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Scoop : the evolution of a southern reporter /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Nelson, Jack, 1929-2009
Other Authors: Matusow, Barbara
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2013.
Subjects:
Nelson, Jack, > 1929-2009.
Civil rights > Southern States > History > 20th century.
Journalists > United States > Biography.
Southern States > Race relations.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of 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.