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Hodding Carter: The Reconstruction of a Racist

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Using his little day by day paper to battle for equality before the law and an end to the mistreatment of black people, Hodding Carter took at the power structure of the state of Mississippi. Castigated by politicians, denounced by his fellow editors, threatened with economic reprisal and physical violence, he drew the wrath of everyone from the rustic club to the crossroads store. What sort of man was once this who stuck to his guns for what he believed, within the face of anger and vitriol, destestation and denuciation? Ann Waldron tells the tale of a colorful, complex, combative man who in his college years was once an outspoken white supremacist, but later changed his mind, spending the majority of his life advocating for racial justice and finding himself at the unpopular sides of many political and social issues. No uncritical eulogy, this book re-creates the passionate life, private and non-private, of a improper but authentic American hero.


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