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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Booker, Simeon, 1918-2017 (Autor)
Otros Autores: Booker, Carol McCabe, 1944-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2013
Temas:
Booker, Simeon, > 1918-2017.
Booker, Simeon, > 1918-2017
1900-1999
Civil rights movements > United States > History > 20th century.
Civil rights movements > Press coverage > United States.
Journalism > United States > History > 20th century.
Journalists > United States > Biography.
African American journalists > Biography.
Mouvements des droits de l'homme > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Mouvements des droits de l'homme > Couverture de presse > États-Unis.
Journalistes > États-Unis > Biographies.
Journalistes noirs américains > Biographies.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Civil Rights.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Human Rights.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Editors, Journalists, Publishers.
African American journalists
Civil rights movements
Journalism
Journalists
United States
Electronic books.
Biographies
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The sleeping giant
  • "Time is running out"
  • The rally ends, the killing begins
  • Born to dream
  • "Let them see what I've seen"
  • The trial
  • "The little magazine that could" comes to Washington
  • "A communist under every bed"
  • Ike's first term
  • The battle of Little Rock
  • Eisenhower Redux
  • Baltimore, my Baltimore
  • A tale of two campaigns
  • A new day dawning
  • The freedom rides
  • No ordinary football game
  • Camelot, the final act
  • A Southern president
  • "All the way with LBJ"
  • Fighting on
  • A familiar face
  • The end of the beginning.

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