{"product_id":"deep-south-dispatch-9781496828194","title":"Deep South Dispatch","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eFormer 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHerbers'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 Birmin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNow it's a country mile from patisserie and threads of saffron, but my colleague Jonathan Martin on the politics desk got me reading \u003ci\u003eDeep South Dispatch\u003c\/i\u003e, a memoir by the civil rights reporter John N. Herbers, who died in 2017. Maybe you should, too. They don’t make journalists like John Herbers anymore. In fact, I doubt they make people like John Herbers anymore. . . . Wonderful and important memoir, his groundbreaking coverage of the civil rights movement. . . . John Norton Herbers may not have become another William Faulkner, but he did become a very good writer, as this historically valuable book attests over and over again.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University Press of Mississippi","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49372282913111,"sku":"9781496828194","price":26.55,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781496828194.jpg?v=1730162628","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/deep-south-dispatch-9781496828194","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}