The Race Beat
The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation is a Pulitzer Prize-winning book written in 2006 by journalists Gene Roberts and Hank Klibanoff. The book is about the Civil Rights Movement in the United States, specifically about the role of newspapers and television. "Race Beat" refers to reporters whose beat reporting covered issues of race.[1]
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| Author | Gene Roberts and Hank Klibanoff |
|---|---|
| Genre | Non-fiction |
| Publisher | Knopf |
Publication date | October 31, 2006 |
| Pages | 528 |
| ISBN | 0-679-40381-7 (hardcover) |
| OCLC | 66393706 |
The book received the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for History.[2]
It was the necessary reading for the University Interscholastic League's Social Studies Competition in 2019.[3]
References
- Jonathan Yardley (November 6, 2006). "Two journalists recall the reporters who covered some of the nation's most hard-fought battles". The Washington Post. Retrieved on April 15, 2009.
- The Pulitzer Prizes. "The Pulitzer Prize Winners: History". Retrieved 12 April 2015.
- http://www.uiltexas.org/files/academics/Social_Studies_2018-19_Reading_List_Book_and_Supplamental_FINAL.pdf
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