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

Roberts and Kibanoff infuse the notably unglamorous job of reporting with the cliff-hanging suspense of your airport best-seller. Tracking the Black, Southern (conservative, liberal and moderate) and national news outlets as they struggled to cover one of the greatest American stories - the civil rights movement, this Pulitzer Prize winner gives an inside look at race politics but also a rare...more

Roberts and Kibanoff infuse the notably unglamorous job of reporting with the cliff-hanging suspense of your airport best-seller. Tracking the Black, Southern (conservative, liberal and moderate) and national news outlets as they struggled to cover one of the greatest American stories - the civil rights movement, this Pulitzer Prize winner gives an inside look at race politics but also a rare look at how they unfolded to the public through the work of a colorful network of editors and reporters. Before any media was truly "mainstream," these characters made it up as they went along. Read it.   hide