Hodding Carter

This article is about Hodding Carter II, the journlalist. For his son, the Jimmy Carter White House aide, see Hodding Carter III

William Hodding Carter II, was born in Hammond, LA,on February 3, 1907, and was a noted progressive journalist and author. He died on April 4, 1972 in Greenville, MS of a heart attack.

His first paper was the Hammond Daily Courier, which he started in 1932. The paper was noted for its opposition to Huey Long.

He also wrote articles in the Greenville Delta Democrat-Times regarding social and economic intolerance in the deep south that won him widespread acclaim and the moniker "Spokesman of the New South." He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1946 for his editorials, in particular a series lambasting the treatment of returning Nisei soldiers, treatment that he regarded as unfair. He was a professor for a single semester at Tulane University in New Orleans, USA.

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