Professor Harry Amana
219 Carroll Hall						    	
919.962.4080
Hours: MW 10-11, 1-2 /3:30-4	          				        harryamana@unc.edu
TTh: by appointment						    	URL: http://www.unc.edu/~haman

Catalog description: The Black Press and U.S. History JOMC 342 3 credits. A chronological survey of the African-American press in the United States since 1827. Emphasis is on key people and issues during critical eras in the African-American experience.

Required Readings:
The Early Black Press In America, 1827 to 1860, Frankie Hutton.
A History of the Black Press, Armistead S. Pride and Clint C. Wilson II.
Electronic Reserves (click on "SEARCH for Electronic Reserves" and then on "Amana" for access)
Web sites as linked in the weekly section of this syllabus.

Internet Sites: Some sites on the weekly syllabus are a part of the required reading for the course. Other sites provide materials for original research. They include, for example:

The "Women In Journalism" link of the Washington Press Club Foundation's oral history project that includes the transcripts of extensive interviews with Marvel Cooke, Frances Murphy and Ethel Payne. ,
The Charles Alston link/site on the site of the National Archives that contains more than 100 of Alston's WWII editorial cartoons that he created for publication in the black press.
The Marcus Garvey link/site contains several examples of Garvey's writings on Africa, the Caribbean and the United States.
And there are more.

Course Objective: The course will trace the development of the black press from its beginning in 1827 to the present, using major events in African American history as a backdrop. Primary emphasis will be on the development of the modern black press since World War I. We will look at black newspapers and magazines as cultural depositories and historical documents that recorded the philosophical debates, problems, solutions, concerns, growth and development of the African-American community in the United States.

Course Structure: The classes are made up of lectures and discussions based on the required and reserve readings, periodic handouts, films and Web sites. Students are responsible for having read all materials assigned on the daily syllabus. Even though all materials assigned on the daily syllabus may not be covered or discussed in class, the instructor assumes that students will have read all materials and that they understand all of the materials unless they ask questions during class.

Internet Communication: Some material will be sent to students via email on the Internet, or through the course listserv. All students officially registered for the class are included on the listserv with their UNC-CH email address. Students who wish to use another email address must notify the instructor immediately.

Undergraduate Research Report (40 percent)

Graduate Research Paper (40 percent)

Take-Home Midterm Examination (25 percent)

Take-Home Final Examination (35 percent)

Final Grades

	A = 95 or above      B+= 89-91        C+= 79-81      D+= 69-71
	A-= 92-94            B = 85-88        C = 75-78      D = 65-68
                             B-= 82-84        C-= 72-74      D-= 62-64

Writing Standards -- Student writing will be judged by the usual School of Journalism and Mass Communication standards. Factual errors result in automatic failures; significant points will be loss for spelling, typographical, grammatical and punctuation errors. Of course, points will be added for exceptional research and writing. Papers with significant spelling, grammar or punctuation errors will not receive a grade above C-, regardless of the quality of the analysis or ideas presented in the paper.

Students should consult The Writing Center site, MLA Format at: http://www.unc.edu/depts/wcweb/handouts/mla.html before writing their research papers. The Center's staff is also available for consultation, but you must register early.

Honor Code: Students are reminded that a failure to do all of their own research and writing would be a violation of the University Honor Code and could result in disciplinary action by the School of Journalism and Mass Communication. For comprehensive information on the university's Honor System, go to www.unc.edu/depts/honor.

Plagiarism
To learn how to avoid plagiarism, students should go to the university's Honor System Plagiarism site at: http://honor.unc.edu/students/plagiarism.html, or to The Writing Center's Plagiarism site at: http://www.unc.edu/depts/wcweb/handouts/plagiarism.html.

1. Press the Yellow search button to go to the Basic search screen and ...
Before you press the "Go" button:
2. Enter "Charles Alston" in the Keywords box.
3. Select the limit results radio button for "1000."
4. Select the box marked "Descriptions of Archival Materials linked to digital copies."
5. Now press the "Go" button.
6. This will give you six images per page with 18 total pages for 106 total images.