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The Editor and The Dragon: Horace Carter Fights the Klan

  • Documentary

January 1, 2013 (US)

0h 58m

In 1953, Horace Carter earned a Pulitzer Prize for Meritorious Public Service for his reporting on the Ku Klux Klan. Carter persevered in the face of death threats, including those against his family, and used the editorial authority of North Carolina's TABOR CITY TRIBUNE to pro...

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