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Harry S. Ashmore
Image courtesy of the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum, Museum Artifacts Collection, Ar…
Image courtesy of the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum, Museum Artifacts Collection, Artifact No. 1973.1.1559

Harry S. Ashmore

United States, 1916 - 1998
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Harry Scott Ashmore (b. July 28, 1916, Greenville, South Carolina- d. January 20, 1998, Santa Barbara, California) was an American author and journalist. Ashmore worked at the Arkansas Gazette from 1947 until 1959; he began as an editorial writer but soon became the executive director of the paper. In 1957 Ashmore won a Pulitzer Prize for his editorials on the school integration conflict in Little Rock, Arkansas.
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