Hazel B. Smith, 1950s

Newspaper editor and publisher Hazel Brannon Smith, in hat, at a Mississippi Press Association Convention during the early 1950s. Her early journalistic writings supported segregation, but she gradually shifted toward support for the civil rights movement during the late 1950s and early 1960s.

Portrait of Hazel B. Smith in the 1950s
Courtesy of the Mississippi State University Special Collections
Portrait of Hazel B. Smith in the 1950s