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Burning Crosses and Activist Journalism
Hazel Brannon Smith and the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement
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2009
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Burning Crosses and Activist Journalism: Hazel Brannon Smith and the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement celebrates the contributions of the first woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing (1964). Owner and publisher of four weekly newspapers in Mississippi, Smith began her journalism career as a states rights Dixiecrat and segregationist, but became an icon for progressive thought on racial and ethnic issues. Though befriended by editors such as Hodding Carter Jr. and Ira B. Harkey Jr., Smith was a target of the White Citizens' Council and was boycotted by advertisers. During the civil rights movement, a cross was burned in her yard and one of her newspaper offices was firebombed. Before her death in 1994, she endured foreclosure, memory loss, and public humiliation, but she never lost faith in journalism or in the power of informed debate.
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Copyright year
2009
ISBN-Print
978-0-7618-4955-1
ISBN-Online
978-0-7618-4956-8
Publisher
Hamilton Books, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
152
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Preface No access
Acknowledgements No access
Introduction: The American South in Literature and Popular Culture No access Pages 1 - 22
Chapter 1: The Unlikely Heroism of Hazel Brannon Smith No access Pages 23 - 46
Chapter 2: Hazel Brannon Smith and Editor Ira B. Harkey Jr. No access Pages 47 - 70
Chapter 3: White Hate Groups and Mississippi Newspapers No access Pages 71 - 86
Chapter 4: White Civil Rights Editors and Hazel Brannon Smith No access Pages 87 - 112
Chapter 5: Racial Issues in Southern Literature and Journalism No access Pages 113 - 128
Conclusion: The Legacy of Civil Rights Journalism No access Pages 129 - 140
