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A review by gregbrown
The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation by Gene Roberts, Hank Klibanoff
5.0
Pretty great! Roberts and Klibanoff use the journalists working the South as a through-line for telling the story of the Civil Rights Movement, and the book's narrative is clear and filled with plenty of insightful and compelling detail. Avoids most of the pitfalls that could happen to a book like this, though there is minimal coverage of events outside the South or more radical leaders like Malcolm X or Rustin.