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Burning Crosses and Activist Journalism: Hazel Brannon Smith and the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement

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Burning Crosses and Activist Journalism: Hazel Brannon Smith and the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement celebrates the contributions of the primary lady to win a Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing (1964). Owner and publisher of 4 weekly newspapers in Mississippi, Smith started her journalism career as a states rights Dixiecrat and segregationist, but changed into an icon for progressive thought on racial and ethnic issues. Despite the fact that befriended by editors such as Hodding Carter Jr. and Ira B. Harkey Jr., Smith used to be a target of the White Citizens’ Council and used to be boycotted by advertisers. Right through the civil rights movement, a cross used to be burned in her yard and certainly one of her newspaper offices used to be firebombed. Before her death in 1994, she endured foreclosure, memory loss, and public humiliation, but she never lost faith in journalism or within the power of informed debate.

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