Pulitzer Prize winning journalist dies at 88
Pulitzer prize winner, Ira B. Harkey Jr., 88, died Sunday from complications of Parkinson’s disease at the Parson’s Nursing Home in Kerrville, Texas. When Harkey received the Pulitzer in 1963, he had been editor/publisher of The Chronicle Star (now The Mississippi Press) for 14 years. The Pulitzer Prize was awarded for his editorial writing during the integration of the University of Mississippi. His editorials were recognized as courageous and devoted to the processes of law and reason during the integration crisis in Mississippi in 1962.