Shocking the Conscience A Reporter's Account of the Civil Rights Movement

Name: Shocking the Conscience A Reporter's Account of the Civil Rights Movement
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ISBN: 9781617037894

ISBN-10: 1617037893

ISBN-13: 9781617037894

Edition: 2013

Authors: Simeon Booker, Carol McCabe Booker

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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 glossy, big sisterEbony, 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 Consciencebegins with a massive voting rights rally in the Mississippi Delta town of Mound Bayou in 1955. It's the first rally since the Supreme…

Book details

List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Publication date: 2/25/2013
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 352
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.50" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.584
Language: English

Carol McCabe Booker, Washington, D.C., is an attorney and former journalist. And, she is married to Simeon Booker.



Introduction



The Sleeping Giant



"Time Is Running Out"



The Rally Ends; The Killing Begins



Born to Dream



"Let Them See What I've Seen"



The Trial



"The Little Magazine That Could" Comes to Washington



"A Communist under Every Bed"



Ike's First Term



The Battle of Little Rock



Eisenhower Redux



Baltimore, My Baltimore



A Tale of Two Campaigns



A New Day Dawning



The Freedom Rides



No Ordinary Football Game



Camelot, The Final Act



A Southern President



"All the Way with LBJ"



Fighting On



A Familiar Face



The End of the Beginning


Acknowledgments


Notes


Selected Bibliography


Index