Title
What a Price for Peace
Subject
Editorials
Boone, Buford, 1909 - 1983
Description
"What a Price for Peace" was written by Buford Boone, editor and publisher of the Tuscaloosa News and advocate of law and order in a time when chaos reigned.
On February 7, 1956, after three days of student demonstrations, the University of Alabama suspended Autherine Lucy, the first African American to attempt integration in the history of the school. The next day Boone published his editorial in the Tuscaloosa News, condemning the mob violence that had taken place on campus and the university's response to it.
"What a Price for Peace" thrust Boone into the national spotlight and earned him the Pulitizer Prize for editorial writing in 1957. He became the South's moderate voice in the civil rights movement, a role that won him both enemies and supporters. (Alabama Heritage: Summer 2007)
On February 7, 1956, after three days of student demonstrations, the University of Alabama suspended Autherine Lucy, the first African American to attempt integration in the history of the school. The next day Boone published his editorial in the Tuscaloosa News, condemning the mob violence that had taken place on campus and the university's response to it.
"What a Price for Peace" thrust Boone into the national spotlight and earned him the Pulitizer Prize for editorial writing in 1957. He became the South's moderate voice in the civil rights movement, a role that won him both enemies and supporters. (Alabama Heritage: Summer 2007)
Creator
Buford Boone
Source
Tuscaloosa News Archive
Publisher
Tuscaloosa News
Date
February 7, 1956
Contributor
Betty Slowe (Description)
Type
Document
Identifier
975
Coverage
Tuscaloosa (AL)
Original Format
Newspaper