Nabil - Commercial Appeal

1. How well of a job did The Commercial Appeal, a southern newspaper, cover civil rights in the changing south?

2. What side did they choose to cover, that of the whites or of the blacks?

3. What were some of the big events in Memphis that The Commercial Appeal covered?

During the Early days of Civil Rights, Many news mediums in the South, where torn between how to cover certain civil rights issues. We see an early constant trend of lack of coverage of African American news stories but stories about whites where properly addressed. A lack of being informed leaves people out of the loop and in a state of turmoil with being unaware of the “real” world. In a sense African Americans in areas where African American issues/events where not documented in the news where living in a world cut off from American society. Through my research and writings I hope to find how well the Commercial Appeal has documented as well as covered the early civil rights events that happened in and around Memphis as well as the rest of the United States.