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2 unusual facts about Hazel Brannon Smith


Hazel Brannon Smith

Graduating from the University of Alabama in 1935 with a B.A. in Journalism, she went to Durant, Mississippi and bought the failing Durant News, making it such a success by 1943 that she purchased the Lexington Advertiser in the neighboring town of Lexington, Mississippi.

Lexington, Mississippi

Hazel Brannon Smith, first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing (1914–1994)



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