Thursday, June 6, 2013 - 5:00pm
James J. Kilpatrick was a nationally known television
personality, journalist, and columnist whose conservative voice rang
out loudly and widely through the twentieth century. As editor of the
Richmond News Leader, writer for the National Review, debater in the
"Point/Counterpoint" portion of CBS's 60 Minutes, and supporter of
conservative political candidates like Barry Goldwater, Kilpatrick had
many platforms for his race-based brand of southern conservatism. In
James J. Kilpatrick: Salesman for Segregation, William Hustwit delivers a
comprehensive study of Kilpatrick's importance to the civil rights era
and explores how his protracted resistance to both desegregation and
egalitarianism culminated in an enduring form of conservatism that
revealed a nation's unease with racial change.
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