The Race Beat
2006 book by Gene Roberts and Hank Klibanoff / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation is a 2006 nonfiction book 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. The Race Beat refers to reporters whose beat reporting covered issues of race.[1]
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Author | Gene Roberts and Hank Klibanoff |
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Genre | Non-fiction |
Publisher | Knopf |
Publication date | October 31, 2006 |
Pages | 528 |
ISBN | 0-679-40381-7 (hardcover) |
OCLC | 66393706 |
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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]