March to a Promised Land: The Civil Rights Files of a White Reporter 1952-1968 (Capital Currents) - Tapa dura

Kuettner, Al

 
9781933102283: March to a Promised Land: The Civil Rights Files of a White Reporter 1952-1968 (Capital Currents)
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ISBN 10: 1933102284 ISBN 13: 9781933102283
Editorial: Capital Books Inc, 2006

Sinopsis

In March to a Promised Land, veteran reporter Al Kuettner begins: "You had to walk in the footsteps of these people--black and white--to get some understanding of their deep feelings, their prejudices, the sad deprivation suffered by so many blacks, the fear in whites. You had to walk and talk with them, and that’s what I did for 15 years, knowing that this story could not unfold from reading propaganda statements from both sides of the controversy. This was a people story." Al Kuettner was a young, white Southern reporter when the civil rights struggle began in 1952, the year he was assigned to cover it by the wire service United Press. During those years he traveled extensively throughout the U.S., talking with hundreds of people, black and white, witnessing the events that transformed American race relations. In this book, Al, now 93 years old, retraces his steps, reexamining the history he witnessed in the making, and questioning blacks and whites about the legacy of change. While he traces the events he witnessed from the 1952 announcement that the Supreme Court would review Brown vs. Board of Education to the tragic assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., in 1968---his vision is informed by the future and by his own determination to present the events honestly.

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In March to a Promised Land, veteran reporter Al Kuettner begins: "You had to walk in the footsteps of these people--black and white--to get some understanding of their deep feelings, their prejudices, the sad deprivation suffered by so many blacks, the fear in whites. You had to walk and talk with them, and that’s what I did for 15 years, knowing that this story could not unfold from reading propaganda statements from both sides of the controversy. This was a people story." Al Kuettner was a young, white Southern reporter when the civil rights struggle began in 1952, the year he was assigned to cover it by the wire service United Press. During those years he traveled extensively throughout the U.S., talking with hundreds of people, black and white, witnessing the events that transformed American race relations. In this book, Al, now 93 years old, retraces his steps, reexamining the history he witnessed in the making, and questioning blacks and whites about the legacy of change. While he traces the events he witnessed from the 1952 announcement that the Supreme Court would review Brown vs. Board of Education to the tragic assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., in 1968---his vision is informed by the future and by his own determination to present the events honestly.

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Editorial
Capital Books Inc
Año de publicación
2006
Idioma
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ISBN 10 
1933102284
ISBN 13 
9781933102283
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Número de páginas
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9781933102498: March to a Promised Land: The Civil Rights Files of a White Reporter 1952-1968 (Capital Currents Book)

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ISBN 10:  1933102497 ISBN 13:  9781933102498
Editorial: Capital Books Inc, 2007
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