Download Jackson, 1964: And Other Dispatches from Fifty Years of Reporting on Race in America AudioBook Free
From best-selling author and beloved New Yorker copy writer Calvin Trillin, a deeply resonant, career-spanning collection of articles on race and racism, from the 1960s to the present. In the early '60s, Calvin Trillin received his start as a journalist covering the Civil Rights Movements in the South. Over the next five years of reporting, he often returned to moments of racial tension. Now, for the very first time, the best of Trillin's bits on race in America have been collected in one volume level. In the title article of Jackson, 1964, we experience Trillin's riveting coverage of the pathbreaking voter sign up drive known as the Mississippi Warmer summer months Task - coverage that includes an unforgettable airplane dialog between Martin Luther King, Jr., and a white man resting over the aisle. ("I'd like to be treasured by everyone," King says him, "but we can not always await love.") In the years that follow, Trillin rides combined with the National Guard models assigned to patrol dark-colored neighborhoods in Wilmington, Delaware; accounts on the situation of a dark-colored homeowner accused of manslaughter in the death of the white teenager in an overwhelmingly white Long Island suburb; and chronicles the amazing fortunes of the Zulu Community Aid & Pleasure Golf club, a dark-colored carnival krewe in New Orleans whose users parade on Mardi Gras in blackface. He takes on conditions that are as relevant today as they were when he published about them. Extreme sentencing is reviewed in a 1970 piece about a dark-colored militant in Houston providing 30 years in prison for offering one cannabis cigarette. The role of race in the utilization of deadly drive by police is outlined in a 1975 article about an African American shot by a white policeman in Seattle. Uniting all these bits are Trillin's unflinching eye and elegant prose. Jackson, 1964 can be an indispensable account of the half-century of race and racism in America, through the lens of a get good at journalist and copy writer who was there to keep see. Read by Robert Fass, with the introduction read by the author.
