#jackson 1964

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Book cover for Random House Trade Paperbacks  |  Art Director: Robbin Schiff  |  Designer: Allison Warner  |  Artwork: Romare Bearden   |  Published 2017

[powells]

Jackson 1964 by Calvin Trillin

“Jackson, 1964 is an indispensable account of a half-century of race and racism in America through the lens of a master journalist and writer who was there to bear witness.”

[universitybookstore]

“In the early sixties, the notion that racism was not acceptable even in certain regions or certain clubs or certain circumstances—the notion that it could not be treated with moderation—was a notion largely confined to black people.”  -- from Calvin Trillin’s new book from Random House, Jackson, 1964 And Other Dispatches from Fifty Years of Reporting on Race in America.

[universitybookstore]

The naked statement—a black man has been killed by a white policeman—is such a fearsome divider of the races that the people who preside over a city immediately try to cover it with details.

Calvin Trillin, from Jackson, 1964 And Other Dispatches from Fifty Years of Reporting on Race in America