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With All Deliberate Speed: The AP in Little Rock
On view at the Clinton School will be a manuscript exhibit, With All Deliberate Speed: The AP in Little Rock, which will include editorial correspondence, wire copy and photographs drawn from the recently established AP Corporate Archives, which document AP's efforts to cover t he crisis beginning in the summer of 1957. The exhibit will launch on Sept. 12 with a panel discussion at the school entitled Covering Little Rock, featuring former New York Times managing editor and professor of journalism at the University of Maryland Gene Roberts, co-author of the recently published book The Race Beat, a history of the press during the Civil Rights Movement, which won a Pulitzer Prize in 2007.
Covering Little Rock, a panel discussion and launch of With All Deliberate Speed: the AP in Little Rock, an exhibit drawn from the Associated Press Corporate Archives in New York
Wednesday, September 12, 2007 at 6:00 p.m. (Sturgis Hall) *Book signing to follow
The Associated Press will unveil its Central High 1957 archival exhibit at the Clinton School with a panel discussion moderated by former Arkansas Gazette reporter Roy Reed, author of Faubus: The Life and Times of an American Prodigal with panelists Gene Roberts, co-author of the Pulitzer prize-winning Race Beat (2007) and Professor of Journalism at the University of Maryland; David R. Davies, dean of the University of Southern Mississippi Honors College and author of The Press and Race: Mississippi Journalists Confront the Movement; Hoyt Purvis, University of Arkansas journalism professor and former press secretary to Sen. Bill Fulbright; and Kathryn Johnson, former AP civil rights reporter who covered the movement throughout the South from her base at the Atlanta bureau.
Events are FREE and open to the public unless otherwise indicated below. To reserve seats, email publicprograms@clintonschool.uasys.edu, or call 501-683-5239.
This event was posted July 31, 2007 and last updated Feb. 5, 2009
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