![]() | The Grapevine of the Black South In the summer of 1928, William Alexander Scott began a small four-page weekly with the help of his brother Cornelius. In 1930 his Atlanta World became a semiweekly, and the following year W. A. began to implement his vision for a massive newspaper chain based out of Atlanta: the Southern Newspaper Syndicate, later dubbed the Scott Newspaper Syndicate . In April 1931 the World had become a triweekly, and its reach began drifting beyond the South. THOMAS AIELLO is a professor of history and Africana studies at Valdosta State University and the author of several books, including Hoops: A Cultural History of Basketball in America ; The Life and Times of Louis Lomax: The Art of Deliberate Disunity ; and The Grapevine of the Black South: The Scott Newspaper Syndicate in the Generation before the Civil Rights Movement (Georgia). |
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