Archives 1954-1975.

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Archives 1954-1975.

Formerly Southern Educational Reporting Service, diseminating objective information on school integration and desegregation. Eventually expanded to include all aspects of human rights. Includes correspondence, minutes, press releases, photographs, financial records, collected items.

42.4 ln. ft 106 Boxes and 355 reels micro.

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Ashmore, Harry S.

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Harry S. Ashmore (1916-1998) was an American journalist and author. During his tenure as executive editor of the Arkansas Gazette, the paper won a Pulitzer Prize for Public Service (1957) for its coverage of the school integration conflict in Little Rock, Arkansas. In 1959 he relocated to California where he worked with the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions in Santa Barbara (1959-1974) and served as editor in chief of the Encyclopedia Britannica (1960-1963). He is the author of ele...

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Born in Hammond, Louisiana; graduated from Bowdoin College; married Betty Werlein in 1931; founder and editor of the Daily Courier, Hammond, Louisiana, and the Delta Democrat-Times, Greenville, Mississippi; won a Pulitzer Prize in 1946 for his editorials; active in civil rights. From the description of The angry scar manuscript, 1959. (University of Southern Mississippi, Regional Campus). WorldCat record id: 17165121 ...

Southern Education Reporting Service

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Abzug, Bella S., 1920-1998

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