Hodding Carter still remembers two disturbing things from his Louisiana boyhood. He was only six when he saw a yelping gang of white boys chasing a Negro kid. Several years later, he came upon the pendant body of a lynch victim. Those violent pictures never faded from his mind. Last week, for flaying racism wherever he found it, Editor Hodding Carter, 39, of the Greenville, Miss. Delta Democrat Times, won the 1945 Pulitzer Prize ($500)* for distinguished editorial writing. Especially cited: his plea for fairness to returning Nisei soldiers.
Carters v. Kingfish....
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