The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation by Roberts, Gene

The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation (Pulitzer Prize Winner) (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780679735656)

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The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation by Roberts, Gene

The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

$18.00
The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation by Roberts, Gene

The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

$18.00
Format: Paperback
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An unprecedented examination of how news stories, editorials and photographs in the American press--and the journalists responsible for them--profoundly changed the nation's thinking about civil rights in the South during the 1950s and '60s.

Roberts and Klibanoff draw on private correspondence, notes from secret meetings, unpublished articles, and interviews to show how a dedicated cadre of newsmen--black and white--revealed to a nation its most shameful shortcomings that compelled its citizens to act. Meticulously researched and vividly rendered, The Race Beat is an extraordinary account of one of the most calamitous periods in our nation's history, as told by those who covered it.

Author: Gene Roberts, Hank Klibanoff
ISBN-10: 0679735658
ISBN-13: 9780679735656
Publisher: Vintage
Language: English
Published: 09/04/2007
Pages: 544
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.20w x 1.10d
Award: Pulitzer Prize - Winner

Review Citation(s):
New York Times Book Review 09/30/2007 pg. 28
Multicultural Review 03/01/2008 pg. 62
By Gene Roberts
By Gene Roberts
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Gene Roberts is a retired journalism professor at the University of Maryland, College Park. He was a reporter and editor with the Detroit Free Press, The Raleigh, N.C., News & Observer, Norfolk Virginian-Pilot and The Goldsboro News-Argus before joining The New York Times in 1965, where until 1972 he served as chief Southern and civil rights correspondent, chief war correspondent in South Vietnam, and national editor. During his 18 years as executive editor of The Philadelphia Inquirer, his staff won 17 Pulitzer Prizes. He later became managing editor of the Times.A native of Alabama, Hank Klibanoff is the Managing editor/news at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. He is the former Deputy Managing Editor for ThePhiladelphia Inquirer, where he worked for 20 years. He was also a reporter for three years at the Boston Globe and six years in Mississippi for The Daily Herald, South Mississippi Sun (now the Sun-Herald) and the Greenville Delta Democrat Times.

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