Ira Harkey
Ira Harkey was born in New Orleans in 1918. He served as editor of the Pascagoula Chronicle during the integration of the University of Mississippi in 1962, and his opinion and editorial writing won him the Pulitzer Prize in 1963. Harkey wrote three other books and lectured at several universities before his death in 2006.
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The Smell of Burning Crosses
An Autobiography of a Mississippi Newspaperman
By Ira Harkey; Introduction by William Hustwit
University Press of Mississippi
A Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist’s account of the terror and menace leveled at advocates of integration
The Smell of Burning Crosses
An Autobiography of a Mississippi Newspaperman
By Ira Harkey; Introduction by William Hustwit
University Press of Mississippi
A Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist’s account of the terror and menace leveled at advocates of integration
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