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Missing Pages: Black Journalists of Modern America An Oral History

by Wallace Terry

Before his death, Terry conducted taped interviews with 19 pioneering black journalists. The result is this oral history stretching from WW2, through the Reagan Pres., incl. the Civil Rights Movement; the Black Muslims and Black Panthers; the Vietnam War; prison riots; the Chicago Seven Trial; and Civil Wars in Africa. It is told from the perspective of the black men and women who covered the stories. Contributors include: Carl Rowan, Ed Bradley, Ethel Payne, Bernard Shaw, Max Robinson, Barbara Reynolds, Carole Simpson, Wallace Terry, Joel Dreyfus, Ben Holman, John Q. Jordan, Tom Johnson, Karen Dewitt, James Hicks, William Raspberry, Leon Dash, C. Sumner ¿Chuck¿ Stone, Austin Scott, Earl Caldwell, and Henry M. ¿Hank Brown.¿

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