Media Coverage Of The Harlem Riot Of 1943

Introduction

The media are an integral part of the war. Under the Old Regime, there were the newspapers that were holding the people informed of events of the war. By this time, the receptivity of the audience was more important in times of war. The media have changed dramatically throughout the SIEC and the latter mainly in the twentieth century (Wright p.65). Technical means have significantly changed the relationship of media to the war.

Today the media include different media: “the press paper (newspaper, news magazine, television, radio and internet. This allows information to spread around and, no one can escape the media and this gives a very big responsibility. Indeed, it is often said that the media make and unmake public opinion. This is in most cases true, but if the war is different. The report information in times of war is extremely difficult and depends largely on the will of the belligerents” (Lewis p.25).

Today we speak of media management of conflict, as well as for journalists for the military. The importance of media influence on public opinion has become a decisive factor on the conduct of the war. Indeed, public opinion plays a role in decision making warlike democracies even if it is not determinative. And the public thrives on information provided by the media.

Fiorello la Guardia and Harlem Riot

Under the mandate of Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia (1934-1945), “municipal authorities destroyed several tenements and slums to make way for large groups of buildings: and the Harlem River Houses were offering low-cost housing (Hopkins p. 67)”. One third of the total area of East Harlem was razed and rebuilt under the direction of the city planner Robert Moses . The urban renewal continued in the 1950s , it also concerned other areas of upstate New York as Manhattantown , Morningside Heights and the Upper West Side and gave rise to numerous evictions of blacks and Puerto Ricans. The latter eventually concentrate in East Harlem and north of 125th Street .

With this Great Depression emerging as the true black activism began in the district, with the slogan "Do not buy where you can not work" (Harris p.65). This was the last campaign to force retailers to 125th Street to hire black that reaches its target. In June 1934 , the boycotts were organized by the Citizens' League for Fair Play against the department store Blumstein's located on 125th Street. The store agreed to the employment of African Americans. Building on this success Harlémites protests continued, conducted by other religious leaders and as future member of Congress Adam Clayton Powell Jr.

The latter sought to change hiring practices in other stores and widespread use of black, and members of protest groups . After the riots of 1935 and 1943 , the movement became increasingly political in opposing racial segregation. In 1940 , he organized a petition in favor of an anti-lynching who collected 250,000 signatures.

Discussion

Although the racial ideology of black criminality influenced the perceptions of whites toward ...