The Grapevine of the Black South: The Scott Newspaper Syndicate in the Generation before the Civil Rights Movement - Print Culture in the South

It [told] the individual how he should think and feel as an American Negro and create[d] a tremendous power of suggestion by implying that all other Negroes think and feel in this manner.” It didn’t create a complete homogeneity in black southern thinking, but it gave thinkers a similar set of tools from which to draw.