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The Hillman Prize Previous Honorees

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Year Category Honoree Title Publisher/Airer Sitesort icon
1957 Newspaper Harry Ashmore editorials on school integration Arkansas Gazette
1956 Newspaper The New York Times editorials on the Middle East Crisis (special award) The New York Times
1956 Newspaper Robert H. Spiegel series on segregation in Des Moines Des Moines Tribune
1955 Newspaper Murray Marder articles on the government security program Washington Post
1955 Newspaper Ben H. Bagdikian series on civil liberties Providence Journal Bulletin
1954 Newspaper Daniel R. Fitzpatrick editorial cartoons (special award) St. Louis Dispatch
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
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