false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171583450m/108422.jpg 108422 3 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 Drawing on private correspondence, notes from secret meetings, unpublished articles, and interviews, veteran journalists Gene Roberts and Hank Klibanoff go behind the headlines and datelines to show how a dedicated cadre of newsmen,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. We watch the black press move bravely into the front row of the confrontation, only to be attacked and kept away from the action. Following the Supreme Court's 1954 decision striking down school segregation and the South's mobilization against it, we see a growing number of white reporters venture South to cover the Emmett Till murder trial, the Montgomery bus boycott, and the integration of the University of Alabama. We witness some southern editors joining the call for massive resistance and working with segregationist organizations to thwart compliance. But we also see a handful of other southern editors write forcefully and daringly for obedience to federal mandates, signaling to the nation that moderate forces were prepared to push the region into the mainstream. The pace quickens in Little Rock, where reporters test the boundaries of journalistic integrity, then gain momentum as they cover shuttered schools in Virginia, sit-ins in North Carolina, mob-led riots in Mississippi, Freedom Ride buses being set afire, fire hoses and dogs in Birmingham, and long, tense marches through the rural South. For many journalists, the conditions they found, the fear they felt, and the violence they saw were transforming. Their growing disgust matched the mounting countrywide outrage as <i>The New York Times</i>, <i>Newsweek</i>, NBC News, and other major news organizations, many of them headed by southerners, turned a regional story into a national drama. Meticulously researched and vividly rendered, <i>The Race Beat</i> is an unprecedented account of one of the most volatile periods in our nation's history, as told by those who covered it. 104482 31 10 2006 The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation total:108|5:54|4:34|3:17|2:3|1:0| 108 463 259 29 4 0 true false Tue Jul 14 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 05 20:07:39 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 14 22:05:26 -0700 2009
It examined the role of the larger black newspapers, such as the Chicago Defender, Baltimore Afro-American, and the Pittsburgh Courier, and the black press in general, as well as a focusing on a number of more moderate to...more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue May 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 26 16:30:09 -0700 2009 Tue May 19 09:59:58 -0700 2009 1 more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sun May 11 00:02:43 -0700 2008 Sun May 11 00:11:42 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Jan 09 20:18:36 -0800 2008 Thu Jan 17 13:31:19 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Nov 06 07:44:27 -0800 2007 Fri Sep 28 12:59:01 -0700 2007 Tue Nov 06 07:43:21 -0800 2007 more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Wed Jun 20 19:35:44 -0700 2007 Wed Jun 20 19:53:01 -0700 2007 It exposes the insolence, cruelty and insular nature of this part of the country up until the mid-60s. Some would argue little has changed. Maybe so. But my faith in humanity says much ha...more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Feb 16 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Nov 01 22:28:26 -0700 2008 Mon Feb 16 19:47:15 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Mon Oct 01 14:14:00 -0700 2007 Mon Oct 01 14:22:46 -0700 2007 more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Feb 24 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Mar 03 08:25:04 -0800 2009 Tue Mar 03 08:28:08 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Jul 24 11:43:03 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 24 11:44:37 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Apr 23 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Dec 26 15:03:16 -0800 2008 Thu Apr 23 05:20:55 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Sep 15 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Jan 28 18:29:12 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 28 18:29:29 -0800 2009 5 0 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Thu Apr 03 13:31:18 -0700 2008 Sat Apr 05 07:28:30 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Oct 14 11:43:54 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 14 11:46:05 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Sat Apr 04 13:04:38 -0700 2009 Sat Apr 04 13:05:12 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed Jul 18 09:06:55 -0700 2007 Tue Nov 13 09:56:09 -0800 2007
Plus, knowing that the highlight of the book is going to be reading about Ira A. Lipman makes me want to bash my h...more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Apr 01 21:23:01 -0700 2008 Mon Apr 28 12:32:59 -0700 2008 I'll keep in in touch but briefly, this book tells the story of a few liberal minded press editors who broug...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Jul 26 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Nov 24 18:25:21 -0800 2007 Sun Jul 26 10:26:51 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Jun 11 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 29 18:01:01 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 12 09:16:41 -0700 2009
I recommend it highly.]]> 3 0 false false Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu Jul 12 12:11:29 -0700 2007 Thu Jan 10 06:56:55 -0800 2008 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=108422