Shocking the Conscience : a Reporter's Account of the Civil Rights Movement.
Within a few years of its first issue in 1951, Jet, a pocket-size 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 gloss...
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University Press of Mississippi,
2012
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Contents; Introduction; 1. The Sleeping Giant; 2. "Time Is Running Out"; 3. The Rally Ends; The Killing Begins; 4. Born to Dream; 5. "Let Them See What I've Seen"; 6. The Trial; 7. "The Little Magazine That Could" Comes to Washington; 8. "A Communist under Every Bed"; 9. Ike's First Term; 10. The Battle of Little Rock; 11. Eisenhower Redux; 12. Baltimore, My Baltimore; 13. A Tale of Two Campaigns; 14. A New Day Dawning; 15. The Freedom Rides; 16. No Ordinary Football Game; 17. Camelot, The Final Act; 18. A Southern President; 19. "All the Way with LBJ"; 20. Fighting On.
- 21. A Familiar Face22. The End of the Beginning; Acknowledgments; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z.