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Trailblazer : a pioneering journalist's fight to make the media look more like America

Trailblazer : a pioneering journalist's fight to make the media look more like America

Gilliam, Dorothy Butler, 1936- author.
Book 2019

Dorothy Butler Gilliam, whose fifty-year-career as a journalist put her in the forefront of the fight for social justice, offers a comprehensive view of racial relations and the media in the US, covering a wide swath of media history--from the era of game-changing Negro newspapers like the Chicago Defender to the civil rights movement, feminism, and our current imperfect diversity.

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ISBN:
9781546083443
1546083448
Edition:
First edition
Description:
x, 351 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents:
Coming to The Washington Post, 1961
Assignment: Mississippi, 1962
Growing up a preacher's kid, 1936-1961
Being Mrs. Sam Gilliam, 1962-1982
Return to The Washington Post: the style years and founding the Institute for Journalism Education, 1972-1979
Voice for the voiceless: the column and National Association of Black Journalists years, 1979-1997
Last years at The Washington Post: is there anything else you wan to do? 1998-2003
Epilogue
LCCN:
2018034533
Control Number:
2664875
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