内容简介
An unprecedented examination of how news stories, editorials
and photographs in the American press—and the journalists
responsible for them—profoundly changed the nation’s thinking about
civil rights in the South during the 1950s and ‘60s.
Roberts and Klibanoff draw on private correspondence, notes from
secret meetings, unpublished articles, and interviews to show how a
dedicated cadre of newsmen—black and white—revealed to a nation its
most shameful shortcomings that compelled its citizens to act.
Meticulously researched and vividly rendered, The Race Beat
is an extraordinary account of one of the most calamitous periods
in our nation’s history, as told by those who covered it.