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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Bibliographic Details
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
Table of Contents:
  • A taste of injustice
  • Birth of a salesman
  • Biloxi boy
  • "Scoop"
  • Sin and salt water
  • My so-called military career
  • Atlanta
  • Back on the vice beat
  • Little Rock
  • A snake pit called Milledgeville
  • Dead men voting
  • Sin in the classic city
  • Harvard man
  • The murder of Lemuel Penn
  • Making the break
  • Selma
  • Jim Crow justice
  • The meanest town in the south
  • Deacons for defense and justice
  • The Orangeburg Massacre
  • Travels with George
  • Martin Luther King Jr.: from Gee's Bend to Memphis
  • Ambush in Meridian
  • Number one on J. Edgar Hoover's shit list.

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