Deep South dispatch : memoir of a civil rights journalist

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Title remainder: memoir of a civil rights journalist

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

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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

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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

Series statement: Willie Morris books in memoir and biography

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