"Coming Full Circle: From Jim Crow to Journalism" is the memoir of an African American woman who gr ew up privileged and educated in the segregated culture of the American So uth before and during the twentieth-century civil rights movement. Despite laws that restricted her housing\, education\, voting rights\, and virtua lly every other aspect of life\, Wanda Smalls Lloyd grew up to become one of the nation's highest-ranking newspaper journalists\, and among the firs t African American women to be the top editor of a major newspaper. Coming Full Circle is a self-reflective exploration of the author's life journey &mdash\;from growing up in coastal Savannah\, Georgia\, to editing roles a t seven daily newspapers\, and finally back to Savannah to make a differen ce in her childhood community. Her path was shaped not only by the segrega ted social\, community\, and educational systems\, but also by religious a nd home training\, a strong cultural foundation\, and early leadership opp ortunities. That Southern upbringing produced an adult woman who realized her professional dream of working for daily newspapers and rose to become an editor at the Washington Post and a senior editor at USA Today before r eturning South as the executive editor of the Montgomery Advertiser. Along the way\, she was an advocate and an example for how diversity helped new srooms become reflections of accuracy for their audience. Lloyd's memoir o pens a window on the intersection of race\, gender\, and culture in profes sional journalism. How she excelled in a profession where high-ranking Afr ican American women were rare is a reminder for older readers and an inspi ring story for a younger generation.
\nWanda Smalls Lloyd parlayed her passion for storytelling when she transitioned from jo urnalism to writing non-fiction. A newspaper editor for more than four dec ades\, she now writes from her home in Savannah\, Georgia\, where she grew up in the 1950s and 1960s and left for college and career. In 2013\, her award-winning work as an editor at seven daily newspapers brought her full circle back to Savannah as a professor. Lloyd\, co-editor of The Edge of Change: Women in the 21st Century Press\, retired from daily journalism af ter serving more than eight years as executive editor of the Montgomery Ad vertiser\, the daily newspaper in Alabama&rsquo\;s capital city. She has a lso been an editor at The Washington Post\, USA Today\, the Miami Herald\, the Atlanta Journal\, the Greenville (SC) News and the Providence Evening Bulletin. She was the founding executive director of the Freedom Forum Di versity Institute at Vanderbilt University in Nashville\, Tennessee. Most recently she was associate professor and chair of the Department of Journa lism and Mass Communications at Savannah State University. At home when sh e is not writing\, Lloyd enjoys volunteering with service organizations\, gardening and doting on her family &ndash\; her husband\, Willie\, their d aughter\, Shelby who lives in Florida\, and Bella\, the family&rsquo\;s mi ni pinscher. Spelman College\, Lloyd&rsquo\;s alma mater\, awarded her an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters in 2016. She was inducted into the Na tional Association of Black Journalists&rsquo\; Hall of Fame in 2019.
\ nCo-presented with the Prince George's County Office of Human Rights an d NewSouth Books
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