Deep South Dispatch : Memoir of a Civil Rights Journalist Hardback
by John N. Herbers
Part of the Willie Morris Books in Memoir and Biography series
Hardback
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Former New York Times correspondent John N. Herbers (1923-2017), who covered the civil rights movement for more than a decade, has produced Deep South Dispatch: Memoir of a Civil Rights Journalist, a compelling story of national and historical significance.
Born in the South during a time of entrenched racial segregation, Herbers witnessed a succession of landmark civil rights uprisings that rocked the country, the world, and his own conscience.
Herbers's retrospective is a timely and critical illumination on America's current racial dilemmas and ongoing quest for justice. Herbers's reporting began in 1951, when he covered the brutal execution of Willie McGee, a black man convicted for the rape of a white housewife, and the 1955 murder trial of Emmett Till, a black teenager killed for allegedly whistling at a white woman.
With immediacy and first-hand detail, Herbers describes the assassination of John F.
Kennedy; the death of four black girls in the Birmingham, Alabama, church bombing; extensive travels and interviews with Martin Luther King Jr.; Ku Klux Klan cross-burning rallies and private meetings; the Freedom Summer murders in Philadelphia, Mississippi; and marches and riots in St.
Augustine, Florida, and Selma, Alabama, that led to passage of national civil rights legislation. This account is also a personal journey as Herbers witnessed the movement with the conflicted eyes of a man dedicated to his southern heritage but who also rejected the prescribed laws and mores of a prejudiced society.
His story provides a complex understanding of how the southern status quo, in which the white establishment benefited at the expense of African Americans, was transformed by a national outcry for justice.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:250 pages
- Publisher:University Press of Mississippi
- Publication Date:30/04/2018
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Out of Stock - We are unable to provide an estimated availability date for this product
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:250 pages
- Publisher:University Press of Mississippi
- Publication Date:30/04/2018
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- ISBN:9781496816740
