Hodding Carter II (1907-1972) was a prominent journalist and author. He was awarded the Niemen Fellowship from Harvard University and the 1946 Pulitzer Prize for his editorials. Author of over fifteen books, he is remembered for his outspoken progressive political views following World War II. Trent Brown is associate professor of American studies at the Missouri University of Science and Technology. He is author of three books including, with Ed King, Ed King's Mississippi: Behind the Scenes of Freedom Summer, published by University Press of Mississippi. Oliver Emmerich (1896-1978) is best known as one of a handful of white Mississippi journalists who publicized and criticized the worst of his community's actions in opposition to the civil rights movement.