A Question of Sedition: The Federal Government's Investigation of the Black Press During World War II

From Library Journal Washburn shows that FBI director J. Edgar Hoover and President Franklin D. Roosevelt himself wanted to use sedition charges to suppress black newspapers during Word War II, claiming they undermined the war effort with reports of racial dissension and demands for civil rights. Deftly sketching federal monitoring and muzzling of the black press from 1917 to 1943, he focuses on the period from December 1941 to June 1942. He reveals much about the character of the black press and of the government's position on race and rights during World War II, while arguing that U.S. Attorney General Francis Biddle saved American civil liberties and the black press by opposing sedition prosecutions. Recommended for collections on politics and the press. Thomas J. Davis, History Dept., Howard Univ., Washington, D.C.Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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