Nov 04 - 05 2022
Deep South Dispatch: A Memoir of a Civil Rights Journalist

Deep South Dispatch: A Memoir of a Civil Rights Journalist

Presented by ACCORD Civil Rights Museum at ACCORD Civil Rights Museum

Anne Farris Rosen, award-winning Washington, DC-based journalist and co-author of Deep South Dispatch, and Claudia Slate, professor emerita of English at Florida Southern College, will speak about Deep South Dispatch at ACCORD Civil Rights Museum, 79 Bridge Street, St. Augustine, on Friday, November 4th at 6 PM, and on Saturday, November 5th at 11 AM.

In addition, the ACRM will be open Friday from 5-8:30 PM and Saturday, from 8:30 AM until 1:30 PM.

Rosen and Slate are the daughters of John Herbers, a former New York Times reporter who covered the civil rights movement for more than a decade. His memoir is a stunning and deeply personal account that includes vivid descriptions of Martin Luther King Jr.'s defiance of Jim Crow laws in St. Augustine that contributed to the passage of the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964.

Born in the South during a time of entrenched racial segregation, Herbers witnessed a succession of landmark civil rights uprisings that rocked the country, the world, and his own conscience. Herbers' retrospective is a timely and critical illumination of America's current racial dilemmas and ongoing quest for justice. In addition to St. Augustine, he reported on major benchmark events -- the Emmett Till murder trial, the Birmingham, Alabama church bombing, KKK cross burnings and rallies, the murder of civil rights workers in Philadelphia, and the march on Selma, Alabama.

ANNE FARRIS ROSEN is a freelance journalist specializing in coverage of politics, government, legal affairs, and social issues at the national and international levels. She has worked for the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Pew Research Center. She teaches race and media at the University of Maryland Philip Merrill College of Journalism.

CLAUDIA SLATE has taught, published articles, and edited books in the areas of African American Literature, Modern American Literature, and Southern Literature for more than 25 years.

JOHN N BERBERS (1923-2017) worked for more than a decade at United Press International and was a national reporter for the New York Times for 25 years covering civil rights, national politics, the White House, Congress, urban affairs, Watergate, and the administrations of six presidents. He is the author of four books, two on civil rights, and received numerous awards, including the John Chancellor Award for Excellence in journalism.

Admission Info

Free

Dates & Times

2022/11/04 - 2022/11/05

Location Info

ACCORD Civil Rights Museum

79 Bridge Street, St. Augustine, FL 32084