Americans depend mainly upon press, radio, and motion pictures for their information and attitudes. The morale of this nation is influenced mainly by what is read in newspapers, magazines and other publications, what is heard over the radio sets, and what is shown on the silver screens of thousands of theatres. The effects of these media upon Negroes have been manifold. In nonracial matters appearing in these agencies the Negro responds as do other Americans. But because the Negro has been set apart and accorded a special and inferior status, he will have special reactions to racial material appearing in white publications, over the radio, or in motion pictures. What these reactions are may be found in that barometer of his thinking: the Negro press. Not only will his own newspapers and magazines reflect his thinking, but they will also have still another effect on his morale by printing stories and articles concerning Negroes and race relations that have been ignored or given scant attention in the general media. In other words, the morale of the Negro depends not only on what he sees in the white press, radio, and motion pictures, but also upon what appears in his own publications. The heightened racial consciousness and increased facility of expression which characterize the Negro during the present global conflict as contrasted with World War I have given rise to the assumption in some quarters that the morale of Negroes is low as compared with the 1917-18 era. This is probably a false assumption. Discrimination, restrictions, and segregation existed then just as they do today. Our newspapers of that period complained bitterly of injustices then just as they do today. Their voices simply were not so loud. The Negro felt the same resentments then that he feels today, but his publications were nowhere near as competent then as instruments of protest and the group as a whole was not so socially conscious as it is now. It should also be pointed out that certain concessions have been made to the Negro during this war that were not obtained in the previous conflict, and to the Negro press is due more than a smattering of credit for this improvement. On the other hand, the Negro remembers that in 1917-18 he was promised certain rights when peace came and these promises were never lived up to. This has made him cynical and he is of a disposition to fight for his normal rights as an American while he goes along instead of waiting until later. If the change which can be observed in newspapers, magazines, the radio, and motion pictures is any criterion of the advance made by the Negro toward fuller citizenship in the United States, both in his own estimation and that of other Americans, then it must be conceded that although conditions are far from ideal and still leave the Negro the most flagrant victim of par-