Southern Editorialists

 

“These Southern editorialists — 11 White men and one White woman — would risk life, limb and livelihood to write what they believed. That the South must change, that legal barriers to equality must be torn down, that violence and hatred must give way to peace, tolerance and justice.”

 

—Kanika Jelks Tomalin, deputy mayor of St. Petersburg, discussing Civil Rights-era journalists, “A century of Pulitzer winners call on journalists to shake up status quo,” Poynter Institute, April 1, 2016.

 

 

 

• Editorial Comment: Truth is potent. 

 

 

 

PeezPIX

 

Irony Cards, 2016

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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