Ira Harkey Author

Ira Harkey was born in New Orleans in 1918. He served as editor of the Pascagoula Chronicle during the integration of the University of Mississippi in 1962, and his opinion and editorial writing won him the Pulitzer Prize in 1963. Harkey wrote three other books and lectured at several universities before his death in 2006.

William Hustwit is associate professor of history at Birmingham-Southern College and author of James J. Kilpatrick: Salesman for Segregation and Integration Now: "Alexander v. Holmes"and the End of Jim Crow Education.