{"product_id":"deep-south-dispatch-john-n-herbers-9781496828194","title":"Deep South Dispatch: Memoir of a Civil Rights Journalist","description":"Former \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e correspondent John N. Herbers (1923-2017), who covered the civil rights movement for more than a decade, has produced \u003ci\u003eDeep South Dispatch: Memoir of a Civil Rights Journalist\u003c\/i\u003e, a compelling story of national and historical significance. Born in the South during a time of entrenched racial segregation, Herbers witnessed a succession of landmark civil rights uprisings that rocked the country, the world, and his own conscience. Herbers's retrospective is a timely and critical illumination on America's current racial dilemmas and ongoing quest for justice. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHerbers's reporting began in 1951, when he covered the brutal execution of Willie McGee, a black man convicted for the rape of a white housewife, and the 1955 trial for the murder of Emmett Till, a black teenager killed for allegedly whistling at a white woman. With immediacy and first-hand detail, Herbers describes the assassination of John F. Kennedy; the death of four black girls in the Birmingham, Alabama, church bombing; extensive travels and interviews with Martin Luther King Jr.; Ku Klux Klan cross-burning rallies and private meetings; the Freedom Summer murders in Philadelphia, Mississippi; and marches and riots in St. Augustine, Florida, and Selma, Alabama, that led to passage of national civil rights legislation. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis account is also a personal journey as Herbers witnessed the movement with the conflicted eyes of a man dedicated to his southern heritage but who also rejected the prescribed laws and mores of a prejudiced society. His story provides a complex understanding of how the southern status quo, in which the white establishment benefited at the expense of African Americans, was transformed by a national outcry for justice.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e John N. Herbers\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1496828194\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781496828194\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University Press of Mississippi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/18\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 292\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.95lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.66d","brand":"John N. Herbers","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44048998826239,"sku":"9781496828194","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_4d692b02-0286-49f1-9688-b5b00bde9235.jpg?v=1684999028","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/deep-south-dispatch-john-n-herbers-9781496828194","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}