The Editor and The Dragon Horace Carter Fights the Klan (2013)

In 1953 Horace Carter earned a Pulitzer Prize for Meritorious Public Service for his reporting on the Ku Klux Klan Carter persevered in the face of death threats including those against his family and used the editorial authority of North Carolinas TABOR CITY TRIBUNE to protest the Klans racist rhetoric and vigilantism Carters bold reporting and the unwavering integrity of his editorials helped lead to the first federal intervention in the south during that era and to the arrest and conviction of nearly 100 klansmen