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2006 book by Gene Roberts and Hank Klibanoff
The Race Beat
AuthorGene Roberts and Hank Klibanoff
GenreNon-fiction
PublisherKnopf
Publication dateOctober 31, 2006
Pages528
ISBN0-679-40381-7 (hardcover)
OCLC66393706

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.

The book received the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for History.

It was the necessary reading for the University Interscholastic League's Social Studies Competition in 2019.

References

  1. Jonathan Yardley (November 6, 2006). "Two journalists recall the reporters who covered some of the nation's most hard-fought battles". The Washington Post. Retrieved on April 15, 2009.
  2. "The Pulitzer Prize Winners: History". The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved 12 April 2015.
  3. http://www.uiltexas.org/files/academics/Social_Studies_2018-19_Reading_List_Book_and_Supplamental_FINAL.pdf
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