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100 1 $aDavis, Belva,$d1932-.
245 10$aNever in my wildest dreams :$ba Black woman's life in journalism /$cBelva Davis with Vicki Haddock ; foreword by Bill Cosby.
260 $aSan Francisco :$bBerrett-Koehler Publishers,$cc2012.
300 $ax, 239 p., [18] p. :$bill. ;$c23 cm.
500 $aIncludes index.
505 0 $a"What the hell are you niggers doing in here?" -- Up from troubled waters -- Truth isn't what you want to see -- Strained mercies -- In the driver's seat -- Vapors and black ink -- Lucky 13 -- Lend me a tiara -- Dreams deferred -- New station in life -- His-and-hers gas masks -- Ringside at the racial revolution -- Freeze frames -- A woman's touch -- When work hits home -- White night and dark days -- Diversified interests -- Going global -- Special reports -- Never in my wildest ....
520 $aBelva Davis covered many of the most explosive stories of the last half-century, including the birth of the Black Panthers, the Jonestown massacre, the Moscone/Milk murders, the onset of the AIDS epidemic, and Osama bin Laden's activities in Africa. Along the way, she encountered a cavalcade of cultural icons: Malcolm X, Frank Sinatra, James Brown, Nancy Reagan, Huey Newton, Muhammad Ali, Alex Haley, Fidel Castro, and others. Her absorbing memoir traces the trajectoryof an extraordinary life in extraordinary times.
600 10$aDavis, Belva,$d1932-.
650 0$aTelevision journalists$zUnited States$vBiography.
650 0$aAfrican American women journalists$vBiography.
650 0$aJournalists$zUnited States$vBiography.
700 1 $aHaddock, Vicki.