Ethel Payne: Pioneering Journalist (Chronicling Greatness - Pioneers)

By Adam P. Kennedy

PREFACEEthel Payne likes to say that she had a box seat on history. But that's just the half of it -- she was onstage too. Fearless, and smart as a whip, Ms. Payne made her way from segregated Chicago to post-war Japan, then turned herself into a journalist. She covered Eisenhower's White House and Mandela's South Africa. She made headlines ("Negro Woman Reporter Angers Ike"). She reported on history-making events, like the first post-colonial conference of African and Asian nations, that most white reporters feared to touch. In this moving interview, Adam Kennedy lets us hear her at ease, unbound by newspaper conventions. It's a stirring experience. She's wise, she's shrewd, she's one of a kind. We will not see her like again.-Margo Jefferson is a Pulitzer Prize-winning critic, who has written for The New York Times, O, The Oprah Magazine, Bookforum, Newsweek and other publications. Her book, On Michael Jackson was published in 2006.She lives in New York City and teaches writing at Columbia University and Eugene Lang College, The New School.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1492294160
• ISBN13: 9781492294160
• Release Date: August 2013
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 56 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.1" x 6.0"