The Race Beat
Subtitle: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation
Edition: First edition edition
Publisher: Knopf
Published: October 31, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 518
ISBN-13: 9780679403814
Subjects: History: American; Press coverage; History - General History; Journalism (Specific Aspects); U.S. - Political And Civil Rights Of Blacks; United States; Language Arts & Disciplines; History - U.S; Political Freedom & Security - Civil Rights; Language; Media Studies; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - Histor; United States - 20th Century; United States - 20th Century (1945 to 2000); History / United States / 20th Century; African Americans; Race relations; Journalism; 20th century; Civil rights; History
Description: This is the story of how America awakened to its race problem, of how a nation that longed for unity after World War II came instead to see, hear, and learn about the shocking indignities and injustices of racial segregation in the South--and the brutality used to enforce it. It is the story of how the nation's press, after decades of ignoring the problem, came to recognize the importance of the civil rights struggle and turn it into the most significant domestic news event of the twentieth century. Drawing on private correspondence, notes from secret meetings, unpublished articles, and interviews, veteran journalists Gene Roberts and Hank Klibanoff go behind the headlines and datelines to show how a dedicated cadre of newsmen--first black reporters, then liberal southern editors, then reporters and photographers from the national press and the broadcast media--revealed to a nation its most shameful shortcomings and propelled its citizens to act.--From publisher description.