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

By Jan Whitt and Hazel Brannon Smith

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0761849556
• ISBN13: 9780761849551
• Release Date: November 2009
• Publisher: University Press of America
• Length: 170 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"