The Race Beat

The Race Beat  
Author(s) Gene Roberts and Hank Klibanoff
Genre(s) Non-fiction
Publisher Knopf
Publication date October 31, 2006
Pages 528
ISBN ISBN 0679403817 (hardcover)
OCLC Number 66393706

The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation is a Pulitzer Prize-winning book written in 2006 by journalists Gene Roberts and Hank Klibanoff. The book is about the African-American Civil Rights Movement in the United States, specifically about the role of newspapers and television. "Race Beat" refers to reporters whose beat reporting covered issues of race.[1]

In 2007, The Race Beat received the Pulitzer Prize for History.

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