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The Role of the Clarion-Ledger in the Adoption of the 1982 Education Reform Act: Winning the Pulitzer Prize
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July 1, 2008
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Wickham, Kathleen Woodruff. The Role of the Clarion-Ledger in the Adoption of the 1982 Education Reform Act: Winning the Pulitzer Prize. Lewiston, N.Y.: Edwin Mellon Press, 2007. 420 pp. $129.95.
Identifying the turning point of a newspaper as it disavows its segregationist heritage to embrace the role of community advocate and the high recognition the publication receives for that effort is worthy journalism history. However, this version of that story is marred by typographical errors and the occasional loosely reconstructed event.
The Jackson, Mississippi, newspaper, the Clarion-Ledger, was awarded the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for advocating state-wide support of ...
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