The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation

图书标准信息

• 作者 Gene Roberts 著
• 出版社 Random House US
• 出版时间 2007-09
• 版次 1
• ISBN 9780679735656
• 定价 205.40元
• 装帧 平装
• 开本 16开
• 纸张 胶版纸
• 页数 544页
• 正文语种 英语
• 丛书 Vintage

【内容简介】

Anunprecedentedexaminationofhownewsstories,editorialsandphotographsintheAmericanpress—andthejournalistsresponsibleforthem—profoundlychangedthenation’sthinkingaboutcivilrightsintheSouthduringthe1950sand‘60s.

RobertsandKlibanoffdrawonprivatecorrespondence,notesfromsecretmeetings,unpublishedarticles,andinterviewstoshowhowadedicatedcadreofnewsmen—blackandwhite—revealedtoanationitsmostshamefulshortcomingsthatcompelleditscitizenstoact.Meticulouslyresearchedandvividlyrendered,TheRaceBeatisanextraordinaryaccountofoneofthemostcalamitousperiodsinournation’shistory,astoldbythosewhocoveredit.

【作者简介】

GeneRobertsisaretiredjournalismprofessorattheUniversityofMaryland,CollegePark.HewasareporterandeditorwiththeDetroitFreePress,TheRaleigh,N.C.,News&Observer,NorfolkVirginian-PilotandTheGoldsboroNews-ArgusbeforejoiningTheNewYorkTimesin1965,whereuntil1972heservedaschiefSouthernandcivilrightscorrespondent,chiefwarcorrespondentinSouthVietnam,andnationaleditor.Duringhis18yearsasexecutiveeditorofThePhiladelphiaInquirer,hisstaffwon17PulitzerPrizes.HelaterbecamemanagingeditoroftheTimes.AnativeofAlabama,HankKlibanoffistheManagingeditor/newsatTheAtlantaJournal-Constitution.HeistheformerDeputyManagingEditorforThePhiladelphiaInquirer,whereheworkedfor20years.HewasalsoareporterforthreeyearsattheBostonGlobeandsixyearsinMississippiforTheDailyHerald,SouthMississippiSun(nowtheSun-Herald)andtheGreenvilleDeltaDemocratTimes.

【目录】

CHAPTER 1: An American Dilemma: “An Astonishing Ignorance. . .”

CHAPTER 2: “A Fighting Press”

CHAPTER 3: Southern Editors in a Time of Ferment

CHAPTER 4: Ashmore Views the South

CHAPTER 5: The Brown Decisions Harden the South

CHAPTER 6: Into Mississippi

CHAPTER 7: The Till Trial

CHAPTER 8: Where Massive and Passive Resistance Meet

CHAPTER 9: Alabama

CHAPTER 10: Toward Little Rock

CHAPTER 11: Little Rock Showdown

CHAPTER 12: New Eyes on the Old South

CHAPTER 13: Backfire in Virginia

CHAPTER 14: From Sit-ins to SNCC

CHAPTER 15: Alabama versus the Times, Freedom Riders versus theSouth

CHAPTER 16: Albany

CHAPTER 17: Ole Miss

CHAPTER 18: Wallace and King

CHAPTER 19: Defiance at Close Range

CHAPTER 20: The Killing Season

CHAPTER 21: Freedom Summer

CHAPTER 22: Selma

CHAPTER 23: Beyond

Acknowledgments

Notes

Bibliography

Index