Harry Ashmore

Harry S. Ashmore
Ashmore in the 1970s
Born
Harry Scott Ashmore

(1916-07-28)July 28, 1916
Greenville, South Carolina, U.S.
DiedJanuary 20, 1998(1998-01-20) (aged 81)
Santa Barbara, California, U.S.
Alma materClemson Agricultural College
OccupationJournalist
SpouseBarbara Edith Laier
AwardsPulitzer Prize (1957)

Harry Scott Ashmore (July 28, 1916 – January 20, 1998) was an American journalist who won a Pulitzer Prize for his editorials in 1957 on the school integration conflict in Little Rock, Arkansas.

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