Burning Crosses and Activist Journalism: Hazel Brannon Smith and the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement by Whitt, Jan

Burning Crosses and Activist Journalism: Hazel Brannon Smith and the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780761849551)

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Format: Paperback
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Burning Crosses and Activist Journalism: Hazel Brannon Smith and the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement by Whitt, Jan

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

$51.95
Burning Crosses and Activist Journalism: Hazel Brannon Smith and the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement by Whitt, Jan

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

$51.95
Format: Paperback
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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.

Author: Jan Whitt
ISBN-10: 0761849556
ISBN-13: 9780761849551
Publisher: University Press of America
Language: English
Published: 12/01/2009
Pages: 170
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.60d
By Jan Whitt
By Jan Whitt
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Jan Whitt is a professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Colorado at Boulder. An award-winning author who has written more than seventy articles and book chapters, she also has written several books: Allegory and the Modern Southern Novel (Mercer University Press, 1994), Settling the Borderland: Other Voices in Literary Journalism (University Press of America 2008), and Women in American Journalism: A New History (University of Illinois Press, 2008). She edited Reflections in a Critical Eye: Essays on Carson McCullers (University Press of America, 2007).

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