L-R: Bryant, Jones, CAU Prof. Reggie Mitchell, Ragolsky and Nero in Atlanta.
Reporting on the American South
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Spring Semester, 2002
UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism
A year ago officials in Georgia voted to redesign the state flag, removing controversial symbols of the old Confederacy from it. In response, white leaders in a defiant Georgia town called Trenton this spring took steps to restore the stars and bars as the city's official emblem.
In April, a small group of students from Berkeley's School of Journalism traveled to northwest Georgia to report on this and other issues. They also visited with counterparts in the Journalism and Media program at historically-black Clark-Atlanta University. Below are a few letters the students filed about their reporting experiences in the South.
Anger and Amazement: A Black
Reporter in Small Town Dixie
by Turaya Bryant
The Old South in Mind and Spirit:
At Home With a Son of the Confederacy
by Hadas Ragolsky
A New Day Amid Old Struggles in
Georgia
by Kelli Nero
The Soulful World of Debb Moore,
Black Radio Pioneer
by Rachelle A. Jones
Course Description
L-R: Bryant, Jones, CAU Prof. Reggie Mitchell, Ragolsky and Nero in Atlanta.
Thanks to Michele Rabin and Clark-Atlanta University Prof. Reggie Mitchell for their support of the Berkeley-CAU exchange.
Contact: Prof. Neil Henry