Midian, Marshall & Me - Softcover

Davis, Richard J.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1425136540 ISBN 13: 9781425136543

Publisher: Trafford Publishing, 2007

Synopsis

The book relates the history of Marshall, Texas, its role in the nation's civil rights movement, and the survival of a friendship between a white boy and a black boy during the turbulent years after Brown vs. Board of Education.

About this title

About the Author

A native of Marshall, Texas, Jerome Davis began a career in broadcasting at a local radio station. He was there to see first-hand the lunch counter sit-ins that brought Marshall into the civil rights movement. He went on to work as a television journalist, serving as a reporter in Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas at the time of John F. Kennedy's assassination. He chronicled the effects the Civil Rights Bill of 1964 on Dallas-Fort Worth. He later turned to public relations, directing communications for the Dallas-Fort Worth Airport as it landed its first planes. He also was responsible for media relations for a major electric utility. He is now retired and lives with Dee, his wife of 45 years, in Colleyville, Texas.

Edition details

• Publisher: Trafford Publishing
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1425136540
• ISBN 13: 9781425136543
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 130