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Oral History Review 2008 35(1):99-100; doi:10.1093/ohr/ohn003
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The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation

Mary Kay Quinlan

University of Nebraska–Lincoln

THE RACE BEAT: THE PRESS, THE CIVIL RIGHTS STRUGGLE, AND THE AWAKENING OF A NATION. By Gene Roberts and Hank Klibanoff. New York: Random House, Inc., 2006. 518 pp. Softbound, $15.95.

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Journalism, it has been said, is the first rough draft of history.

In The Race Beat, Pulitzer prizewinning journalists Gene Roberts and Hank Klibanoff have come as close as anyone could to a final, definitive draft of the history of the role of the press in the civil rights movement. Their research is exhaustive and their writing is compelling, resulting in a book that reads like a hybrid: part scholarly treatise and suspense novel, part adventure tale and Greek tragedy.

It sets the scene with a detailed and informative history of the Negro press in the U.S., long predating the . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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