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Herbers, John

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Summary: Former New York Times correspondent John N. Herbers (1923-2017), who covered the civil rights movement for more than a decade, has produced Deep South Dispatch: Memoir of a Civil Rights Journalist, a compelling story of national and historical significance. Born in the South during a time of entrenched racial segregation, Herbers witnessed a succession of landmark civil rights uprisings that rocked the country, the world, and his own conscience. Herbers's retrospective is a timely and critical illumination on America's current racial dilemmas and ongoing quest for justice. Herbers's reporting began in 1951, when he covered the brutal execution of Willie McGee, a black man convicted for the rape of a white housewife, and the 1955 trial for the murder of Emmett Till, a black teenager killed for allegedly whistling at a white woman. With immediacy and first-hand detail, Herbers describes the assassination of John F. Kennedy; the death of four black girls in the Birmingham, Alabama, church bombing; extensive travels and interviews with Martin Luther King Jr.; Ku Klux Klan cross-burning rallies and private meetings; the Freedom Summer murders in Philadelphia, Mississippi; and marches and riots in St. Augustine, Florida, and Selma, Alabama, that led to passage of national civil rights legislation. This account is also a personal journey as Herbers witnessed the movement with the conflicted eyes of a man dedicated to his southern heritage but who also rejected the prescribed laws and mores of a prejudiced society. His story provides a complex understanding of how the southern status quo, in which the white establishment benefited at the expense of African Americans, was transformed by a national outcry for justice

Language: eng

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Jackson, University Press of Mississippi, 2018

Extent: xiv, 260 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates

Note: Includes index

Contents

An old secret revealed
A small-town cocoon
Spilled seed
Lessons of war
The mystery of Mississippi
Death bolted swiftly through his body
A rare work environment
Sumner: a good place to raise a boy
Thar he
Living with political insanity
Overcoming pressures
Out of Mississippi
Bombingham
A brewing storm
Dallas: dark night of the soul
End of a long year
Justice delayed: the first Beckwith trial
A long, hot summer of discontent
Bloodshed at the beach
Purifying prelude
A hooded society of bigots
Paradox in the South
I've got bitterness in my heart
I'm innocent
The war in men's souls
Hope in Selma
Pulling at the fiber
A wild and woolly night
Bloody Sunday
A second attempt
What killed James Reeb?
A climactic end
Still standing

Isbn: 9781496828194

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Label: Deep South dispatch : memoir of a civil rights journalist

Title: Deep South dispatch

Title remainder: memoir of a civil rights journalist

Statement of responsibility: John N. Herbers with Anne Farris Rosen ; foreword by Gene Roberts

Creator

Herbers, John

Language: eng

Summary: Former New York Times correspondent John N. Herbers (1923-2017), who covered the civil rights movement for more than a decade, has produced Deep South Dispatch: Memoir of a Civil Rights Journalist, a compelling story of national and historical significance. Born in the South during a time of entrenched racial segregation, Herbers witnessed a succession of landmark civil rights uprisings that rocked the country, the world, and his own conscience. Herbers's retrospective is a timely and critical illumination on America's current racial dilemmas and ongoing quest for justice. Herbers's reporting began in 1951, when he covered the brutal execution of Willie McGee, a black man convicted for the rape of a white housewife, and the 1955 trial for the murder of Emmett Till, a black teenager killed for allegedly whistling at a white woman. With immediacy and first-hand detail, Herbers describes the assassination of John F. Kennedy; the death of four black girls in the Birmingham, Alabama, church bombing; extensive travels and interviews with Martin Luther King Jr.; Ku Klux Klan cross-burning rallies and private meetings; the Freedom Summer murders in Philadelphia, Mississippi; and marches and riots in St. Augustine, Florida, and Selma, Alabama, that led to passage of national civil rights legislation. This account is also a personal journey as Herbers witnessed the movement with the conflicted eyes of a man dedicated to his southern heritage but who also rejected the prescribed laws and mores of a prejudiced society. His story provides a complex understanding of how the southern status quo, in which the white establishment benefited at the expense of African Americans, was transformed by a national outcry for justice

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Willie Morris books in memoir and biography

Biography type: autobiography

Cataloging source: NcU/DLC

http://library.link/vocab/creatorName: Herbers, John

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070.92
B

Government publication: government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

Illustrations: plates

Index: index present

LC call number: PN4874.H47

LC item number: A3 2018

Literary form: non fiction

Nature of contents: bibliography

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Rosen, Anne Farris
Roberts, Gene

Series statement: Willie Morris books in memoir and biography

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Herbers, John
Journalists
Civil rights movements
Herbers, John
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
HISTORY
POLITICAL SCIENCE
Journalists
Southern States

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Label: Deep South dispatch : memoir of a civil rights journalist, John N. Herbers with Anne Farris Rosen ; foreword by Gene Roberts

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Deep South dispatch : memoir of a civil rights journalist

Publication

Jackson, University Press of Mississippi, 2018

Note: Includes index

Bibliography note: Includes bibliographical references and index

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Content category: text

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Contents: An old secret revealed -- A small-town cocoon -- Spilled seed -- Lessons of war -- The mystery of Mississippi -- Death bolted swiftly through his body -- A rare work environment -- Sumner: a good place to raise a boy -- Thar he -- Living with political insanity -- Overcoming pressures -- Out of Mississippi -- Bombingham -- A brewing storm -- Dallas: dark night of the soul -- End of a long year -- Justice delayed: the first Beckwith trial -- A long, hot summer of discontent -- Bloodshed at the beach -- Purifying prelude -- A hooded society of bigots -- Paradox in the South -- I've got bitterness in my heart -- I'm innocent -- The war in men's souls -- Hope in Selma -- Pulling at the fiber -- A wild and woolly night -- Bloody Sunday -- A second attempt -- What killed James Reeb? -- A climactic end -- Still standing

Control code: 1007506749

Dimensions: 24 cm.

Extent: xiv, 260 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates

Isbn: 9781496828194

Lccn: 2017049188

Media category: unmediated

Media MARC source: rdamedia

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Other control number: 40028125144

System control number: (OCoLC)1007506749

Label: Deep South dispatch : memoir of a civil rights journalist, John N. Herbers with Anne Farris Rosen ; foreword by Gene Roberts

Publication

Jackson, University Press of Mississippi, 2018

Note: Includes index

Bibliography note: Includes bibliographical references and index

Carrier category: volume

Carrier category code

Carrier MARC source: rdacarrier

Content category: text

Content type code

Content type MARC source: rdacontent

Contents: An old secret revealed -- A small-town cocoon -- Spilled seed -- Lessons of war -- The mystery of Mississippi -- Death bolted swiftly through his body -- A rare work environment -- Sumner: a good place to raise a boy -- Thar he -- Living with political insanity -- Overcoming pressures -- Out of Mississippi -- Bombingham -- A brewing storm -- Dallas: dark night of the soul -- End of a long year -- Justice delayed: the first Beckwith trial -- A long, hot summer of discontent -- Bloodshed at the beach -- Purifying prelude -- A hooded society of bigots -- Paradox in the South -- I've got bitterness in my heart -- I'm innocent -- The war in men's souls -- Hope in Selma -- Pulling at the fiber -- A wild and woolly night -- Bloody Sunday -- A second attempt -- What killed James Reeb? -- A climactic end -- Still standing

Control code: 1007506749

Dimensions: 24 cm.

Extent: xiv, 260 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates

Isbn: 9781496828194

Lccn: 2017049188

Media category: unmediated

Media MARC source: rdamedia

Media type code

Other control number: 40028125144

System control number: (OCoLC)1007506749

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