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Shocking the conscience, a reporter's account of the civil rights movement, Simeon Booker with Carol McCabe Booker

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-322) and index

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Shocking the conscience

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Simeon Booker with Carol McCabe Booker

a reporter's account of the civil rights movement

Within a few years of its first issue in 1951, Jet, a pocket-size magazine, became the "bible" for news of the civil rights movement. It was said, only half-jokingly, "If it wasn't in Jet, it didn't happen." Writing for the magazine and its glossy, big sister "Ebony," for fifty-three years, longer than any other journalist, Washington bureau chief Simeon Booker was on the front lines of virtually every major event of the revolution that transformed America. His coverage of Emmett Till's death lit a fire that would galvanize the movement, while a succession of U.S. presidents wished it would go away. This is the story of the century that changed everything about journalism, politics, and more in America, as only Simeon Booker, the dean of the black press, could tell it

The sleeping giant -- "Time is running out" -- The rally ends; the killing begins -- Born to dream --"Let them see what I've seen" -- The trial -- "The little magazine that could" comes to Washington -- "A communist under every bed" -- Ike's first term -- The battle of Little Rock -- Eisenhower Redux -- Baltimore, my Baltimore -- A tale of two campaigns -- A new day dawning -- The freedom rides -- No ordinary football game -- Camelot, the final act -- A Southern president -- "All the way with LBJ" -- Fighting on -- A familiar face -- The end of the beginning