- Collection:
- Encyclopedia of Arkansas History & Culture
- Title:
- Harry Scott Ashmore (1916-1998)
- Creator:
- Sawyer, Nathania
- Date of Original:
- 1916/1998
- Subject:
- Newspapers--Arkansas
Press--Arkansas
Reporters and reporting--Arkansas
School integration--Arkansas--Little Rock
Central High School (Little Rock, Ark.)
School integration--Massive resistance movement--Arkansas--Little Rock
African Americans--Civil rights--Arkansas--Little Rock
Pulitzer Prizes
Awards--United States
Journalists--Arkansas--Biography - People:
- Ashmore, Harry S.
- Location:
- United States, Arkansas, Pulaski County, Little Rock, 34.74648, -92.28959
- Medium:
- articles
black-and-white photographs - Type:
- Text
- 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. - Metadata URL:
- http://www.encyclopediaofarkansas.net/encyclopedia/entry-detail.aspx?search=1&entryID=1579
- Language:
- eng
- Rights Holder:
- copyright Encyclopedia of Arkansas History & Culture 2007
- Contributing Institution:
- Encyclopedia of Arkansas History & Culture
- Rights:
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