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The Power Of The Press In The South’S Battle Against The Freedmen’S Bureau, Rachel E. Gay Ms.

Honors College Theses

Since the invention of the printing press in the 15^th century, people have been using the power of the press to enforce their political opinion. When the Freedmen’s Bureau entered the South following the end of the Civil War, it was met with much opposition by the white Georgians. The newspapers in Georgia began their attacks on the Bureau using methods that would appeal to the audience and create a sense of tension between the locals and the Bureau agents.

Georgia Southern College News Scrapbooks, Zach S. Henderson Library Special Collections

Finding Aids

Each box contains a large scrapbook of local and regional newspaper clippings about the college, from First District A & M School in 1923 to Georgia Southern College. There are lone volumes for 1923 and for 1931-1935, then the volumes are relatively constant from 1957-1985. Many of these volumes were prepared by Richard Mandes as head of Georgia Southern College Publicity.

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