{"product_id":"the-press-and-race-mississippi-journalists-confront-the-movement-9781934110522","title":"The Press and Race: Mississippi Journalists Confront the Movement","description":"The fervent opinions and historic decisions of editorial writers in tumultuous times \u003cp\u003eFor southern newspapers and southern readers, the social upheaval in the years following \u003ci\u003eBrown v. Board of Education\u003c\/i\u003e (1954) was, as Time put it in 1956, \"the region's biggest running story since slavery.\" The southern press struggled with the region's accommodation of the school desegregation ruling and with black America's demand for civil rights. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe nine essays in \u003ci\u003eThe Press and Race\u003c\/i\u003e illuminate the broad array of print journalists' responses to the civil rights movement in Mississippi, a state that was one of the nation's major civil rights battlegrounds. Three of the journalists covered won Pulitzer prizes for their work and one was the first woman editorial writer to earn that coveted prize. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe journalists and editors covered are Hodding Carter, Jr. (\u003ci\u003eGreenville Delta Democrat-Times\u003c\/i\u003e), J. Oliver Emmerich (\u003ci\u003eMcComb Enterprise-Journal\u003c\/i\u003e), Percy Greene (\u003ci\u003eJackson Advoc\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Davies, David R.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/25\/2001\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University Press of Mississippi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781934110522\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 312\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.01lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.70d\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"David R. Davies","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":32749933068363,"sku":"9781934110522","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0021\/1697\/6715\/products\/img_9e7b818d-9388-4e60-bf35-deb77f53366c.jpg?v=1597800764","url":"https:\/\/blackbookstore.com\/products\/the-press-and-race-mississippi-journalists-confront-the-movement-9781934110522","provider":"Black Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}