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John Herbers (1923-2017) was an award-winning journalist for The New York Times for 25 years who covered the nation’s most significant events including the civil rights movement, the assassination of John F. Kennedy, Watergate, the presidency and resignation of Richard M. Nixon, the presidential campaign and assassination of Robert F. Kennedy, Congress and urban affairs. He was assistant national editor for the Times and the paper’s deputy bureau chief in Washington, D.C.
Herbers graduated from Emory University and was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University. In 2000, he was awarded the John Chancellor Award for Excellence in Journalism by Columbia University School of Journalism. He is the author of four books: The Lost Priority: What Happened to the Civil Rights Movement in America? (1970), The Black Dilemma (1973), No Thank You, Mr. President (1976), and The New Heartland: America's Flight Beyond the Suburbs and How It Is Changing Our Future (1986).
Born in the South during a time of racial segregation and entrenched intolerance to integration, Herbers spent more than a decade writing about landmark civil rights uprisings that opened his eyes, and those of the nation, to the injustices of the day.
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