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'Missing Pages' .. Pioneering Black Journalists of Modern America

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Pioneering black journalists tell of early days in history
Missing Pages Edited by Wallace Terry, Carroll and Graf, 375 pp., $16.95

Not so long ago, the American media carried the battle for a racially integrated South onto the front page and into America's living rooms.

Still, newspapers, television and radio in the North and South often were no more open to blacks in the 1950s than a whites-only Southern diner, according to "Missing Pages: Black Journalists of Modern America, An Oral History."

With few exceptions, newsrooms and broadcast studios were resolutely white and male, and determined to stay that way. Max Robinson's television boss in Virginia refused to show his face while he read the news in 1959. He later became the first black anchorman at ABC.

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