hundreds of newspapers and magazines published by socialists, anarchists, and the Industrial Workers of the World in the years before World War I offered sharp critiques of the emerging corporate state that remain relevant in light of gaping twenty-first-century social inequity. __Black, White, and Red All Over__ offers the first comprehensive narrative to explore the central role that a broad swathe of social movement media played in radical movements, stirring millions of Americans a century ago. Author Linda J. Lumsden mines more than a dozen diverse radical periodicals including __Progressive Woman, Industrial Worker, Wilshire's, the Messenger, Mother Earth, Appeal to Reason, New York Call, and International Socialist Review__ to demonstrate how they served anarchists, socialists, and industrial unionists in their quest to topple capitalism and create their varied visions of a cooperative commonwealth. The book argues that these subversive periodicals were quintessentially American: individualist, independent, socialminded, egalitarian, defiant, and celebratory of freedom. Even their call for revolution resounded from the roots of the American experience. __Black, White, and Red All Over__ explores socialist periodicals in the agrarian heartland; views socialists attempts to provide alternatives to urban dailies; explores the radical press crusade to champion workers; analyzes the role anarchist periodicals played in their pioneering battles for a free press, free speech, and free love; surveys socialism in the black press; and details the federal government s wartime campaign to suppress the radical press. It draws parallels with Occupy Wall Street's social media movement. Despite the distance from the typewriter to Twitter, Lumsden concludes that twenty-first-century social movement media perform nearly the same function as did their nearly forgotten predecessors. Introduction: the rise of a nineteenth-century radical press Socialists: national periodicals in the heartland Dailies: socialists take on the mainstream press Bombs and bombast: trials of socialist newspapers Cacophony: from a "one-hoss boss" to a party boss in the socialist press Wobblies: journalism as direct action by the industrial workers of the world Anarchy! imagining a world without hierarchy The intellectuals: Wilshire's, the masses, and the lyrical left "The black man's burden": race and the radical press "What every woman should know": women and the radical press Suppression: silencing the radical press during World War I.