Burning crosses and activist journalism : Hazel Brannon Smith and the Mississippi civil rights movement /
By: Whitt, Jan
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BookPublisher: Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, c2010.Description: xvii, 152 p. ; 23 cm.ISBN: 9780761849551 (pbk. : alk. paper); 0761849556 (pbk. : alk. paper); 9780761849568 (ebook)Subject(s): Smith, Hazel Brannon | Civil rights movements -- Mississippi -- History -- 20th century | Journalism -- Mississippi -- History -- 20th century | Newspaper editors -- Mississippi -- Biography | Women journalists -- Mississippi -- BiographyDDC classification: 070 WH BU Online resources: Location Map | Item type | Home library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [141]-146) and index.
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.