The Burning of the Banner [microform] : The Press and the Government in Conflict / Phyllis Miller
- Bib ID:
- 5508398
- Format:
- Book and Microform
- Author:
- Miller, Phyllis
- Description:
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- [Washington, D.C.] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1989
- 21 p.
- Summary:
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Brenham, Texas, in 1866, was a newspaperman's town. In addition to "The Weekly Southern Banner," Brenham citizens read the "Lone Star," the "Christian Advocate," and the "Brenham Enquirer." The events of 1866 bring into sharp focus the struggle between the Fourth Estate and the federal government. This struggle, fueled by verbal battles and physical violence, centered on the sacred right to freedom of the press. The combatants, journalist Daniel Leonidas McGary and a newly-formed governmental agency, the Freedmen's Bureau, engaged in a classic, period confrontation between the federal government and the local press in a South Central Texas town struggling to survive the manifold problems of Reconstruction. (Fifty-two notes are included.) (Author/RS)
- Notes:
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- ERIC Note: Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (72nd, Washington, DC, August 10-13, 1989).
- May also be available online. Address as at 14/8/18: https://eric.ed.gov/
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- Microfiche. [Washington D.C.]: ERIC Clearinghouse microfiches : positive.
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- Publication date:
- 1989
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