By Candy Justice and Bryan Cottingham
World vs. Bob Chisholm
Non-Fiction | Biography
When 28-year-old Bob Chisholm relocated his wife, Carol, and daughter, Candy, to Winona, Mississippi (population 4382) in 1958, to start up the town’s first radio station, he had no idea what was in store for him. Small town life in the 1950s and 1960s brings to mind people leaving their houses unlocked while they were away on vacation and everybody saying “yes ma’am” and “yes, sir” to their elders. Because there was a general friendliness between the races in small towns, it was easy for white people to convince themselves that racial discrimination did not exist. Because Winona was one of several “ground zero” communities in Mississippi for the Civil Rights movement, its self-image was challenged by events beyond its control. By simply reporting civil rights news and crimes committed by local elected officials, Bob Chisholm was beaten up and his life was threatened. This is a memoir about the courage of Bob Chisholm as written by his daughter, who went on to become a journalism professor, and one of his teenage announcers, who went on to become an Emmy-winning director and producer.
Candy Justice and Bryan Cottingham have produced a gem. World vs. Bob Chisholm is a well-written narrative about the manager of a small-town Mississippi radio station who fights for good, often against the forces of evil, in the turbulent 1950s and ‘60s. The book chronicles Chisholm’s battles against corrupt police officers and the Ku Klux Klan as he reports the news in and around Winona, Mississippi, during the height of the Civil Rights Movement.
– Otis Sanford, Professor Emeritus in Journalism, The University of Memphis.
World v. Bob Chisholm, is an intimate account of a courageous small town radio general manager who put his reputation and safety on the line to fight for the dignity and respect of each citizen, black and white/male and female, in Winona, Mississippi, in the late 1950s and into the 1970s. The story is told from the perspective of two people who knew Chisholm the best – his daughter Candy Justice and his protégé Bryan Cottingham. Chisholm’s story is powerful, inspirational and emotional. It fills a major void in media history.
– Thomas J. Hrach, Professor of Journalism at The University of Memphis.
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