Burning Crosses and Activist Journalism

Jan Whitt

doi:10.5771/9780761849568

Burning Crosses and Activist Journalism

Hazel Brannon Smith and the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement

1. Auflage 2009

Kein Zugriff

doi.org/10.5771/9780761849568
ISBN print: 978-0-7618-4955-1
ISBN online: 978-0-7618-4956-8
Hamilton Books, Lanham Hamilton Books, Lanham

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Abstract

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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i–xviii Preface i–xviii
1–22 Introduction: The American South in Literature and Popular Culture 1–22
23–46 Chapter 1: The Unlikely Heroism of Hazel Brannon Smith 23–46
47–70 Chapter 2: Hazel Brannon Smith and Editor Ira B. Harkey Jr. 47–70
71–86 Chapter 3: White Hate Groups and Mississippi Newspapers 71–86
87–112 Chapter 4: White Civil Rights Editors and Hazel Brannon Smith 87–112
113–128 Chapter 5: Racial Issues in Southern Literature and Journalism 113–128
129–140 Conclusion: The Legacy of Civil Rights Journalism 129–140
141–146 Works Cited 141–146
147–150 Index 147–150
151–152 About the Author 151–152

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