The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, And the Awakening of a Nation - Tapa dura

Roberts, Gene; Klibanoff, Hank

 
9780679403814: The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, And the Awakening of a Nation
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ISBN 10: 0679403817 ISBN 13: 9780679403814
Editorial: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 2006

Sinopsis

Critically analyzes how the new stories, editorials, and photographs in the American press--as well as the journalists responsible for them--helped transform the nation's attitude toward civil rights in the South during the 1950s and 1960s, looking at the Emmett Till case, the Montgomery bus boycott, the Birmingham bombings, and other key events and personalities. 30,000 first printing.

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Gene Roberts is a journalism professor at the University of Maryland, College Park. He was a reporter with the Goldsboro News-Argus and The Virginian-Pilot, and a reporter and editor with The News & Observer and the Detroit Free Press before joining The New York Times in 1965, where until 1972 he served as chief southern and civil rights correspondent, chief war correspondent in South Vietnam, and national editor. During his eighteen years as executive editor of The Philadelphia Inquirer, his staff won seventeen Pulitzer Prizes. He later became the managing editor of the The New York Times.

A native of Alabama, Hank Klibanoff is the managing editor for news at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. He is a former metro reporter, national correspondent based in Chicago, business editor, and deputy managing editor of The Philadelphia Inquirer, where he worked for twenty years. He was also a reporter for three years at The Boston Globe and six years in Mississippi for The Daily Herald, the South Mississippi Sun (now the Sun Herald) and the Delta Democrat-Times.

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Editorial
Alfred a Knopf Inc
Año de publicación
2006
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0679403817
ISBN 13 
9780679403814
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
512
Contacto del fabricante
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Persona responsable
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9780679735656: The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation (Pulitzer Prize Winner) (Vintage)

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ISBN 10:  0679735658 ISBN 13:  9780679735656
Editorial: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2007
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