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Deep South Dispatch: Memoir of a Civil Rights Journalist (Willie Morris Books in Memoir and Biography) Kindle Edition

by John N. Herbers (Author), Gene Roberts (Foreword, Contributor), Anne Farris Rosen (Contributor) Format: Kindle Edition

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Former New York Times correspondent John N. 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. 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's retrospective is a timely and critical illumination on America's current racial dilemmas and ongoing quest for justice.

Herbers's reporting began in 1951, when he covered the brutal execution of Willie McGee, 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. With immediacy and first-hand detail, Herbers describes the assassination of John F. 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. Augustine, Florida, and Selma, Alabama, that led to passage of national civil rights legislation.

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. 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.

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"Herbers, who died in 2017, delivers a gripping and painfully vivid account of the mid-20th-century South and the racial violence that many whites simply did not want to be told about in the pages of the newspaper or hear of on radio and television. But eventually, and thanks in part to activists and reporters such as Herbers, whites in the South and beyond could not turn away." -New York Times Book Review

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John N. Herbers (1923-2017) worked for more than a decade at United Press International and was a national reporter for the New York Times for twenty-five years covering civil rights, national politics, the White House, Congress, urban affairs, Watergate, and the administrations of six presidents. Author of four books, two on civil rights and No Thank You, Mr. President and The New Heartland, he received numerous awards, including the John Chancellor Award for Excellence in Journalism. Anne Farris Rosen is the daughter of John Herbers. An award-winning freelance journalist and adjunct professor at the University of Maryland's Philip Merrill College of Journalism, she has worked for the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Pew Research Center.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ University Press of Mississippi (April 12, 2018)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ April 12, 2018
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 5048 KB
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Print length ‏ : ‎ 270 pages
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John N. Herbers
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John Herbers (1923-2017) was an award-winning journalist for The New York Times for 25 years who covered the nation’s most significant events including the civil rights movement, the assassination of John F. Kennedy, Watergate, the presidency and resignation of Richard M. Nixon, the presidential campaign and assassination of Robert F. Kennedy, Congress and urban affairs. He was assistant national editor for the Times and the paper’s deputy bureau chief in Washington, D.C.
Herbers graduated from Emory University and was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University. In 2000, he was awarded the John Chancellor Award for Excellence in Journalism by Columbia University School of Journalism. He is the author of four books: The Lost Priority: What Happened to the Civil Rights Movement in America? (1970), The Black Dilemma (1973), No Thank You, Mr. President (1976), and The New Heartland: America's Flight Beyond the Suburbs and How It Is Changing Our Future (1986).
Born in the South during a time of racial segregation and entrenched intolerance to integration, Herbers spent more than a decade writing about landmark civil rights uprisings that opened his eyes, and those of the nation, to the injustices of the day.
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Anne Farris Rosen
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Anne Farris Rosen is a Washington, D.C.-based journalist specializing in coverage of politics, government, legal affairs and social issues at the national and international level. She has worked for The New York Times, The Washington Post, Newhouse News Service, and newspapers in Arkansas, Missouri, and North Carolina. She wrote about the intersection of religion and government at The Pew Research Center and the Rockefeller Institute of Government.
At the international level, she was an off-camera reporter for foreign-based television documentaries about Kosovo, Ireland, and Afghanistan. She has won numerous awards for her reporting on homelessness, teen pregnancy, judicial nepotism, and fraud by state officials. She is the daughter of John Herbers and teaches at the University of Maryland Philip Merrill College of Journalism.
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The Professor

"Deep South Dispatch" is a revelation - certainly for those ...

Reviewed in the United States on July 24, 2018

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"Deep South Dispatch" is a revelation - certainly for those too young to have lived through the time, but also for the rest of us who imagine we understand this chapter in American history.

John Herbers guides the reader through the southern cities, small towns, and countrysides where the racial divide played out in the 1950's and 1960's. His observations provide the vivid detail you expect when reading powerful journalism. But in this telling ... there is so much more. Herbers was a son of the South. He knew the people; he was raised in the culture. He lifts the curtain on his struggles to separate journalism and his own history.

Ultimately, "Deep South Dispatch" is an intensely personal journey and a must-read for all who care about our country and our shared history.

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Charles Booker

From our country's most passionate internal drama: a poignant memoir from an insider to it all ...

