Jason Berry
Southern Exposure Contributor
Jason Berry is the author of Amazing Grace: With Charles Evers in Mississippi, and co-author of Up From the Cradle of Jazz, a forthcoming history of New Orleans music. This article was re searched with a grant from the Fund for Investigative Journalism in Washington, D.C. (1984)
Jason Berry is the author of Amazing Grace, which chronicles Charles Evers’ campaign for governor of Mississippi. He has written for numerous national publications, and last appeared in Southern Exposure in “Long Journey Home,” with a profile of the Creole poet, Jack Nocentelli. (1978)
Jason Berry is a New Orleans freelance journalist and the author of Amazing Grace: With Charles Evers in Mississippi. His interview with Jack Nocentelli originally appeared in the New Orleans paper, Figaro. (1977)
Email Jason Berry
Articles by Jason Berry
March 1, 1984 -
Edwin Edwards won election to an unprecedented third term as governor of Louisiana in November 1983, taking 62 percent of the vote in defeating incumbent David Treen.
October 1, 1978 -
This article originally appeared in Southern Exposure Vol. 6 No. 3, "Passing Glances." Find more from that issue here.
September 1, 1977 -
This article originally appeared in Southern Exposure Vol. 5 No. 2, "Long Journey Home: Folklife in the South." Find more from that issue here.