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A Trove of Courageous Coverage. (Books).(Book Review) (book review)

By Stepp, Carl Sessions
Publication: American Journalism Review
Date: Saturday, March 1 2003

Reporting Civil Rights

The Library of America

Part One, 996 pages

Part Two, 986 pages

$40 per volume

Honesty first: I have not read every word on every one of these 1,982 pages. But I have read more than I expected to, because this collection is a treasure, filled with eloquent, moving, often courageous coverage of a momentous era.

Much of the material presented here is classic journalism, and some of it, such as Martin Luther King Jr.'s "Letter from Birmingham Jail," is literature. Dipping in almost anywhere wil

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