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01 Crime Reporting, Sit-in Protests, Newspaper Competition Fisk Jubilee Quartet April 2018 Issue

Nashville Retrospect by Allen Forkum

Apr 3, 201837:45Education

The Stringbean killings. The Marcia Trimble murder. The civil rights sit-in protests. These are just a few of the big news stories covered by Larry Brinton, an award-winning reporter who worked for the Nashville Banner i...

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