We Believed We Were Immortal: Twelve Reporters Who Covered the 1962 Integration Crisis at Ole Miss

Conflicts between Governor Ross Robert Barnett, President John F. Kennedy, and state and federal courts were further aggravated by the organization and presence of white citizens' councils, students, the National Guard, journalists, photographers, federal authorities, and politicians. Wickham i...

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Published inJournal of Southern History Vol. 84; no. 4; pp. 1058 - 1060
Main Author Thevenin, Rose C
Format Book Review
LanguageEnglish
Published Houston Southern Historical Association 01.11.2018
Subjects
African Americans
Biographies
Civil rights
College students
Journalism
Journalists
Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (1917-1963)
Race
Reporters
Sex discrimination
Mississippi
Florida
France
Baltimore Maryland
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Summary:Conflicts between Governor Ross Robert Barnett, President John F. Kennedy, and state and federal courts were further aggravated by the organization and presence of white citizens' councils, students, the National Guard, journalists, photographers, federal authorities, and politicians. Wickham incorporates race and gender to examine that night at Ole Miss by including the accounts of white student editor Sidna Brower of the university student paper the Mississippian and African American reporters Dorothy Butler Gilliam of the Washington Post and Moses Newson of the Baltimore AfroAmerican. Mainstream newspapers seldom hired black reporters, but as the civil rights movement became more violent, more African American journalists were hired, even as the black press experienced a decline in circulation.
ISSN:0022-4642
2325-6893
DOI:10.1353/soh.2018.0318