Ira B. Harkey Jr., Date of Birth, Date of Death
TweetIra B. Harkey Jr.
American journalist
Date of Birth: 15-Jan-1918
Date of Death: 08-Oct-2006
Profession: journalist
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Capricorn 
About Ira B. Harkey Jr.
- Ira B.
- Harkey Jr.
- (January 15, 1918 – October 8, 2006) was an author of books, professor of journalism, and editor and publisher of the Pascagoula, Mississippi Chronicle-Star from 1951 to 1963.
- Harkey was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing in 1963 for his anti-segregation editorials during the civil rights crisis surrounding the admission of James Meredith, a black man, to the University of Mississippi at Oxford, Mississippi in 1962.
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