As Mr. Minor later recalled, he thought at the time that segregation might be buried with Bilbo. Mr. Minor joined The Times-Picayune after serving in the Navy as a gunnery officer on a destroyer in the Pacific during World War II. Advertisement Continue reading the main storyAfterward he bought what became the weekly Capitol Reporter in Jackson and edited it until it closed in 1981. He later wrote a weekly syndicated column and a book, “Eyes on Mississippi: A Fifty-Year Chronicle of Change” (2001). In 1997, Columbia University gave Mr. Minor its John Chancellor Award for Excellence in Journalism.

Source: New York Times March 29, 2017 00:33 UTC