Missing Pages True Stories and Great Adventures of America's Black Journalists

Before his death, acclaimed correspondent and author Wallace Terry conducted interviews with nineteen pioneering black journalists. The result is this book: an oral history of World War II, presidential administrations from Eisenhower through Reagan, the Civil Rights Movement, the Black Muslims, the Black Panthers, assassinations, the Vietnam War, prison riots, the Chicago Seven Trial, and civil wars in Africa from the perspective of the black newsmen and -women who covered them. These are the first wave of black journalists to rise to prominent positions in the white-dominated media. With incredible candor, not only do they discuss the racism they encountered within the worlds of TV, print, and radio, but also the triumphs and trials of being a journalist, regardless of color. Missing Pages puts the black journalistic experience of the second half of the twentieth century in historical, cultural, and political perspective. Contributors include: Carl Rowan, Ed Bradley, Ethel Payne, Bernard Shaw, Max Robinson, Barbara Reynolds, Carole Simpson, Wallace Terry, Joel Dreyfus, Ben Holman, John Q. Jordan, Tom Johnson, Karen DeWitt, James Hicks, William Raspberry, Leon Dash, C. Sumner "Chuck" Stone, Austin Scott, Earl Caldwell, and Henry M. "Hank" Brown.Terry, Wallace is the author of 'Missing Pages True Stories and Great Adventures of America's Black Journalists', published 2007 under ISBN 9780786719938 and ISBN 0786719931.