Pulitzer Prize
Smith's editorials and her column ("Through Hazel's Eyes") focused on unpopular causes, political corruption and social injustice in Mississippi. Her opposition to the White Citizens' Council brought her the Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing in 1964 for her "steadfast adherence to her editorial duty in the face of great pressure and opposition."
She also received awards from the National Federation of Press Women (1946, 1955), the Herrick Award for Editorial Writing (1956), the Mississippi Press Association (1957). She was president of the International Society of Weekly Newspaper Editors in 1981-82. She died in Cleveland, Tennessee on May 15, 1994.
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