Burning Crosses and Activist Journalism: Hazel Brannon Smith and the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement

by JanWhitt (Author)

• New

  Paperback
  2009

  $44.66

  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.