The press and race
Subtitle: Mississippi journalists confront the movement
By: edited by David R. Davies.
Contributors: Davies, David R. 1957-
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Jackson
Language: eng
Number of pages: 302
Subjects: African Americans -- Civil rights -- Mississippi -- History -- 20th century.; Press and politics -- Mississippi -- History -- 20th century.; Journalists -- Mississippi -- History -- 20th century.; American newspapers -- Mississippi -- History -- 20th century.; Civil rights movements -- Mississippi -- History -- 20th century.; Mississippi -- Race relations.
Description: "Instead of turning toward hatred after his father was murdered by a black man in 1926, Frank E. Smith committed himself to helping his racist state move toward integration and racial harmony. He was an anomaly in his heyday, a white politician who staunchly supported the civil rights movement at home.

As a young man growing up in the Mississippi Delta, arguably one of the most segregated and violent regions in America during the Jim Crow era, Smith (1918-1997) made the decision to work for political and social change in Mississippi.".

"For openly supporting John F. Kennedy's bid for the presidency, Smith lost the congressional seat he had held for thirteen tumultuous but productive years. After the election in 1960, Kennedy appointed him to the governing board of the Tennessee Valley Authority, on which Smith served until 1972. In this position he clashed with the growing environmental movement outside the TVA.

At the same time, he worked with the Southern Regional Council and the Voter Education Project to register black voters throughout the South." "As this biography details the conflicting political terrains in Smith's life, it reveals the complexities of his political and social views and shows Smith as a man at odds both with the conservative establishment of the 1960s and the left wing of his own party."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Introduction 3; title: David R. Davies; title: Mississippi's Daily Press in Three Crises 17; title: Susan M. Weill; title: Percy Greene and the Jackson Advocate 55; title: Caryl A. Cooper; title: Jimmy Ward and the Jackson Daily News 85; title: David R. Davies & Judy Smith; title: J. Oliver Emmerich and the McComb Enterprise-Journal in; title: David R. Davies; title: George A. McLean and the Tupelo Journal 137; title: Laura Nan Fairley; title: Ira B. Harkey, Jr., and the Pascagoula Chronicle 173; title: David L. Bennett; title: Wilson F. (Bill) Minor and the New Orleans Times-Picayune 209; title: Lawrence N. Strout; title: Hazel Brannon Smith and the Lexington Advertiser 233; title: ArthurJ. Kaul; title: Hodding Carter, Jr., and the Delta Democrat-Times 265; title: Ginger Rudeseal Carter.