Scoop : The Evolution of a Southern Reporter /

From a gullible cub reporter with the Daily Herald in Biloxi and Gulfport, to the pugnacious Pulitzer Prize winner at the Atlanta Constitution, to the peerless beat reporter for the Los Angeles Times covering civil rights in the South, Jack Nelson (1929-2009) was dedicated to exposing injustice and...

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Main Author: Nelson, Jack, 1929-2009
Other Authors: Cooper, Richard T., Klibanoff, Hank, Matusow, Barbara
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2013.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Nelson, Jack, > 1929-2009.
Race relations.
Journalists.
Civil rights.
Journalistes > États-Unis > Biographies.
Civil rights > Southern States > History > 20th century.
Journalists > United States > Biography.
United States.
Southern States.
États-Unis (Sud) > Relations raciales.
Southern States > Race relations.
History.
Biography.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:From a gullible cub reporter with the Daily Herald in Biloxi and Gulfport, to the pugnacious Pulitzer Prize winner at the Atlanta Constitution, to the peerless beat reporter for the Los Angeles Times covering civil rights in the South, Jack Nelson (1929-2009) was dedicated to exposing injustice and corruption wherever he found it. Whether it was the gruesome conditions at a twelve-thousand-bed mental hospital in Georgia or the cruelties of Jim Crow inequity, Nelson proved himself to be one of those rare reporters whose work affected and improved thousands of lives. H.
Item Description:Description based upon print version of record.
Physical Description:1 online resource (208 pages).
ISBN:9781621030669

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