{"product_id":"9781496828194-deep-south-dispatch-memoir-of-a-civil-rights-journalist","title":"Herbers John N. - Deep South Dispatch Memoir Of A Civil Rights Journalist - Paperback","description":"Binding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\nDescription: Former New York Times correspondent John N. Herbers (1923 - 2017) who covered the civil rights movement for more than a decade has produced Deep South Dispatch: Memoir of a Civil Rights Journalist a compelling story of national and historical significance. Born in the South during a time of entrenched racial segregation Herbers witnessed a succession of landmark civil rights uprisings that rocked the country the world and his own conscience. Herbers's retrospective is a timely and critical illumination on America's current racial dilemmas and ongoing quest for justice. Herbers's reporting began in 1951, when he covered the brutal execution of Willie Mc Gee a black man convicted for the rape of a white housewife and the 1955 trial for the murder of Emmett Till a black teenager killed for allegedly whistling at a white woman. With immediacy and first - hand detail Herbers describes the assassination of John F. Kennedy; the death of four black girls in the Birmingham Alabama church bombing; extensive travels and interviews with Martin Luther King Jr.; Ku Klux Klan cross - burning rallies and private meetings; the Freedom Summer murders in Philadelphia Mississippi; and marches and riots in St. Augustine Florida and Selma Alabama that led to passage of national civil rights legislation. This account is also a personal journey as Herbers witnessed the movement with the conflicted eyes of a man dedicated to his southern heritage but who also rejected the prescribed laws and mores of a prejudiced society. His story provides a complex understanding of how the southern status quo in which the white establishment benefited at the expense of African Americans was transformed by a national outcry for justice.\u003cbr\u003e\nTitle: Deep South Dispatch Memoir Of A Civil Rights Journalist\u003cbr\u003e\nAuthor(s): Herbers John N.\u003cbr\u003e\nPublisher: University Press Of Mississippi\u003cbr\u003e\nBarcode: 9781496828194\u003cbr\u003e\nPages: 288 Pages, 30 Black \u0026amp; White Illustrations\u003cbr\u003e\nPublication Date: 3\/18\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\nSeries: Willie Morris Books in Memoir and Biography\u003cbr\u003e\nCategory: Biography: General","brand":"Herbers John N.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49617599955249,"sku":"IN-G-9781496828194","price":20.3,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0644\/6759\/9594\/files\/9781496828194.jpg?v=1724637652","url":"https:\/\/bookdelivered.com\/products\/9781496828194-deep-south-dispatch-memoir-of-a-civil-rights-journalist","provider":"Book Delivered","version":"1.0","type":"link"}