Everything about Harry Ashmore totally explained
Harry Scott Ashmore (
July 28,
1916,
Greenville, South Carolina –
January 20,
1998,
Santa Barbara, California) was an
American journalist who won a
Pulitzer Prize for his editorials in 1957 on the school integration conflict in
Little Rock,
Arkansas.
Ashmore was born in Greenville, South Carolina, on
July 28 1916. He attended Greenville High School and
Clemson Agricultural College where he graduated with a degree in general science in 1937. He showed an early ability in
journalism, having served as
editor of the
student newspapers at both Greenville High School and Clemson College. After graduation from Clemson, Ashmore worked as a
newspaper reporter, first at the
Greenville Piedmont, and then at the
Greenville News. In 1940 Ashmore married Barbara Edith Laier, a physical education teacher at
Furman University. Ashmore was accepted for a
Neiman Fellowship at
Harvard University in 1941. When the United States entered
World War II in December of 1941, Ashmore left Harvard to join the
United States Army, and served as an operations officer (reaching the rank of
Lieutenant Colonel) with the
Ninety-fifth Infantry Division, part of the
United States Third Army. After the war, Harry Ashmore became the
editorial writer at the
Charlotte News (in
Charlotte,
North Carolina).
Arkansas Gazette
In 1947 Ashmore was recruited to be the editorial writer at the
Arkansas Gazette in Little Rock, Arkansas. He soon became the
executive editor at the paper, and gained a reputation as a moderate-to-liberal thinker. In 1951
Governor Sid McMath of Arkansas invited Ashmore to address the
Southern Governors' Conference when it met at
Hot Springs, Arkansas. Ashmore spoke to the governors on
civil rights, a contentious subject in southern states, and newspapers around the United States reprinted the speech or excerpts from it. In 1959 the
Arkansas General Assembly passed a resolution to rename Toad Suck Ferry to Ashmore Landing. Governor Faubus vetoed the resolution on the grounds that the name change would defame a well known landing. He also served as the editor-in-chief of the
Encyclopaedia Britannica from 1960 until 1963, and afterwards as Director of Editorial Research. Ashmore received the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award Lifetime Achievement Award for 1995-1996.
In 1967 and 1968 Harry Ashmore traveled to
North Vietnam with
Bill Baggs (editor of
The Miami News) on a private peace mission. While there, they interviewed
Ho Chi Minh about what conditions would be necessary to end the
Vietnam War. He speaks about his experiences in the 1968 documentary film
In the Year of the Pig.
Harry Ashmore died in Santa Barbara, California on
January 20,
1998.
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