Description:Shocking the Conscience is an unforgettable chronicle by the first full-time African American reporter for the Washington Post and Jet magazine's White House correspondent for a half-century.Within a few years of its first issue in 1951, Jet, a pocket-sized magazine, became the "bible" for news of the civil rights movement. It was said, only half-jokingly, "if it wasn't in Jet, it didn't happen." Writing for the magazine and its glossy big sister, Ebony, for fifty-three years, longer than any other journalist, Washington bureau chief Simeon Booker was on the front lines of virtually every major event of the revolution that transformed America.This is the story of the century that changed everything about journalism, politics, and more in America, as only Simeon Booker, the dean of the black press, could tell it.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Shocking the Conscience: A Reporter's Account of the Civil Rights Movement. To get started finding Shocking the Conscience: A Reporter's Account of the Civil Rights Movement, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
Pages
352
Format
PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition
Publisher
University Press of Mississippi
Release
2013
ISBN
1617037893
Shocking the Conscience: A Reporter's Account of the Civil Rights Movement
Description: Shocking the Conscience is an unforgettable chronicle by the first full-time African American reporter for the Washington Post and Jet magazine's White House correspondent for a half-century.Within a few years of its first issue in 1951, Jet, a pocket-sized magazine, became the "bible" for news of the civil rights movement. It was said, only half-jokingly, "if it wasn't in Jet, it didn't happen." Writing for the magazine and its glossy big sister, Ebony, for fifty-three years, longer than any other journalist, Washington bureau chief Simeon Booker was on the front lines of virtually every major event of the revolution that transformed America.This is the story of the century that changed everything about journalism, politics, and more in America, as only Simeon Booker, the dean of the black press, could tell it.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Shocking the Conscience: A Reporter's Account of the Civil Rights Movement. To get started finding Shocking the Conscience: A Reporter's Account of the Civil Rights Movement, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.