The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation
by Gene Roberts & Hank Klibanoff
🏆 Winner of the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for History
A meticulously researched account of how the revelations of American newsmen—Black and white—forced the civil rights agenda and transformed 20th-century U.S. society.
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