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Harry S. Ashmore

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Image courtesy of the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum, Museum Artifacts Collection, Artifact No. 1973.1.1559
Harry S. AshmoreUnited States, 1916 - 1998

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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1973.1.1559
Reg Manning
ca. September 1967
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1973.1.1252
University of Illinois
ca. October 1967
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