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The Race Beat

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

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  • Format: Hardcover, 528 pages
  • On Sale: October 31, 2006
  • Price: $30.00
  • ISBN: 978-0-679-40381-4 (0-679-40381-7)
The Race Beat
Written by Gene Roberts and Hank Klibanoff
Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780679403814
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Table of Contents

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 the South

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

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