The Race Beat

The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation is a Pulitzer Prize-winning book written in 2006 by journalists Gene Roberts and Hank Klibanoff. The book is about the Civil Rights Movement in the United States, specifically about the role of newspapers and television. "Race Beat" refers to reporters whose beat reporting covered issues of race.[1]

The Race Beat
AuthorGene Roberts and Hank Klibanoff
GenreNon-fiction
PublisherKnopf
Publication date
October 31, 2006
Pages528
ISBN0-679-40381-7 (hardcover)
OCLC66393706

The book received the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for History.[2]

It was the necessary reading for the University Interscholastic League's Social Studies Competition in 2019.[3]

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