W. Horace Carter, Newspaperman (1921-2009)

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Wanted: More Voice of Reason

“He was a God-and-country kind of guy. But he was committed to social justice, and he was not prepared for the fact that other people didn’t see it that way. . . . He acknowledged being scared, especially for his family. But he was a newspaperman.”

—Russell Carter, about his father,
Walter Horace Carter (1921-2009),
editor of The Tabor (N.C.) City Tribune, which won the Pulitzer Prize for public service in 1953 for Carter’s opposition to the Ku Klux Klan.
Carter died yesterday at 88. (Click here for obit.)
(Thanks to alert WORDster Andrew Merton)

• From the New York Times obit:
“The Tabor City Tribune was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for public service, which it shared with another local paper nearby . . . . The citation read: ‘For their successful campaign against the Ku Klux Klan, waged on their own doorstep at the risk of economic loss and personal danger, culminating in the conviction of over one hundred Klansmen and an end to terrorism in their communities.’”

Editor’s Note: I hope they put that walk-off on my stone . . . .
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