Hodding Carter

Hodding Carter

William Hodding Carter, II (February 3, 1907 – April 4, 1972) was a prominent Southern U.S. progressive journalist and author. Carter was born in Hammond, the largest community in Tangipahoa Parish, in southeastern Louisiana, to William Hodding Carter, I (1881–1955), and the former Irma Dutartre. Among other distinctions in his career, Carter was a Nieman Fellow.

Carter died in Greenville of a heart attack at the age of sixty-five. He is interred in the Greenville Cemetery.

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