Title: Burning Crosses and Activist Journalism
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.
Subjects: Women journalists, Women, united states, biography, Civil rights movements, History, Journalism, Newspaper editors, Biography