The Changing South of Gene Patterson: Journalism and Civil Rights, 1960-1968 (Southern Dissent) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0813025745 ISBN 13: 9780813025742

Publisher: University Press of Florida, 2002

Synopsis

The Changing South of Gene Patterson celebrates the work of one of America's most influential journalists who wrote in a time and place of dramatic social and political upheaval. The editor of the Atlanta Constitution from 1960 through 1968, Patterson wrote directly to his fellow white southerners every day, working to persuade them to change their ways. His words were so inspirational that he was asked by Walter Cronkite to read his most famous column, about the Birmingham church bombing, live on the CBS Evening News. This volume includes over 120 of Patterson's best columns of probing commentary on the crucial issues of race, civil rights, social justice, and desegregation; some reveal examples of political and moral leadership, drawn from every corner of southern culture. Introductory essays, framing Patterson's work as journalism and literature, place it in the context of southern history and the evolution of white southern liberalism. Patterson himself contributes a new essay, reflecting on his life, work, and times. At a time when protest, violence, and confrontation defined race relations and even the South itself, Patterson's wise, sane, humorous, passionate column appeared

About this title

About the Author:

Roy Peter Clark is a senior scholar at The Poynter Institute, a school for journalists in St. Petersburg, Florida.

Raymond Arsenault, winner of the Florida Humanities Council 2019 Florida Lifetime Achievement Award for Writing, is the John Hope Franklin Professor of Southern History and director of the University Honors College at the University of South Florida, St. Petersburg.

Review:

"Proves that journalism at its best can endure as literature." -- Robert Schmuhl, University of Notre Dame

About this edition

• Publisher: University Press of Florida
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0813025745
• ISBN 13: 9780813025742
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 336
• Editor: Clark Roy Peter, Arsenault Raymond