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Dorothy Butler Gilliam - Trailblazer: A Pioneering Journalist’s Fight to Make the Media Look More Like America

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Dorothy Butler Gilliam, whose 50-year-career as a journalist put her in the forefront of the fight for social justice, offers a comprehensive view of racial relations and the media in the U.S.
Most civil rights victories are achieved behind the scenes, and this riveting, beautifully written memoir by a black first looks back with searing insight on the decades of struggle, friendship, courage, humor and savvy that secured what seems commonplace today-people of color working in mainstream media.
Told with a pioneering newspaper writers charm and skill, Gilliams full, fascinating life weaves her personal and professional experiences and media history into an engrossing tapestry. When we read about the death of her father and other formative events of her life, we glimpse the crippling impact of the segregated South before the civil rights movement when slaverys legacy still felt astonishingly close. We root for her as a wife, mother, and ambitious professional as she seizes once-in-a-lifetime opportunities never meant for a dark-skinned woman and builds a distinguished career. We gain a comprehensive view of how the media, especially newspapers, affected the movement for equal rights in this country. And in this humble, moving memoir, we see how an innovative and respected journalist and working mother helped provide opportunities for others.
With the distinct voice of one who has worked for and witnessed immense progress and overcome heart-wrenching setbacks, this book covers a wide swath of media history -- from the era of game-changing Negro newspapers like theChicago Defenderto the civil rights movement, feminism, and our current imperfect diversity. This timely memoir, which reflects the tradition of boot-strapping African American storytelling from the South, is a smart, contemporary consideration of the media.

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Copyright 2019 by Dorothy Butler Gilliam

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Gilliam, Dorothy Butler, author.

Title: Trailblazer : a pioneering journalists fight to make the media look more like America / Dorothy Butler Gilliam.

Description: First edition. | Nashville : Center Street, 2019. | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2018034533| ISBN 9781546083443 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781549171352 (audio download) | ISBN 9781546083436 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Gilliam, Dorothy Butler, 1936 | JournalistsUnited StatesBiography. | African American women journalistsBiography. | Women civil rights workersUnited StatesBiography.

Classification: LCC PN4874.G387 A3 2019 | DDC 070.92 [B]dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018034533

ISBN: 978-1-5460-8344-3 (hardcover), 978-1-5460-8343-6 (ebook)

E3-20181214-JV-PC-COR

Dorothy Gilliam lived a fascinating life and shares it with you in Trailblazer. She started out afraid to tell her editors that D.C. cabs wouldnt stop for hera problem for a reporter who needed to get to stories on time. She wound up a member of a group of minority columnists who regularly interviewed presidents.

Her book is a tribute to her generous spirit. No one made greater efforts to share her success with others, to teach school-age journalists, to open the ranks of newspaper management to minorities.

So many people in journalism are grateful that they met Dorothy. Heres your chance.

Donald Graham, former publisher of The Washington Post

Dorothy Gilliam is that most rare of revolutionaries, one who not only climbs the barricades, but lets down a ladder to help others up, too. In her more than six decades at the centers of journalism in New York and Washington, she has often been the first African American woman and the best of everything. Her memoir shows us that a few can be both, but no one should have to. We will have no democracy until each of us can be our unique individual selves.

Gloria Steinem, feminist activist and writer

Dorothy Gilliam is a great reporter, a pioneer for all women in the news business, and African American women particularly. Her story is about a time in American journalism where courage and brilliance were called for in the white-male bastions that were American newsrooms. Its a story that has been waiting a long time to be told.

Carl Bernstein, Pulitzer Prizewinning reporter of Watergate fame

Dorothy Butler Gilliams inspirational life story is the journey of a daughter of the South who became a pioneering black woman journalist, an influential voice in the pages of The Washington Post, a national leader of the movement to foster diversity in the news media, and a dedicated mentor of countless aspiring young journalists. It is also the story of her role in a remarkable era of growth and influence of a leading American newspaper now evolving in the digital age. And it is a welcome gift for colleagues and readers who have benefitted from her work and presence in our lives.

Leonard Downie Jr., former executive editor of The Washington Post, Weil Family Professor, Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communications

Dorothy Gilliam has contributed a rare and important history of the journey of a black reporter, who is also a woman, focusing on The Washington Post, but having implications for the entire industry, writ large. Such a book would have always been a great contribution to the canon, but it is even more relevant today as the industry, as well as the society grapples with diversity and the way forward. Dorothy Gilliam provides answers that give us a road map to successfully navigate that way forward.

Charlayne Hunter-Gault, award-winning journalist, and former foreign correspondent for National Public Radio and the Public Broadcasting Service

Dorothy Gilliam is a national treasure. Her groundbreaking career in journalism is a monument to triumph, inspiration, grace. She is admired by journalists of color everywherenot only because of her pioneering body of work but because she cared about us so much.

Kevin Merida, editor in chief of ESPNs The Undefeated and former managing editor of The Washington Post

For those in the forefront, those Firsts of black America, life was seldom a crystal stair to a glorious summit. Dorothy Butler Gilliams memoir of her life and times chronicles such an ever-upward climb, step by step.

Hers is the story of a woman ahead of her time, yet deeply involved in the critical issues of that time, and deeply concerned about younger ones in time yet to come.

She succeeded at one of the premier American newspapers, charting a path of determination, commitment, and inspiration for others to discover and appreciate, and to follow as well.

Milton Coleman, retired senior editor of The Washington Post

Powerful voice, inextinguishable brilliance, quiet strength, elegant beauty, visionary leader, honored journalist: Dorothy Gilliam. First African American female journalist at The Washington Post, Dorothy Gilliam is a trailblazer who still is having an impact on journalists and journalism.

Its my honor to know Dorothy, serve on the board of the Maynard Institute for Journalism Education, and be one of her many fans who credit Dorothy with being an early career role model.

Paula Madison, first executive vice president of diversity at NBC Universal, author

Dorothy Gilliam didnt just shatter racial and gender barriers at The Washington Post, she shattered the journalistic view that white objectivity was the only way of seeing the world. Gilliam pioneered a way of writing about African Americans that was accurate, balanced, and compassionateprinciples that had only applied to the coverage of whites before she arrived. The courage and intellectual rigor that it took for her to become the first African American woman journalist at

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