| This thesis investigated how the Mobile Register and Press depicted the civil rights movement as a news topic from 1954 to 1959. The thesis content analyzed 151 news articles and editorials in The Mobile Register and The Mobile Press from the Brown v. Board of Education decision to articles found in the John LeFlore papers. The study first assessed the tone of the articles and editorials. The majority of them were thematic in tone. Next, this study investigated the prevalence of news frame identified in earlier studies on framing: conflict, human interest, responsibility, economic consequences, and morality. The results showed that, overall, the conflict frame was the most commonly used in the news, followed by the responsibility, human interest, law and order, silence, economic consequences, and morality. Last, this thesis determined that the majority of the articles and editorials referred to black Americans as Negroes. |
