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The Hillman Prize Previous Honorees

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1954 Newspaper Vic Reinemer editorials on civil liberties and civil rights Charlotte (NC) News
1953 Newspaper Ralph S. O a series on civil liberties Houston Post
1952 Newspaper W. Horace Carter, Tabor City (NC) Tribune, Wi l la rd G. Cole, Whiteville (NC) News and Reporter, Jay Jenkins, Raleigh (NC) News and Observer articles and editorials exposing the Ku Klux Klan North Carolina Tribune, North Carolina News and Reporter, North Carolina News and Observer
1951 Newspaper Carl T. Rowan articles on race relations in the South Minneapolis Tribune
1950 Newspaper A. H. Raskin articles on labor The New York Times
1950 Newspaper Murray Kempton articles on labor in the South New York Post
2009 Newspaper Nina Bernstein "Deaths in Immigrant Detention" The New York Times Go
2010 Newspaper Mark Pittman, Bob Ivry, Alison Fitzgerald & Craig Torres The Fight for Transparency Bloomberg News
2011 Newspaper Brad Heath & Kevin McCoy Justice in the Balance USA Today Go
2012 Newspaper Heather Vogell, Alan Judd, John Perry "The Atlanta Schools Cheating Scandal" The Atlanta Journal Constitution Go
1950 Magazine James H. Means, M.D. Doctors Lobby and England's Public Medicine: The Facts The Atlantic Monthly
1951 Magazine Arthur D. Morse Who's Trying to Ruin Our Schools? McCall's
1953 Magazine Joseph Wechsberg The Seventeenth of June The New Yorker
1954 Magazine Charlotte Knight What Price Security Collier's
1954 Magazine The Progressive special issue on Senator McCarthy (special award) The Progressive
1955 Magazine Robert Engler Oil and Politics The New Republic
1956 Magazine Robert Penn Warren Divided South Searches Its Soul Life
1956 Magazine John Fischer The Harm Good People Do Harper's Magazine
1958 Magazine Giorgio De Santillana Galileo and J.Robert Oppenheimer The Reporter
1958 Magazine Harvey Swados Myth of the Powerful Worker The Nation
1960 Magazine Harry W. Ernst & Charles H. Drake Poor, Proud and Primitive: The Lost Appalachians The Nation
1961 Magazine Lillian Smith The Ordeal of Southern Women Redbook
1962 Magazine Margaret Parton Sometimes Life Just Happens Ladies Home Journal
1963 Magazine Arnold Hano The Burned Out Americans Saga Magazine
1964 Magazine J. Robert Moskin Challenge to Our Doctors Look