Editor for justice
Subtitle: the life of Louis I. Jaffe
By: Alexander S. Leidholdt.
Series: Southern biography series
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Baton Rouge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 507
Subjects: Jaffe, Louis I. 1888-1950.; Journalists -- United States -- Biography.; Norfolk (Va.) -- Race relations.
Genres: Biography.
Description: "From his assumption of the Norfolk Virginian-Pilot's editorial helm in 1919 until his death in 1950, Louis Isaac Jaffe served as one of the South's leading and most respected liberal journalists. Prejudice he faced as a Jew created in him an abiding empathy with the downtrodden, and his World War I military service and subsequent Red Cross work deepened his sensitivity to injustice.

Alexander Leidholdt's new biography maps the battlefield of intolerance and civil rights violations on which Jaffe fired his journalistic salvos and explores the complexities of a man who was poised to become a national spokesman for a better South.".

"Jaffe worked ceaselessly to advance racial understanding, successfully lobbying locally for black parks and beaches, black police, and a black college. He initiated the passage of a Klan anti-mask ordinance and condemned the conviction of the Scottsboro boys. A high point of Leidholdt's book is the account of Jaffe's attacks on mob justice, a stirring record of one writer's response to what he saw as inexcusable sluggishness in civil authorities.

For his campaign urging Virginia lawmakers to adopt stiff anti-lynching legislation, he earned the 1929 Pulitzer Prize for distinguished editorial writing." "Drawing extensively from primary source material, much of it previously unexamined, Editor for Justice makes an important contribution to journalism and to southern, Jewish, and black history."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [465]-489) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: 1. The Last Straw 4; title: 2. A Poignant Journey 19; title: 3. Great Expectations 46; title: 4. A War Up Close 80; title: 5. Accepting the Helm 109; title: 6. Setting a Course 128; title: 7. The Roaring Twenties 155; title: 8. Mobs in His Cross Hairs 188; title: 9. The Waning Twenties 245; title: 10. The Avant-Garde 277; title: 11. A Crushing Load 305; title: 12. Two Faces of Intolerance 331; title: 13. From Bad to Worse 358; title: 14. A Light in the Tunnel 391; title: 15. A Fight to the Finish 423; title: Postscript: The Legacy of Louis Jaffe 455.