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1. Radio journalist - CBS partner with Fred Friendly and made 'Hear it Now' and 'see it now' covered racial integration and the Korean war - combated anti-communism - did a report on Joseph McCarthy






2. Killed Emmett Till






3. Wrote The Alarm - was in an interracial marriage - led the International Working People's Association. He was convicted for the bomb attack on city police known as the Haymarket Affair or Haymarket Riots - Anarchist






4. Tammany Hall - Nast - got the Irish vote - rigged election - center of conspiracy - Governor of New York - Democrat

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5. Abolitionist who wrote for The Liberator - was a voice for the women's suffrage movement - discovered Frederick Douglass - wrote for the North Star






6. Killed Emmett Till with L.W. Milam - confessed in an interview with 'Look' Magazine






7. Miscegenation pamphlet - hoax






8. Killed Emmett Till with L.W. Milam - confessed in an interview with 'Look' Magazine






9. Wrote satire against imperialism and the colonization of the Philippines






10. Susan B. Anthony's partner - started The Revolution/NWSA






11. Author of comon sense - American Revolution






12. Discriminated against Jews in Dearborn Independent - 'The International Jew: The World's Foremost Problem'






13. American Women's Suffrage Association - Conservative - women's rights - Women's journal






14. Spanish American War - Yellow Journalism - Harper's Weekly






15. Wrote The Alarm - was in an interracial marriage - led the International Working People's Association. He was convicted for the bomb attack on city police known as the Haymarket Affair or Haymarket Riots - Anarchist






16. Exposed My Lai and its cover up - won Pullitzer Prize






17. Deep throat - provided Bernstein and Woodward with information - FBI agent






18. Abolitionist who wrote for The Liberator - was a voice for the women's suffrage movement - discovered Frederick Douglass - wrote for the North Star






19. Deep throat - provided Bernstein and Woodward with information - FBI agent






20. Suffragist - founder of the newspaper-The Revolution - partner was Elizabeth Cady Stanton - Seneca Falls convention - Part of the National Woman Suffrage Association






21. Published 'Pentagon Papers' to the New York Times - RAND corporation






22. Wrote McClure's Standard oil and the tactics they used






23. CBS reporter - Zippo Segment






24. CBS radio - Catholic priest who spoke against the KKK - admired Hitler-hated the Jews - wider range of audience






25. Journal of Occurences (first wire newspaper) - American Revolution - Spanish American War






26. 9/11 reporter - jumped on the bandwagon






27. Vice president of The Washington Post during Watergate






28. Covered Watergate - worked for The Washington Post - edgy - dropout - didn't go to college - chased down sources in New Mexico






29. Founder of PR - Sigmund Freud's nephew - used psychology in his work - Torches of Freedom






30. Radio journalist - CBS partner with Fred Friendly and made 'Hear it Now' and 'see it now' covered racial integration and the Korean war - combated anti-communism - did a report on Joseph McCarthy






31. Former slave - captivating and articulate speaker - editor of his own paper - had a book 'The Narrative life of Frederick Douglass -' was discovered by William Lloyd Garrison in 1841 - who then asked Douglass to speak at an anti-slavery convention. A






32. Author of comon sense - American Revolution






33. Created the concept of objectivity -third person - no sides - less personal - New York Times






34. Journal of Occurences (first wire newspaper) - American Revolution - Spanish American War






35. Alabama Governor during the Selma March - led to Voting Act of 1965






36. Started the New York Journal - Journalism of Action - yellow journalism






37. Wrote satire against imperialism and the colonization of the Philippines






38. Watergate - partner to Bernstein - went to college - professional






39. Spanish American War - Yellow Journalism - Harper's Weekly






40. Anti-communism - republican - 'list' of communists in the House and Senate






41. Miscegenation pamphlet - hoax






42. Created the concept of objectivity -third person - no sides - less personal - New York Times






43. Discriminated against Jews in Dearborn Independent - 'The International Jew: The World's Foremost Problem'






44. CBS radio - Catholic priest who spoke against the KKK - admired Hitler-hated the Jews - wider range of audience






45. Racist - hated the Irish - yellow journalism - cartoons - wrote for Harper's Weekly - founder of 'Watchdog journalism' because of his work against Tammany Hall - is considered the father of the American Cartoon






46. 9/11 reporter - jumped on the bandwagon






47. African American Chicago boy - brutally murdered in the south - his mother put his body on display after He was killed - open casket






48. Exposed My Lai and its cover up - won Pullitzer Prize






49. Racist - hated the Irish - yellow journalism - cartoons - wrote for Harper's Weekly - founder of 'Watchdog journalism' because of his work against Tammany Hall - is considered the father of the American Cartoon






50. New York World - Investigative Journalism - Tammany Hall - Yellow Journalism