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100	1		_aWhitt, Jan. _939915
245	1	0	_aBurning crosses and activist journalism : _bHazel Brannon Smith and the Mississippi civil rights movement / _cJan Whitt.
260			_aLanham, Md. : _bUniversity Press of America, _cc2010.
300			_axvii, 152 p. ; _c23 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [141]-146) and index.
505	0		_aIntroduction: 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.
520			_aThis 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.
600	1	0	_aSmith, Hazel Brannon. _939916
650		0	_aCivil rights movements _zMississippi _xHistory _y20th century. _939917
650		0	_aJournalism _zMississippi _xHistory _y20th century. _939918
650		0	_aNewspaper editors _zMississippi _vBiography. _939919
650		0	_aWomen journalists _zMississippi _vBiography. _939920
856			_uhttps://uowd.box.com/s/wua39222hn4dlnwq4gmkwimjlfpu6j0g _zLocation Map
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