Shocking the Conscience : A Reporter's Account of the Civil Rights Movement

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Within a few years of its first issue in 1951, Jet, a pocket-size magazine, became the ""bible"" for news of the civil rights movement. It was said, only half-jokingly, ""If it wasn't in Jet, it didn't happen."" Writing for the magazine and its gloss...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Booker, Simeon
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2012.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Booker, Simeon, > 1918-2017.
Journalists.
Journalism.
Civil rights movements.
African American journalists.
Journalistes noirs americains > Biographies.
Journalistes > États-Unis > Biographies.
Mouvements des droits de l'homme > Couverture de presse > États-Unis.
Mouvements des droits de l'homme > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siecle.
African American journalists > Biography.
Journalists > United States > Biography.
Journalism > United States > History > 20th century.
Civil rights movements > Press coverage > United States.
Civil rights movements > United States > History > 20th century.
United States.
History.
Biographies.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
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Résumé:Within a few years of its first issue in 1951, Jet, a pocket-size magazine, became the ""bible"" for news of the civil rights movement. It was said, only half-jokingly, ""If it wasn't in Jet, it didn't happen."" Writing for the magazine and its glossy, big sister Ebony, for fifty-three years, longer than any other journalist, Washington bureau chief Simeon Booker was on the front lines of virtually every major event of the revolution that transformed America. Rather than tracking the freedom struggle from the usually cited ignition points, Shocking the Conscience begins wi.
Description matérielle:1 online resource (352 pages).
ISBN:9781621039495

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