Shocking the Conscience: A Reporter's Account of the Civil Rights Movement
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| Rating | : | 4.17 (957 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1617037893 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 352 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-01-14 |
| Language | : | English |
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Required Reading AJG Nowhere else have I found a more inclusive memoir on the civil rights movement than Mr. Booker's first hand account. From the humid bayous of Mississippi to the brisk streets of Chicago and from the White House to Vietnam, the Bookers recount it all. Teachers take note. This should be required reading for every student in America. Prospective and current journalists take note. Mr. and Mrs. Booker have shed a nuanced light on the fated clashes that formed the country in which we live today and on the courageous people. "Shocking the Conscience by Simeon Booker" according to J. G. Hughes. Although some events chronicled in this book happened before I was born, most were not history for me. They were current events.And, like much of the country, lynchings, beatings, hangings, torture, and gross civil rights suppression in the South wasn't exactly front-page news in my hometown.This was a time when those who are now referred to as African-American were, at best, called negro - without a capital N. Where restrooms, hotels, water fountains, and restaurants - virtually every segment of public life - was se. "Fantastic Book" according to IEA. A truely awe inspiring and thought provoking book. Mr. Booker's work is an eye opening account of the trials and tribulations of the civil rights movement.
As the Washington bureau chief for Jet and Ebony during five decades, Simeon Booker knew everyone who mattered, went everywhere that news occurred, and covered every major story in the struggle for racial equality. He told our stories to our readers but in his own waywith honesty and humility.”Linda Johnson Rice, chairman, Johnson Publishing Company“Shocking the Conscience tells a story that needs to be told about the courage and determination of a black journalist during the civil rights era. This is a history not to be passed up by anyone wanting to learn the inside story on the critical role the black press played in the nation’s most important and enduring fight for
This is the story of the century that changed everything about journalism, politics, and more in America, as only Simeon Booker, the dean of the black press, could tell it.. 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. His coverage of Emmett Till's death lit a fire that would galvanize the movement, while a succession of U.S. presidents wished it would go away. A small item on the AP wire reported that a Chicago boy vacationing in Mississippi was missing. It was also Booker's first assignment in the Deep South, and before the next run of the weekly magazine, the killings would begin. Booker was on it, and stayed on it, through one of the most infamous murder trials in U.S. He had only a few weeks to wait. Jet was reaching into households across America, and he was determi
And, she is married to Simeon Booker. . Simeon Booker, Washington, D.C., is an award-winning journalist. He was the first black staff reporter for the Washington Post and served as Jet's Washington bureau chief for fifty-one years, retiring in 2007 at the age of eighty-eight.Carol McCabe Booker, Washington, D.C., is an attorney and former journalist