Desegregation undermined the institutions that sustained black collective self-knowledge.

Evidence

These papers enabled an imagined community—a sense of connection with other black people across the country who faced similar trials and tribulations. But the black freedom struggle of the 1960s sealed the fate of these news outlets. Their influence waned as doors once closed opened and black reporters migrated to mainstream print media and black readers followed them. — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Democracy in Black, 370

Categorization

• XREF: The decline of black newspapers as imagined community parallels how loss of segregated black institutions (HBCUs) is treated in the same chapter; also echoes Benedict Anderson’s imagined community concept used here literally. — connects to: Desegregation displaced the integration burden onto Black students while apartheid persisted inside white schools — bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress: Education as…, 62; Racial integration replaced transformative black education with mere information transfer. — bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress: Education as…, 14