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Author:
Nelson, Jack, 1929-2009.
Title:
Scoop : the evolution of a southern reporter / Jack Nelson ; edited by Barbara Matusow ; introduction by Hank Klibanoff ; epilogue by Richard T. Cooper.
Publisher:
University Press of Mississippi,
Copyright Date:
c2013
Description:
xiv, 188 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Subject:
Nelson, Jack,--1929-2009.
Journalists--United States--Biography.
Civil rights--Southern States--History--20th century.
Southern States--Race relations.
Other Authors:
Matusow, Barbara.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
A taste of injustice -- Birth of a salesman -- Biloxi boy -- "Scoop" -- Sin and salt water -- My so-called military career -- Atlanta -- Back on the vice beat -- Little Rock -- A snake pit called Milledgeville -- Dead men voting -- Sin in the classic city -- Harvard man -- The murder of Lemuel Penn -- Making the break -- Selma -- Jim Crow justice -- The meanest town in the south -- Deacons for defense and justice -- The Orangeburg Massacre -- Travels with George -- Martin Luther King Jr.: from Gee's Bend to Memphis -- Ambush in Meridian -- Number one on J. Edgar Hoover's shit list.
ISBN:
1617036595 (ebook)
9781617036590 (ebook)
1617036587 (cloth : alk. paper)
9781617036583 (cloth : alk. paper)
OCLC:
(OCoLC)793219722
LCCN:
2012020841
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)
TYPH572 -- Cedar Rapids Public Library (Cedar Rapids)
PRAX771 -- Cowles Library (Des Moines)
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)
YEPF572 -- Marion Public Library (Marion)

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