Editing Hodding Carter (section)

===Career background===
After a year as a [[teacher|teaching]] [[fellow]] at [[Tulane University]] in [[New Orleans]] (1928–1929), Carter worked as [[news reporter|reporter]] for the ''[[New Orleans Item-Tribune]]'' (1929), [[United Press International|United Press]] in New Orleans (1930), and the [[Associated Press]] in [[Jackson, Mississippi]], (1931–32).

With his wife, [[Betty Werlein Carter|Betty Werlein ]] of New Orleans, Carter founded the ''Hammond Daily Courier,'' in 1932. The paper was known for its opposition to popular Louisiana governor [[Huey Long|Huey Pierce Long Jr.]], but its support for the national [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic Party]].

He won the [[Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing]] in 1946 for his editorials on intolerance, as exemplified by "[[s:Go for Broke|Go for Broke]]", lambasting the ill treatment of [[Japanese American]] (''[[Nisei]]'') soldiers returning from [[World War II]]. He was a professor for a single semester at Tulane.