Harry Ashmore

Harry Scott Ashmore, executive editor of the Arkansas Gazette during the 1957 desegregation crisis at Central High School in Little Rock (Pulaski County).

White man sitting at his desk reading a newspaper with typewriter behind him and stacks of newspapers around

Photo courtesy of Barbara Ashmore

Media

Time Period

World War II through the Faubus Era (1941 - 1967)

Type

Person

Race & Ethnicity

White

Gender

Male

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