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

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A Question of Sedition tells the story of an event that virtually happened, didn’t, and why it never occurred. That event was once the attempt by the Rossevelt Administration to use its special wartime sedition powers to suppress publication of the major black newspapers all over World War II. Historians have long believed that the massive press suppressions of 1917-1921 did not recur all over World War II simply on account of a relative absence of dissent. Many have also believed that Franklin Roosevelt, who typically enjoyed good relations with the press, wouldn’t have been a supporter of censorship. This book shows that in reality an intense battle raged within the highest levels of Roosevelt’s government over censorship of the black press. On the side of suppressing, or no less than silencing, the black press was once the powerful team of Franklin Roosevelt and J. Edgar Hoover; working virtually by myself on the other side was once Attorney General Francis Biddle. Drawing on interviews and thousands of pages of government documents, many obtained through the Freedom of Information Act and declassified for the first time, Washburn tells the full story of the conflict, setting the record straight on this important period in the country’s libertarian history.

About the Writer:

Patrick S. Washburn is Associate Professor of Journalism at the E.W. Scripps School of Journalism of Ohio Univeristy. He was once formerly a newspaper reporter and columnist for more than ten years.

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