Reviewed in the United States on June 12, 2018

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With winsome humility and touches of humor, John Herbers traces his journey from Memphis and Mississippi roots to the whirlwind of the '60s South he covered for the country's foremost daily. From Emmett Till to the Freedom Summer to Bloody Sunday, Herbers' first-hand, son-of-the-South coverage of the colorful cast of characters is both wistful and riveting. We read of a man with deep moral convictions who struggles to remain objective 'midst the maelstrom of injustice and the confusion and tragedy all around -- all while rearing four daughters in the chaos. A delightful romp!

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Dchanin

Riveting, First Hand Account of Civil Rights Era History

Reviewed in the United States on November 23, 2019

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Hebers witnessed and wrote about major events in the 1950s-60s struggle to overcome Jim Crow laws and practices in the south. His recounting of the Emmit Till case, the Freedom Summer of 1964, the March from Selma to Montgomery and other milestone events from this era is told with a journalist’s eye for a storyline and peppered with details that could only be known by someone who was there.

Reviewed in the United States on December 21, 2020

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An outstanding memoir of a civil rights journalist who saw first hand the changes brought on by the non-violence movement and leaders. An important book to read for those growing up in the South in the 1950’s and 1960’s, as well as all Americans.

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Sadie Bridger

This Guy Was the Real Deal

Reviewed in the United States on June 6, 2019

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John was my mentor as a newspaper reporter, and I couldn’t have gotten a better one. His qualities of caring, humanity, warmth and the desire for a gentle justice permeate this book - and I can tell you that, unlike with so many other people, he didn’t just mouth these qualities. He lived them.

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David R. Anderson

On Jim Crow's Murderous Trail

Reviewed in the United States on June 18, 2018

John N. Herbers (1924-2017), became one of the very few civil rights era journalists who was born and bred in the deep south (Mississippi). He didn’t set out to set the world right about the horrors practiced on blacks by his fellow southerners, but covering the gruesome murder of Emmett Till, a 14-year old black boy who had been wrongly accused of making an improper advance to a white woman, and the jury’s 67-minute deliberation freeing the clearly guilty white defendants, converted him. The show trial’s predictable result convinced him that his “long indifference to southern suppression of blacks was as displaced as the motives of those who enforced the suppression.”

Convinced by his daughter, Anne Farris Rosen, who helped him write “Deep South Dispatch”, that his story needed to be told, he undertook the task and completed the manuscript last year just weeks before he died. His highly regarded reporting for UPI in the Till case provided national recognition and esteem for his thorough and balanced coverage. It led to a Nieman Fellowship at Harvard and subsequently to the offer from the New York Times to join Claude Sitton in the paper’s Atlanta bureau with the specific goal of covering civil rights. The Times wanted a reporter with a home- grown understanding of the deep south. Herbers was their man.

The book traces his coverage of the efforts of Martin Luther King Jr. and the other players in the efforts to dismantle segregation and provide equality to black Americans. The Jim Crow south dug in its heels, resorting to murder, cross burnings, intimidation by the police and the business community. Herbers didn’t miss the fine points. He knew who to ask, where to look, and the value of persistence. His work takes Herbers back across the civil rights landscape from Money, Mississippi (where Till was lynched), to Selma, via Bombingham (Birmingham), Little Rock, Natchez, St. Augustine and points beyond.

The history of the struggles for civil rights has been written from the perspectives of all the players. Among the values of Herbers’ account is the light it shines on the impact of impartial reporting, particularly at the hands of one who won’t stop asking the hard questions until he gets the answers that tell the whole story.

Endnote. If we are ever to live up to our constitutional guarantees of equal rights for blacks and other minorities, it means convincing those for whom white privilege is a sacred concomitant of being an America to reconsider. Herbers did. His book should help all of us reach for the same result.

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Personal Civil Rights History

Reviewed in the United States on October 10, 2018

The author was encouraged by his daughter to write his memoirs of his time covering the Civil Rights Movement in the South and we should be grateful since this is a wonderful read. The author was born and raised in the South and was present for most of the important events in the Civil Rights Movement beginning with Emmett Till. The book also includes his personal observations and thoughts while covering the stories. The author really gives you a sense of place and time. This book is not easy read but it is an important one.

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Lisa

Outstanding memoir of an incredible journalist

Reviewed in the United States on October 20, 2018

Deep South Dispatch: Memoir of a Civil Rights Journalist is an amazing account of the life and - primarily - times of journalist John Herbers. Having lived through the era(s) described, I found myself recalling my own reactions, and often stopping to look up more information, or to learn about some of the events that I didn't recall. John Herbers broke so much ground in his reporting; Anne Herbers leaves us realising how much farther we need to go to overcome prejudices.

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