Horace Carter, Newspaper Publisher, Dies at 88
Thursday, September 17 2009
by Yasmeen Khan
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(Photo: UNC Chapel Hill)
Newspaper publisher Walter Horace Carter worked to expose Ku Klux Klan activities in eastern North Carolina in the 1950s. Klan members threatened Carter's home, his family, and his newspaper's advertisers. Carter's crusade against the KKK helped bring about federal indictments of hundreds of Klan members, and The Tabor City Tribune became the first weekly newspaper to win a Pulitzer Prize in 1953 for Meritorious Public Service.
