Editing Hodding Carter (section)

===Fighting intolerance===
He also wrote editorials in the ''Greenville Delta Democrat-Times'' regarding social and economic intolerance in the [[American South|Deep South]] that won him widespread acclaim and the moniker "Spokesman of the [[New South]]".

Carter wrote a caustic article for ''[[Look (American magazine)|Look]]'' magazine which detailed the menacing spread of a chapter of the [[Citizens' Councils|White Citizens' Council]]. The article was attacked on the floor of the [[Mississippi House of Representatives]] as a "Willful lie by a nigger-loving editor". Carter responded in a front-page editorial:<blockquote>By vote of 89 to 19, the [[Mississippi House of Representatives]] has resolved the editor of this newspaper into a liar because of an article I wrote. If this charge were true, it would make me well qualified to serve in that body. It is not true. So to even things up, I hereby resolve by a vote of one to nothing that there are eighty-nine liars in the state legislature.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20010818144158/http://www.asne.org/kiosk/archive/convention/2001/leadership/civilrights.html Roberts, Eugene L.] American Society of Newspaper Editors, July 31, 2004. Last accessed: 1/13/07.</ref></blockquote>