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  • Memoir of a Civil Rights Journalist (Willie Morris Books in Memoir and Biography)
  • By: John N. Herbers
  • Narrated by: Kirk Winkler
  • Length: 12 hrs and 12 mins
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By: John N. Herbers
Narrated by: Kirk Winkler
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Summary

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.

Herbers' reporting began in 1951, when he covered the brutal execution of Willie McGee, 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 firsthand 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.

The book is published by University Press of Mississippi. The audiobook is published by University Press Audiobooks.

“A wonderful and important memoir ... groundbreaking coverage of the civil rights movement.” (Washington Times)

“John made a lasting contribution to the movement and to America.” (Congressman John Lewis)

“John Herbers has always been one of our heroes.” (Cokie Roberts, bestselling author and commentator for ABC News and NPR)

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