{"id":41507,"date":"2017-09-06T09:38:09","date_gmt":"2017-09-06T15:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=41507"},"modified":"2017-09-06T09:38:09","modified_gmt":"2017-09-06T15:38:09","slug":"kathleen-wickham-signing-we-believed-we-were-immortal-twelve-reporters-who-covered-the-1962-integration-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/kathleen-wickham-signing-we-believed-we-were-immortal-twelve-reporters-who-covered-the-1962-integration-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Kathleen Wickham Signing We Believed We Were Immortal: Twelve Reporters Who Covered the 1962 Integration Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"

On the 55th anniversary of the 1962 crisis at Ole Miss, author Kathleen Wickham<\/strong> traces the footsteps of twelve American journalists and examines the unsolved murder of Paul Guihard<\/strong>, a French reporter, the only journalist killed during the civil rights movement.<\/span><\/p>\n

In We Believed We Were Immortal: Twelve Reporters Who Covered the 1962 Integration Crisis at Ole Miss<\/em>, Wickham details the challenges faced by these journalists and how they managed to overcome beatings, snipers, and a rogue governor to file the reports which are included here.<\/span><\/p>\n

As James Meredith<\/strong> observes, the strength of the book is \u201cthe reporters Wickham chose to write about.\u201d Those reporters are Claude Sitton<\/strong> of The New York Times<\/em>; Sidna Brower<\/strong>, Daily Mississippian<\/em> student editor; Moses Newson<\/strong>, of The Baltimore Afro-American<\/strong>; CBS<\/strong> reporter Dan Rather<\/strong>; Richard Valeriani<\/strong> of NBC<\/strong>; Michael Dorman<\/strong> of Newsday<\/em>; freelance photographer Flip Schulke<\/strong>; Fred Powledge<\/strong> of the Atlanta Journal<\/em>\/Constitution<\/em>; Texas videographer Gordon Yoder<\/strong>; Dorothy Gilliam<\/strong> of The Washington Post<\/em>; and Neal Gregory<\/strong> of The Memphis Commercial Appeal<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Each of the twelve dealt with a different aspect of the riot: Gov. Ross Barnett<\/strong>\u2019s opposition to the federal court order to enroll Meredith at the University of Mississippi<\/strong>, the gathering storm as federal marshals arrived on campus to catcalls and cherry bombs, local churches calling for calm, the reaction of African Americans in Oxford<\/strong>, the Faulkner family\u2019s response, and\u2014a common thread throughout\u2014praise for fellow journalists who banded together for personal safety. \u201cHere are flesh-and-blood reporters,\u201d writes Jerry Mitchell of the Clarion-Ledger, \u201cwhose dispatches<\/span>
\nfrom the war-torn University of Mississippi campus remind us what real journalism looks like and why we need it now more than ever.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Kathleen Wickham will sign her new book at Off-Square Books September 12 at 5 pm.\u00a0<\/span>\"The<\/a><\/p>\n

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