Missing Pages: Black Journalists of Modern America: An Oral History
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| Rating | : | 4.91 (702 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0786719931 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 384 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-02-05 |
| Language | : | English |
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Bush, Vanessa Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved. Among the contributors: Ethel Payne, who, as a service-club hostess in Tokyo, chronicled the failure of General MacArthur to desegregate the armed services despite President Truman's orders; Max Robinson, who faced the vicissitudes of being the first black news anchor, under deadline pressure and nightly scrutiny of white viewers; Leon Dash, who engaged in discussions with guerrillas in Angola about issues of race in America; and Ed Bradley, who joined the venerable staff of 60 Minutes but maintained his own inimitable style. Terry, who died in 2003, her
Dimitrius M. Mcfadden said Dimitrius McFadden "a person intrested in journalism". Reading, "Missing Pages" by Wallace Terry started with my dad asking me two questions. His first question was. "Son, you want to be an athlete, how many black athletes can you name?" I named a bunch. "Ok. You also want to be a writer. How many black journalists can you name?" I was puzzled and embarrassed, because I'm a freshman in high school and I couldn't name one. My dad suggested I read "Missing Pages" The book is divided by chapters, with each chapter being a short story on a black journalist. While the book profiles several journalists including: Carl Rowan, Joel Dreyfus, Ben Holman, Tom Johnson, Karen Dewit, James Hicks, Will
He wrote for many publications, taught journalism at Howard University, and was the author of Bloods, a national bestseller about blacks in the Vietnam War. He is survived by his wife Janice, their three chldren—Tai, Lisa, and David—and two grandchildren.. Wallace Terry, born in Harlem in 1938, attended Brown University and the University of Chicago, and was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard. He worked as a reporte
An oral history of modern American journalism by trailblazing black journalists such as Ed Bradley, Max Robinson, and Karen Dewitt.