Jackson 1964:
And Other Dispatches from Fifty Years of Reporting on Race
in America
Calvin Trillin
Random House
Calvin Trillin, a vetted writer for The New Yorker, has spent the last half century exposing the ugly side of America’s racial struggles.
His latest book compiles his work, extending civil rights issues beyond the Deep South
and spreads it out across the country, oftentimes holding a mirror to the ugly and
battered soul of America's racial tensions.
Brimming with tension
and tenacity his reports span the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s to the
voter suppression and race riots of the last few decades they read as a stoic
reminder of how the headlines of today are steeped in the issues of the last half-century.
Culled from articles,
essays, poems and commentaries and collected here in one volume, his work illustrates just how far we’ve come, while simultaneously showing us that there is so much
more to do.
“Jackson 1964” is
steeped in history and teaches readers valuable lessons about journalism under
pressure and how any one person can make a difference in fighting for freedom.
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