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.
Civil rights movements--History--Mississippi--20th century. Journalism--History--Mississippi--20th century. Newspaper editors--Mississippi--Biography. Women journalists--Mississippi--Biography.