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 Carolina's TABOR CITY TRIBUNE to protest the Klan's racist rhetoric and vigilantism. Carter's 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.
Direction
Campbell and Clark let Carter's words do the work.
Production
Archival footage that feels freshly unearthed.
Director
Walter E. Campbell
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Carter's Pulitzer was only the second ever awarded to a weekly newspaper—beating every major daily in the country.
Tabor City's Klan revival was funded partly by 'membership fees' from angry white voters—sound familiar? Carter documented the exact same grievance politics still selling today.
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