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| Creator: | Sawyer, Nathania |
| Title: | Harry Scott Ashmore (1916-1998) |
| Date: | 1916-1998 |
| Description: | Biographical entry on Harry Scott Ashmore, the executive editor of the Arkansas Gazette who wrote a series of Pulitzer Prize-winning articles on the desgregation crisis at Little Rock Central High School in 1957. Includes photographs. The Civil Rights Digital Library received support from a National Leadership Grant for Libraries awarded to the University of Georgia by the Institute of Museum and Library Services for the aggregation and enhancement of partner metadata. |
| Types: | Articles | Black-and-white photographs |
| Subjects: | Ashmore, Harry S. | Newspapers--Arkansas | Press--Arkansas | Reporters and reporting--Arkansas | School integration--Arkansas--Little Rock | Central High School (Little Rock, Ark.) | Clemson Agricultural College of South Carolina | School integration--Massive resistance movement--Arkansas--Little Rock | African Americans--Civil rights--Arkansas--Little Rock | Pulitzer Prizes | Awards--United States | Journalists--Arkansas--Biography | Little Rock (Ark.) | Pulaski County (Ark.) |
| Collection: | Encyclopedia of Arkansas History & Culture |
| Institution: | Richard C. Butler Center for Arkansas Studies |
| Contributors: | Encyclopedia of Arkansas History & Culture |
| Online Publisher: | [Little Rock, Ark.] : The Central Arkansas Library System | 2006-04-25 |
| Rights and Usage: | copyright Encyclopedia of Arkansas History & Culture 2007 |
| Persistent Link to Item: | http://www.encyclopediaofarkansas.net/encyclopedia/entry-detail.aspx?search=1&entryID=1579 |
