Race Beat

An unprecedented examination of how news stories editorials and photographs in the American press--and the journalists responsible for them--profoundly changed the nation's thinking about civil rights in the South during the 1950s and '60s. <p/>Roberts and Klibanoff draw on private correspondence notes from secret meetings unpublished articles and interviews to show how a dedicated cadre of newsmen--black and white--revealed to a nation its most shameful shortcomings that compelled its citizens to act. Meticulously researched and vividly rendered <i>The Race Beat</i> is an extraordinary account of one of the most calamitous periods in our nation's history as told by those who covered it.