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. Born in
the South during a time of entrenched racial segregation, Herbers
witnessed a succession of landmark civil rights uprisings that
rocked the country, the world, and his own conscience. Herbers's
retrospective is a timely and critical illumination on America's
current racial dilemmas and ongoing quest for justice.Herbers's
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 first-hand 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. His story
provides a complex understanding of how the southern status quo, in
which the white establishment benefited at the expense of African
Americans, was transformed by a national outcry for justice.
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