Former New York Times correspondent John N.
His story provides a complex understanding of how the southern status quo, in which the white establishment benefited at the expense of African Americans, was transformed by a national outcry for justice..
This account is also a personal journey as Herbers witnessed the movement with the conflicted eyes of a man dedicated to his southern heritage but who also rejected the prescribed laws and mores of a prejudiced society.
Augustine, Florida, and Selma, Alabama, that led to passage of national Civil Rights legislation.
Kennedy; the death of four black girls in the Birmingham, Alabama, church bombing; extensive travels and interviews with Martin Luther King Jr.
Ku Klux Klan cross-burning rallies and private meetings; the Freedom Summer murders in Philadelphia, Mississippi; and marches and riots in St.
With immediacy and first-hand detail, Herbers describes the assassination of John F.
Herbers\'s reporting began in 1951, when he covered the brutal execution of Willie Mc Gee, a black man convicted for the rape of a white housewife, and the 1955 trial for the murder of Emmett Till, a black teenager killed for allegedly whistling at a white woman.
Herbers\'s retrospective is a timely and critical illumination on America\'s current racial dilemmas and ongoing quest for justice.
Born in the South during a time of entrenched racial segregation, Herbers witnessed a succession of landmark Civil Rights uprisings that rocked the country, the world, and his own conscience.
Herbers (1923-2017), who covered the Civil Rights movement for more than a decade, has produced Deep South Dispatch: Memoir of a Civil Rights Journalist, a compelling story of national and historical significance.
Former New York Times correspondent John N
