Scoop: The Evolution of a Southern Reporter

Contents

Contents ix Introduction —hank klibanoff 3 Chapter 1. A Taste of Injustice 7 Chapter 2. Birth of a Salesman 15 Chapter 3. Biloxi Boy 23 Chapter 4. “Scoop” 30 Chapter 5. Sin and Salt Water 37 Chapter 6. My So-Called Military Career 41 Chapter 7. Atlanta 52 Chapter 8. Back on the Vice Beat 56 Chapter 9. Little Rock 61 Chapter 10. A Snake Pit Called Milledgeville 69 Chapter 11. Dead Men Voting 73 Chapter 12. Sin in the Classic City 78 Chapter 13. Harvard Man 85 Chapter 14. The Murder of Lemuel Penn viii contents 90 Chapter 15. Making the Break 94 Chapter 16. Selma 103 Chapter 17. Jim Crow Justice 111 Chapter 18. The Meanest Town in the South 119 Chapter 19. Deacons for Defense and Justice 122 Chapter 20. The Orangeburg Massacre 129 Chapter 21. Travels with George 138 Chapter 22. Martin Luther King Jr.: From Gee’s Bend to Memphis 146 Chapter 23. Ambush in Meridian 156 Chapter 24. Number One on J. Edgar Hoover’s Shit List 167 Editor’s Note —barbara matuso 171 Epilogue: The Washington Years —richard t. cooper 181 Index ...