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A conversation about Jesse Jackson
with Marshall Frady on Jul 5, 1996
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with Marshall Frady on Jul 5, 1996
Marshall Frady was born in Augusta, Georgia (1940) and educated at Furman University (B.A., 1963) and University of Iowa. He began his career in journalism as a correspondent at “Newsweek?s” Atlanta and Los Angeles bureaus. He later served as staff writer on the Atlanta bureau of “Saturday Evening Post” and as contributing editor, based in Atlanta, for “Harper’s” and “Life” . He eventually moved into television journalism as chief correspondent for “ABC News Close-up” and as correspondent for Nightline). He won an Emmy award for his television work in 1982.
He has also contributed articles to “Esquire”, “The New York Review of Books”, “The Atlantic Monthly”, “The New Yorker” and other periodicals. He has also written several books, including “Wallace” (1968), “Across a Darkling Plain: An American’s Passage Through the Middle East” (1971), “Billy Graham: A Parable of American Righteousness” (1979), “Southerners: A Journalist’s Odyssey” (1980), “Jesse: The Life and Pilgrimage of Jesse Jackson” (1996), and “Martin Luther King Jr.” (2002), a volume in the Penguin Lives series.
Source - http://www.reportingcivilrights.org/authors/bio.jsp?authorId=110
