Includes a PDF of photographs. Compact discs. Read by January LaVoy.
Contents:
Coming to The Washington Post, 1961 -- Assignment: Mississippi, 1962 -- Growing Up a Preacher's Kid, 1936-1961 -- Being Mrs. Sam Gilliam, 1962-1982 -- Return to The Washington Post/The Style Years and Pounding the Institute for Journalism Education, 1972-1979 -- Voice for the Voiceless: The Column and National Association of Black Journalists Years, 1979-1997 -- Last Years at The Washington Post: Is There Anything Else You Want to Do? 1998-2003 - Epilogue - Acknowledgments -- Appendix 1 Fifty Years of Success and Setbacks in Media Diversity Jacqueline Trescott -- Appendix 2 A Black Press Time Line and Current African American Newspapers Angela P. Dodson -- Appendix 3 First Wave of Black Columnists Working at Daily Newspapers Angela P. Dodson -- Appendix 4 Founders of the National Association of Black Journalists Angela P. Dodson.
Summary:
Dorothy Butler Gilliam, whose fifty-year-career as a journalist put her in the forefront of the fight for social justice, offers a comprehensive view of racial relations and the media in the US, covering a wide swath of media history--from the era of game-changing Negro newspapers like the Chicago Defender to the civil rights movement, feminism, and our current imperfect diversity.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.