Burning Crosses and Activist Journalism

Jan Whitt is a professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Colorado at Boulder. An award-winning author who has written more than seventy articles and book chapters, she also has written several books: Allegory and the Modern Southern Novel (Mercer University Press, 1994), Settling the Borderland: Other Voices in Literary Journalism (University Press of America 2008), and Women in American Journalism: A New History (University of Illinois Press, 2008). She edited Reflections in a Critical Eye: Essays on Carson McCullers (University Press of America, 2007).

• Chapter 1 Introduction: The American South in Literature and Popular CultureChapter 2 PrefaceChapter 3 AcknowledgementsChapter 4 Chapter 1: The Unlikely Heroism of Hazel Brannon SmithChapter 5 Chapter 2: Hazel Brannon Smith and Editor Ira B. Harkey Jr.Chapter 6 Chapter 3: White Hate Groups and Mississippi NewspapersChapter 7 Chapter 4: White Civil Rights Editors and Hazel Brannon SmithChapter 8 Chapter 5: Racial Issues in Southern Literature and JournalismChapter 9 Conclusion: The Legacy of Civil Rights JournalismChapter 10 Works CitedChapter 11 IndexChapter 12 About the Author

Is an interesting read. Whitt's inclusion of race issues as portrayed in Southern literature impacts depth and understanding to the racial climate of the time and should interest students of Southern literature.