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Author:

Howell, Jeffery Brian, 1965- author.

Title:

Hazel Brannon Smith : the female crusading scalawag / Jeffery B. Howell.

Publisher:

University Press of Mississippi,

Copyright Date:

2017

Description:

viii, 245 pages ; 24 cm

Subject:

Smith, Hazel Brannon.
Smith, Hazel Brannon.
Civil rights movements--Mississippi--History--20th century.
Journalism--Mississippi--History--20th century.
Newspaper editors--Mississippi--Biography.
Journalists--Mississippi--Biography.
Civil rights movements.
Journalism.
Journalists.
Newspaper editors.
Mississippi.
1900-1999
Biography.
History.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

"I ain't no lady, I'm a newspaper woman" : the battle with bootlegging and organized crime -- "This is white man's country and both races know it" : defending Jim Crow -- From popular editor to pariah : the attempt to navigate through the sea of massive resistance -- When moderate became a dirty word : the fight for economic survival -- "This female scalawag domiciled in our midst" : the full-scale war with the white establishment -- "The liberal Hazel Brannon Smith" : supporting the civil rights movement -- "The price of speaking the truth has been high" : surviving in the post-civil rights era.

ISBN:

1496810791
9781496810793

OCLC:

(OCoLC)953617894

LCCN:

2016031720

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)