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Burning Crosses and Activist Journalism: Hazel Brannon Smith and the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement celebrates the contributions of the first woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing (1964). Owner and publisher of four weekly newspapers in Mississippi, Smith began her journalism career as a states rights Dixiecrat and ...
Hazel Brannon Smith, long-time editor and owner of The Lexington Advertiser and The Durant News, was buried Tuesday, May 17 in her birthplace of Gadsden, Ala., following graveside services. She was 80 Mrs. Smith died on Saturday, May 14 following a brief battle with liver cancer.
Apr 15, 1994 · In 1964, Hazel Brannon Smith became the first woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing. Jane Seymour portrays the well-bred Mississippi belle and small-town newspaper publisher, who ...
Smith, Hazel Brannon (1914–1994)White Southern newspaper owner and editor, one of the few journalists in her region to oppose racism during early desegregation efforts, who was the first woman editor to win a Pulitzer Prize. Name variations: Hazel Brannon. Born on February 4, 1914, in Gadsden, Alabama; died on May 14, 1994, in Cleveland ...
May 14, 1994 · Hazel Brannon Smith, long-time editor and owner of The Lexington Advertiser and The Durant News, was buried Tuesday, May 17 in her birthplace of Gadsden, Ala., following graveside services. She was 80 Mrs. Smith died on Saturday, May 14 following a brief battle with liver cancer.
Hazel Smith. Hazel Ruth Boone, also known as Hazel Smith (May 31, 1934 – March 18, 2018) was an American country music journalist, publicist, singer-songwriter, television and radio show host, and cookbook author. She is sometimes credited with creating the term " outlaw country ," which has been used to describe country music by performers ...
Jul 5, 2017 · "Hazel Brannon Smith: The Female Crusading Scalawag" (University Press of Mississippi, 2017, $35) is available at Lemuria Books (4465 Interstate 55 N., Suite 202, lemuriabooks.com).
