Speaking of Books: Deep South Dispatch: Memoir of a Civil Rights Journalist

Anne Farris Rosen, adjunct professor at Philip Merrill College of Journalism, has been a journalist since 1980, specializing in coverage of politics, government, legal affairs and social issues at the international, national and local levels. Based in Washington, D.C., she worked for The New York Times, The Washington Post and Pew Research Center, and is co-author of Deep South Dispatch: Memoir of a Civil Rights Journalist.

In collaboration with her father, John N. Herbers, a former New York Times reporter, who covered the civil rights movement for more than a decade, Deep South Dispatch: Memoir of a Civil Rights Journalist is an historic retrospective that resonates with relevance and immediacy as America struggles with racial issues today.