With the support of the Ford Foundation, southern editors created the Southern Education Reporting Service (SERS), based in Nashville, Tennessee. Top newspapermen and women of the District of Columbia and 17 southern and border states became correspondents to the SERS newspaper, Southern School News. William T. Shelton, city editor of the Arkansas Gazette, served as Arkansas' correspondent to the SERS paper. Born in Jonesboro, Arkansas in 1920, Shelton began his newspaper career in the Depression years of the 1930s. After serving as a pilot in the Army Air Corps in World War II, Shelton studied journalism at the University of Arkansas, then at Columbia Graduate School of Journalism. Soon, he began working for the Arkansas Gazette; he was the city editor of the paper from 1952-1985.
From the description of William T. Shelton Desegregation Materials 1954-1970. (Central Arkansas Library System). WorldCat record id: 50961350
