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Media History And Culture People

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






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






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






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






5. 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






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






7. Killed Emmett Till






8. Miscegenation pamphlet - hoax






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






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






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






12. CBS reporter - Zippo Segment






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






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






15. Author of comon sense - American Revolution






16. African American journalist who wrote about lynching - scared for her life






17. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






31. CBS reporter - Zippo Segment






32. 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






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






34. 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






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


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






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






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






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






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






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






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






43. Studied in a mental instituion - wrote for The New York World under Pullitzer






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






45. Killed Emmett Till






46. Miscegenation pamphlet - hoax






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






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






49. 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






50. African American journalist who wrote about lynching - scared for her life