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<p>From a gullible cub reporter with the <i>Daily Herald</i> in Biloxi and Gulfport, to the pugnacious Pulitzer Prize winner at the <i>Atlanta Constitution</i>, to the peerless beat reporter for the <i>Los Angeles Times</i> covering civil rights in the South, Jack Nelson (1929-2009) was dedicated to exposing injustice and corruption wherever he found it. Whether it was the gruesome conditions at a twelve-thousand-bed mental hospital in Georgia or the cruelties of Jim Crow inequity, Nelson proved himself to be one of those rare reporters whose work affected and improved thousands of lives.</p> <p>His memories about difficult circumstances, contentious people, and calamitous events provide a unique window into some of the most momentous periods in southern and U.S. history. Wherever he landed, Nelson found the corruption others missed or disregarded. He found it in lawless Biloxi; he found it in buttoned-up corporate Atlanta; he found it in the college town of Athens, Georgia. Nelson turned his investigations of illegal gambling, liquor sales, prostitution, shakedowns, and corrupt cops into such a trademark that honest mayors and military commanders called on him to expose miscreants

Author

Jack Nelson

Publisher

Jackson: University Press of Mississippi

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9781621030669

Subjects

Memoir, History, Biography