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History Lover's Guide to Omaha (Hardcover): Eileen Wirth, Carol McCabe History Lover's Guide to Omaha (Hardcover)
Eileen Wirth, Carol McCabe
R1,021 R817 Discovery Miles 8 170 Save R204 (20%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Omaha's Henry Doorly Zoo & Aquarium (Hardcover): Eileen Wirth Omaha's Henry Doorly Zoo & Aquarium (Hardcover)
Eileen Wirth; Edited by Carol McCabe
R837 R685 Discovery Miles 6 850 Save R152 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Omaha's Historic Houses of Worship (Hardcover): Eileen Wirth, Carol McCabe Omaha's Historic Houses of Worship (Hardcover)
Eileen Wirth, Carol McCabe
R842 R691 Discovery Miles 6 910 Save R151 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Shocking the Conscience - A Reporter's Account of the Civil Rights Movement (Paperback): Simeon Booker Shocking the Conscience - A Reporter's Account of the Civil Rights Movement (Paperback)
Simeon Booker; As told to Carol McCabe Booker
R932 R741 Discovery Miles 7 410 Save R191 (20%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Within a few years of its first issue in 1951, Jet, a pocket-sized 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 glossy, big sister Ebony, for fifty-three years, longer than any other journalist, Washington bureau chief Simeon Booker was on the front lines of virtually every major event of the revolution that transformed America. Rather than tracking the freedom struggle from the usually cited ignition points, Shocking the Conscience begins with a massive voting rights rally in the Mississippi Delta town of Mound Bayou in 1955. It's the first rally since the Supreme Court's Brown decision struck fear in the hearts of segregationists across the former Confederacy. 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 vowed that lynchings would no longer be ignored beyond the black press. Jet was reaching into households across America, and he was determined to cover the next murder like none before. He had only a few weeks to wait. A small item on the AP wire reported that a Chicago boy vacationing in Mississippi was missing. Booker was on it, and stayed on it, through one of the most infamous murder trials in US history. His coverage of Emmett Till's death lit a fire that would galvanize the movement, while a succession of US presidents wished it would go away. 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.

Alone atop the Hill - The Autobiography of Alice Dunnigan, Pioneer of the National Black Press (Paperback): Carol McCabe Booker Alone atop the Hill - The Autobiography of Alice Dunnigan, Pioneer of the National Black Press (Paperback)
Carol McCabe Booker
R688 R569 Discovery Miles 5 690 Save R119 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In 1942 Alice Allison Dunnigan, a sharecropper's daughter from Kentucky, made her way to the nation's capital and a career in journalism that eventually led her to the White House. With Alone atop the Hill, Carol McCabe Booker has condensed Dunnigan's 1974 self-published autobiography to appeal to a general audience and has added scholarly annotations that provide historical context. Dunnigan's dynamic story reveals her importance to the fields of journalism, women's history, and the civil rights movement and creates a compelling portrait of a groundbreaking American. Dunnigan recounts her formative years in rural Kentucky as she struggled for a living, telling bluntly and simply what life was like in a Border State in the first half of the twentieth century. Later she takes readers to Washington, D.C., where we see her rise from a typist during World War II to a reporter. Ultimately she would become the first black female reporter accredited to the White House; authorized to travel with a U.S. president; credentialed by the House and Senate Press Galleries; accredited to the Department of State and the Supreme Court; voted into the White House Newswomen's Association and the Women's National Press Club; and recognized as a Washington sports reporter. A contemporary of Helen Thomas and a forerunner of Ethel Payne, Dunnigan traveled with President Truman on his coast-to-coast, whistle-stop tour; was the first reporter to query President Eisenhower about civil rights; and provided front-page coverage for more than one hundred black newspapers of virtually every race issue before the Congress, the federal courts, and the presidential administration. Here she provides an uninhibited, unembellished, and unvarnished look at the terrain, the players, and the politics in a roughand- tumble national capital struggling to make its way through a nascent, postwar racial revolution.

Alone Atop the Hill - The Autobiography of Alice Dunnigan, Pioneer of the National Black Press (Hardcover): Carol McCabe Booker Alone Atop the Hill - The Autobiography of Alice Dunnigan, Pioneer of the National Black Press (Hardcover)
Carol McCabe Booker; Foreword by Simeon Booker
R769 R643 Discovery Miles 6 430 Save R126 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In 1942 Alice Allison Dunnigan, a sharecropper's daughter from Kentucky, made her way to the nation's capitol and a career in journalism that eventually led her to the White House. With Alone atop the Hill, Carol McCabe Booker has condensed Dunnigan's 1974 self-published autobiography to appeal to a general audience and has added scholarly annotations that provide historical context. Dunnigan's dynamic story reveals her importance to the fields of journalism, women's history, and the civil rights movement and creates a compelling portrait of a ground-breaking American. Dunnigan recounts her formative years in rural Kentucky as she struggled for a living, telling bluntly and simply what life was like in a Border State in the first half of the twentieth century. Later she takes readers to Washington, D.C., where we see her rise from a typist during World War II to a reporter. Ultimately she would become the first black female reporter accredited to the White House; to travel with a U.S. president; credentialed by the House and Senate Press Galleries; accredited to the Department of State and the Supreme Court; voted into the White House Newswomen's Association and the Women's National Press Club; and recognized as a Washington sports reporter. A contemporary of Helen Thomas and a forerunner of Ethel Payne, Dunnigan travelled with President Truman on his coast-to-coast, whistle-stop tour; was the first reporter to query President Eisenhower about civil rights; and provided front-page coverage for more than one hundred black newspapers of virtually every race issue before the Congress, the federal courts, and the presidential administration. Here she provides an uninhibited, unembellished, and unvarnished look at the terrain, the players, and the politics in a rough-and-tumble national capital struggling to make its way through a nascent, post-war racial revolution.

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