Sawyer, Nathania
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.
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Record Contributed By
Encyclopedia of Arkansas History & CultureRecord Harvested From
Digital Library of GeorgiaKeywords
- African Americans
- Arkansas
- Awards
- Biography
- Central High School (Little Rock, Ark.)
- Civil Rights
- Clemson Agricultural College Of South Carolina
- Journalists
- Little Rock
- Massive Resistance Movement
- Newspapers
- Press
- Pulitzer Prizes
- Reporters And Reporting
- School Integration
- United States
![[African American man, rising, after being knocked to the ground by mob at Central High School, Little Rock, Arkansas]](https://d2l9jrtx1kk04i.cloudfront.net/10ca6801d41348e2e213a833a6c019fc5c621cb4.png "[African American man, rising, after being knocked to the ground by mob at Central High School, Little Rock, Arkansas]")
