In their Pulitzer Prize-winning book, The Race Beat, journalists Hank Klibanoff and Gene Roberts interviewed the journalists that covered the Civil Rights Movement to reveal how they responded (slowly at first) to the desegregation of the South. They also use private correspondence and unpublished articles to show how the media didn’t respond. The full picture captures one of the most exciting, controversial, and thrilling times in American history through the eyes of the reporters who were there. To hear a bit about this book from one of the authors, Hank Klibanoff, come to the Birmingham Civil Rights Insitute, Wednesday, April 23.

The Alabama native and managing editor of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution will be signing books at 5:30 p.m. and speaking at 6 p.m.

For more information or to RSVP call 948-5429, or e-mail bobbijogrady@yahoo.com, or visit www.alabamabooksmith.com.

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