Whitt, Jan.
Burning crosses and activist journalism : Hazel Brannon Smith and the Mississippi civil rights movement / Jan Whitt. - Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, c2010. - xvii, 152 p. ; 23 cm.
Introduction: The American South in literature and popular culture -- The unlikely heroism of Hazel Brannon Smith -- Hazel Brannon Smith and editor Ira B. Harkey, Jr. -- White hat groups and Mississippi newspapers -- White civil rights editors and Hazel Brannon Smith -- Racial issues in Southern literature and journalism -- The legacy of civil rights journalism.
This book celebrates the contributions of the first woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing. 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.
9780761849551 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0761849556 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9780761849568 (ebook)
2009938308
Civil rights movements--History--Mississippi--20th century.
Journalism--History--Mississippi--20th century.
Newspaper editors--Mississippi--Biography.
Women journalists--Mississippi--Biography.
070 WH BU
Burning crosses and activist journalism : Hazel Brannon Smith and the Mississippi civil rights movement / Jan Whitt. - Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, c2010. - xvii, 152 p. ; 23 cm.
Introduction: The American South in literature and popular culture -- The unlikely heroism of Hazel Brannon Smith -- Hazel Brannon Smith and editor Ira B. Harkey, Jr. -- White hat groups and Mississippi newspapers -- White civil rights editors and Hazel Brannon Smith -- Racial issues in Southern literature and journalism -- The legacy of civil rights journalism.
This book celebrates the contributions of the first woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing. 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.
9780761849551 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0761849556 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9780761849568 (ebook)
2009938308
Civil rights movements--History--Mississippi--20th century.
Journalism--History--Mississippi--20th century.
Newspaper editors--Mississippi--Biography.
Women journalists--Mississippi--Biography.
070 WH BU