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

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Roberts and Klibanoff draw on private correspondence, notes from secret meetings, unpublished articles, and interviews to show how a dedicated cadre of newsmen--black and white--revealed to a nation its most shameful shortcomings that compelled its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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 09/04/2007
ISBN: 9780679735656
Pages: 518
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.20w x 1.10d
Award: Pulitzer Prize - Winner

Review Citations: New York Times Book Review 09/30/2007 pg. 28
Multicultural Review 03/01/2008 pg. 62