num_pages: 352
description: Shocking the Conscience is an unforgettable chronicle by the first full-time African American reporter for the Washington Post and Jet magazine's White House correspondent for a half-century.Within a few years of its first issue in 1951, Jet, a pocket-sized magazine, became the "bible" for news of the civil rights movement. It was said, only half-jokingly, "if it wasn't in Jet, it didn't happen." Writing for the magazine and its glossy big sister, Ebony, for fifty-three years, longer than any other journalist, Washington bureau chief Simeon Booker was on the front lines of virtually every major event of the revolution that transformed America.This is the story of the century that changed everything about journalism, politics, and more in America, as only Simeon Booker, the dean of the black press, could tell it.
language: English
title: Shocking the Conscience: A Reporter's Account of the Civil Rights Movement
publisher: University Press of Mississippi