(Courtesy of Mississippi Writers & Musicians)

By Jennifer Phillips (SHS)

“The South is so often damned for social backwardness, for reaction entrenched in smugness and lethargy, that it is a pleasure to introduce a young Southerner who represents a totally different school of thought and action.”    Saturday Evening Post Feb.23, 1946, on Hodding Carter’s 1946 Pulitzer Prize   

(Courtesy of United Press International.)

PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Sevellon Brown III, veteran Washington correspondent and reporter for the Providence Journal-Bulletin, died Wednesday at Rhode Island Hospital. He was 70,

Brown worked at the Journal-Bulletin from 1939 to 1968 when he retired because of ill health.

He was born in Washington on April 23, 1913, the son of Sevellon and Elizabeth Barry Brown.

(Courtesy of The New York Times)

Barry Bingham Sr. Is Dead at 82; Louisville Newspapers' Publisher

By Alex Jones

August 16, 1988

Barry Bingham Sr., whose newspapers in Louisville, Ky., were leading liberal voices in the South, for decades, died yesterday at his Louisville home. He was 82 years old and had been undergoing treatment for cancer.