The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation is a 2006 nonfiction book by journalists Gene Roberts and Hank Klibanoff.

The book is about the Civil Rights Movement in the United States, specifically about the role of newspapers and television.

[1] The book received the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for History.

[2] It was the necessary reading for the University Interscholastic League's Social Studies Competition in 2019.

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