Winner · 2007 Pulitzer Prize for History

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

Name: The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation
ISBN: 9780679735656

by Gene Roberts & Hank Klibanoff

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Publisher: Vintage
First published: 2006
Length: ≈ 544 pages
Reading time: 14–19 hours
ISBN: 9780679735656

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What is this book about?

The Race Beat is about the part that newspapers and television played in the American Civil Rights Movement. Its authors, the journalists Gene Roberts and Hank Klibanoff, show the effect that national reporting had on the progress towards the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act.

Source: The Race Beat