The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation

High Museum

The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation

June 12, 2008, 7:00 PM

The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation

Location: Hill Auditorium, High Museum of Art

Discussion & Book-Signing

Join Hank Klibanoff, a managing editor at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution; Doris Derby, photographer, educator, and Civil Rights activist; and Brett Gadsden, Assistant Professor of African American Studies at Emory University as they discuss how the nation’s press came to recognize the importance of the civil rights struggle and turn it into the most significant domestic news event of the twentieth century.

This lecture is free and seating is limited. Tickets are available through the Woodruff Arts Center Box Office at 404-733-5000 and online at www.high.org. Tickets to the Museum are sold separately.

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