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Karl Fleming

Karl Fleming (August 30, – August 11, ) was an American journalist who made a significant contribution to the Civil Rights Movement through his work for Newsweek magazine in the s.[1] Fleming was born in Newport News, Virginia in

Early life

When he was a baby, his father died.

His mother remarried and had a daughter with her new husband. At the age of 6, his stepfather died and soon after his mother was diagnosed with tuberculosis.

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Fleming and his half sister were forced to go into an orphanage. Fleming has claimed that his experiences as a young boy in the orphanage encouraged a hatred of bullies and a support for the underdog that influenced his position on the civil rights struggle.[2][3]

Education

Fleming attended college for two years and in joined the US Navy.[2]

Career

After his serving in the Navy, Fleming worked at local newspapers and eventually worked his way up to becoming a reporter for The Atlanta Constitution Magazine.

In , having worked as a stringer for Newsweek for a number of months, he was hired by the magazine as a permanent correspondent in their Atlanta Bureau when Bill Emerson, formerly Atlanta Bureau Chief, was promoted. During his career as a journalist, Fleming risked his life covering James Meredith's entry into the University of Mississippi and also in when he covered the deaths of three civil rights workers in Philadelphia, Mississippi.

After a brief stint at the Houston Bureau, Fleming was promoted to chief of Newsweek's Los Angeles Bureau.

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Whilst in this post, Fleming not only covered the Watts riots of but was also severely beaten during a later flare-up of tension in LA's southern black neighborhood in [3][4] In two men used counterfeit dollar bills printed with DB Cooper serial numbers to swindle $30, from Karl Fleming who was then working for Newsweek in exchange for an interview with a man they falsely claimed was the hijacker.[5]

Personal life

Fleming's first wife was Sandra Sisk and his second wife was Anne Taylor Fleming.

He has four sons named Chas, David, Russell, and Mark and eight grandchildren. Sisk died in

Death

He died at his Los Angeles home in of respiratory complications at the age of [4][6]

Bibliography

  • The First Time: Famous People Tell about Their First Sexual Experience (), with Anne Taylor Fleming.

    Simon & Schuster[7]

  • Son Of The Rough South: An Uncivil Memoir () ISBN&#;[8]

References

  1. ^Interview with Fleming at Syracuse University websiteArchived at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ abHevesi, Dennis (16 August ).

    "Karl Fleming, Reporter Who Covered Civil Rights, Dies at 84".

    Karl fleming reporter pictures All Sections. After treatment for depression, he found his way back to journalism as managing editor and political editor of Channel 2 News from to This did not work for me at the Mayday project, but I liked the spirit of collaboration among equals, even if it meant a lot of arguments. More to Read.

    New York Times. Retrieved 2 May

  3. ^ abFleming, Karl, Son of the Rough South: An Uncivil Memoir (New York, NY: Public Affairs, )
  4. ^ abWoo, Elaine (12 August ). "Karl Fleming dies at 84; Newsweek reporter chronicled civil rights struggle".

    LA Times. Archived from the original on August 14, Retrieved 2 May

  5. ^^ FBI files on Fleming case, released via Freedom of Information Act Retrieved February 15,
  6. ^Woo, Elaine (12 August ).

    Karl fleming reporter pictures of people We egged each other on. Jan Harkus now Jann Littleton was the office manager who hooked up with my ex-brother-in-law, David Roberts, a columnist on the masthead, had a child together named Funn, and is still in touch with my nieces and their kids. A photograph of him lying in his own blood, his jaw broken and skull fractured, ran in newspapers across the country the next day. See the full list.

    "Obituarties". Los Angeles Times.

  7. ^"Karl Fleming &#; Speaker Profile and Speaking Topics". Archived from the original on Retrieved
  8. ^review at NPR