While I have always thought that the South treated blacks differently than other parts of the United States, I never dreamed it was worse than ever for them until after World War II. This was an eye opening experience for me. " 'Our ships are traveling on very different bearings': Writer leaves embattled U-Va. ^ "Douglas Blackmon", Miller Center, accessed August 17, 2017.^ "Slavery by Another Name", PBS, accessed 22 August 2022."The Pulitzer Prizes: Ex-AJC reporter wins book award". Blackmon discusses African-American labor" Archived at archive.today, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 3 September 2009, accessed 17 October 2012 It was produced in conjunction with the University of Virginia's Miller Center of Public Affairs, where Blackmon was a senior fellow and the Director of Public Programs. įrom 2012 until 2018 Blackmon was the host and executive producer of American Forum, a weekly public-affairs program that was broadcast on more than 100 PBS stations in the United States.
The film can be viewed in its entirety on the PBS website. Ī documentary film which is based on Blackmon's book and also titled Slavery by Another Name, was aired on February 13, 2012, on PBS stations. In 2009, Blackmon was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction for Slavery by Another Name. He revealed the stories of tens of thousands of slaves and their descendants who journeyed into freedom after Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation and then journeyed back into the shadow of involuntary servitude, which lasted into the 20th century. In 2008, Blackmon published Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II, which explored the history of peonage and convict lease labor in the South after the American Civil War. While there, he shared the 2011 Gerald Loeb Award for Large Newspapers for the story "Deep Trouble". In 1995, he began working for The Wall Street Journal and in 2012 became its Atlanta bureau chief. He later moved to Atlanta, where he worked as a reporter at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Blackmon first worked as a reporter for the Arkansas Democrat and he later worked as the managing editor of the Daily Record, both in Little Rock.
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