- Title Pages
- Praise for Shocking the Conscience
- Epigraph
- Introduction
-
1 The Sleeping Giant -
2 “Time Is Running Out” -
3 The Rally Ends; The Killing Begins -
4 Born to Dream -
5 “Let Them See What I’ve Seen” -
6 The Trial -
7 “The Little Magazine that Could” Comes to Washington -
8 “A Communist Under Every Bed” -
9 Ike’s First Term -
10 The Battle of Little Rock -
11 Eisenhower Redux -
12 Baltimore, My Baltimore -
13 A Tale of two Campaigns -
14 A New Day Dawning -
15 The Freedom Rides -
16 No Ordinary Football Game -
17 Camelot, The Final Act -
18 A Southern President -
19 “All the Way with LBJ” -
20 Fighting On -
21 A Familiar Face -
22 The End of the Beginning - Acknowledgments
- Selected Bibliography
- Index
A Tale of two Campaigns
A Tale of two Campaigns
- Chapter:
- (p.162) 13 A Tale of two Campaigns
- Source:
- Shocking the Conscience
- Author(s):
Simeon Booker
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
The 1960 election year marked Ebony’s fifteenth anniversary issue. The magazine had grown to 172 pages, printed more than 800,000 copies, and read by about four million people in some 30 countries such as France, Germany, and Japan. In this chapter, the author reflects on his coverage of the 1960 presidential election that pitted Richard Nixon against John F. Kennedy and in which blacks and civil rights figured prominently.
Keywords: blacks, civil rights, Ebony, Jet, presidential election, Richard Nixon, John F. Kennedy
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- Title Pages
- Praise for Shocking the Conscience
- Epigraph
- Introduction
-
1 The Sleeping Giant -
2 “Time Is Running Out” -
3 The Rally Ends; The Killing Begins -
4 Born to Dream -
5 “Let Them See What I’ve Seen” -
6 The Trial -
7 “The Little Magazine that Could” Comes to Washington -
8 “A Communist Under Every Bed” -
9 Ike’s First Term -
10 The Battle of Little Rock -
11 Eisenhower Redux -
12 Baltimore, My Baltimore -
13 A Tale of two Campaigns -
14 A New Day Dawning -
15 The Freedom Rides -
16 No Ordinary Football Game -
17 Camelot, The Final Act -
18 A Southern President -
19 “All the Way with LBJ” -
20 Fighting On -
21 A Familiar Face -
22 The End of the Beginning - Acknowledgments
- Selected Bibliography
- Index
