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Sto caricando le informazioni... Son of the rough South : an uncivil memoirdi Karl Fleming
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. The author was born in Newport News, VA but from age eight to seventeen, he lived at a rather stark church orphanage. Following a few years in the Navy and then a brief stint at Appalachian State Teachers College, Fleming dropped out to begin a career in journalism as a court and police reporter in Wilson, NC. He moved on to the Atlanta Constitution and joined Newsweek in 1960 as a correspondent. For the next five years, Fleming was in the thick of civil rights events covering James Meredith's enrollment at Ole Miss, Bull Connor and the marches and church bombing in Birmingham, Gov. George Wallace's school door stand in Tuscaloosa, AL, and the murders of three volunteer voters' rights workers in Philadelphia, MS. Listen to an interview of the author by Tavis Smiley, then at PBS ( http://www.pbs.org/kcet/tavissmiley/archive/200507/20050713.html Karl Fleming, July 13, 2005). In 1965 Fleming became the LA Bureau chief. While covering the 1966 Watts riot, he was severely beaten. This memoir gives his unique perspectives to a turbulent era. Learn more at the NPR Fresh Air program: Civil Rights Reporter Karl Fleming: 'Son of the Rough South' http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4760600 (lj) ( ) nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
Legendary civil rights reporter Karl Fleming was born in North Carolina's flattest, bleakest tobacco landscape. Raised in a Methodist orphanage during the Great Depression, he was isolated from much of the world around him until an early newspaper job introduced him to the era's brutal racial politics and a subsequent posting as Newsweek's lead civil rights reporter took him to the South's hotspots throughout the 1960s: James Meredith's enrollment at the University of Mississipi, the 1963 Birmingham church bombing, the assassination of Medgar Evers, the murders of three civil rights workers in Philadelphia, Mississippi, and more. On May 17, 1966, Fleming was beaten by black rioters on the streets of Los Angeles. Newsweek covered the incident in their next issue, and here's what they wrote: "That he was beaten by Negroes in the streets of Watts was a cruel irony. Fleming had covered the landmark battles of the Negro revolt from Albany, Ga., to Oxford, Miss., to Birmingham, Ala., and numberless way stations whose names are now all but forgotten.... No journalist was more closely tuned into the Movement; once when a Newsweek Washington correspondent asked the Justice Department to name some Dixie hot spots, the Justice man replied, 'Ask Fleming. That's what we do.'" In Son of the Rough South, Fleming has delivered a stunning, revealing memoir of all the worlds he knew, black, white, violent, and cloistered -- and a deeply moving read for anyone interested in any rough South. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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