Tribune columnist Jack Colwell discusses civil rights coverage at The History Museum

Andrew S. Hughes, South Bend Tribune
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This front page from the July 3, 1964, South Bend Tribune shows a headline that illustrates the nation's divided opinions — including its first victory in court — regarding the Civil Rights Act of 1964 after it was enacted the day before. Tribune columnist Jack Colwell will talk about how national and local media covered the civil rights movement in the 1960s during a lecture May 19, 2024, at The History Museum in South Bend.

SOUTH BEND — The History Museum presents a lecture by Tribune columnist Jack Colwell at 2 p.m. May 19 at 897 Thomas St.

Newspapers, magazines, television, and radio played an important role in covering civil rights in the 1950s and 1960s, and as a Tribune reporter in the 1960s, Colwell wrote about civil rights issues, local and national.

In “Media Coverage of Civil Rights, Shameful to Heroic,” he will discuss long-time faults of the news media, including locally, and how news coverage then took down some of the most deplorable practices of discrimination.

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Before and after the lecture, attendees may tour the exhibit “Undesign the Red Line” and visit the Worker’s Home, now interpreted as a 1950s African American residence.

Jack Colwell
Jack Colwell

Reservations are recommended.

Admission is $5; $3 for members.

For more information, call 574-235-9664 or visit historymuseumsb.org.

This article originally appeared on South Bend Tribune: Civil rights news coverage topic of talk by Tribune columnist