Burning Crosses and Activist Journalism
Subtitle: Hazel Brannon Smith and the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement
Publisher: University Press of America, Incorporated
Published: 2009
Language: eng
Number of pages: 170
ISBN-13: 9780761849551
Subjects: Women journalists; Women, united states, biography
Description: 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.