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Shocking the conscience : a reporter's account of the civil rights movement /
Writing for the magazines Jet and Ebony for 53 years, Simeon Booker was on the front lines of virtually every major event of the revolution that transformed America. This book begins with a massive voting rights rally in the Mississippi Delta town of Mound Bayou in 1955: before the next run of the w...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Jackson :
University Press of Mississippi,
2013
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Writing for the magazines Jet and Ebony for 53 years, Simeon Booker was on the front lines of virtually every major event of the revolution that transformed America. This book begins with a massive voting rights rally in the Mississippi Delta town of Mound Bayou in 1955: before the next run of the weekly Jet, the killings would begin. Booker vowed that lynchings would no longer be ignored beyond the Black press. When a boy was reported missing, he stayed on it, through one of the most infamous murder trials in U.S. history - his coverage of Emmett Till's death lighting a fire that would galvanise the movement. This is the story of the century that changed everything about journalism, politics, and more in America, as only Booker, the dean of the Black press, could tell it. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xii, 334 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-322) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781617037900 1617037907 1621039498 9781621039495 1283913569 9781283913560 |