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The Delta Democrat Times (sometimes spelled Delta Democrat-Times) is a daily [1] newspaper that has been published in Greenville, Mississippi, United States since 1938, when Hodding Carter merged his Delta Star, which he started with his wife Betty Werlein in 1936, with the Democrat Times, which had been in publication since 1868, [2] [3] calling it the Greenville Delta Democrat-Times.
He was raised in Greenville, Mississippi, where his father founded the Greenville Delta Democrat-Times, and was educated at Phillips Exeter Academy, Greenville High School, and Princeton University. [1] He was in the United States Marine Corps from 1957 to 1959, before joining the staff of his father's newspaper. [1]
He also wrote editorials in the Greenville Delta Democrat-Times regarding social and economic intolerance in the Deep South that won him widespread acclaim and the moniker "Spokesman of the New South". Carter wrote a caustic article for Look magazine which detailed the menacing spread of a chapter of the White Citizens' Council.
In June 2010, Reed was involved in a vehicular crash, which resulted in the death of another man in Greenville. [8] Reed himself was injured and hospitalized in Jackson, Mississippi. [8] Reed died at his home in Greenville on December 8, 2024, from complications of pneumonia, at the age of 96. [2] [1]
The second floor was rented to the Greenville Temple Association, a Freemason lodge, from 1883 to 1914. [2] The first floor was rented to the Greenville Bank and Trust Company from 1906 to 1910. [2] From 1943 to 1968, the building was rented by the Delta Democrat Times. [2] Later, it was rented to the Mississippi Industries for the Blind. [2]
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Toole's mother persuaded him to take A Confederacy of Dunces to Hodding Carter Jr., who was well known as a reporter and publisher for the Delta Democrat Times in Greenville, Mississippi, and was spending a semester teaching at Tulane. Carter showed little interest in the book but complimented him on it.
Charles Evers was born in Decatur, Mississippi, on September 11, 1922, to James Evers, a laborer, and Jesse Wright Evers, a maid. [5] [6] He was the eldest of four children; [6] Medgar Evers was his younger brother.