LONG WALK TO FREEDOM ; from the Days of Slavery to the Beating of Rodney King by LA Police, a New Book Presents an Extraordinary Photographic History of the Fight for Civil Rights by African-Americans. Mike Phillips Confronts 150 Years of Heroes and Villains

Bateman, Michael, The Independent on Sunday (London, England)

For anyone growing up within the reach of newspapers or television during the middle of the 20th century, the struggle for African-American civil rights marked a defining moment. As both a historical and a media event it was something new. There were, of course, atrocities and human tragedies going on all over the world at the time, but the turmoil in central Africa, the brutality of life in southern Africa or Stalin's empire were inaccessible and so more or less invisible. For the news media, however, the civil- rights struggle was there, on their doorsteps. It was the moment when the press began to perfect a style and a method of telling stories that would be a precursor to …

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Publication information: Article title: LONG WALK TO FREEDOM ; from the Days of Slavery to the Beating of Rodney King by LA Police, a New Book Presents an Extraordinary Photographic History of the Fight for Civil Rights by African-Americans. Mike Phillips Confronts 150 Years of Heroes and Villains. Contributors: Bateman, Michael - Author. Newspaper title: The Independent on Sunday (London, England). Publication date: October 2, 2002. Page number: 18,19,20,21,22. © 2009 The Independent on Sunday. Provided by ProQuest LLC. All Rights Reserved.

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