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

By Gene Roberts, Hank Klibanoff

This is the story of how America awakened to its race problem, of how a nation that longed for unity after World War II came instead to see, hear, and learn about the shocking indignities and injustices of racial segregation in the South.


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