Minor, Wilson F.
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Fuller Name
- Wilson Floyd
Variants
- Minor, Bill
Additional Information
Birth Date
- 1922-05-17
Death Date
- 2017-03-28
Birth Place
- Hammond (La.)
Associated Language
- English
Occupation
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Sources
- found: Newsmaker. [No. 21], Campaign '71. Charles Evers, 1971:opening credits (Wilson F. Minor, The Times-Picayune)
- found: Eyes on Mississippi, c2001:t.p. (Bill Minor) p. ix (Wilson "Bill" Minor; began covering Mississippi politics in 1947) p. 4 of cover (graduated from Tulane University in 1943 and served in World War II on a Navy destroyer in the Pacific. A native of Hammond, Louisiana; currently lives in Jackson, Mississippi; awarded the Louis Lyons Award in 1966; first recipient of the John Chancellor Award for Excellence in Journalism in 1997)
- found: New York times WWW site, viewed Mar. 30, 2017(in obituary published Mar. 28: Bill Minor; b. Wilson Floyd Minor, May 17, 1922, Hammond, La.; d. Tuesday [Mar. 28, 2017], Ridgeland, Miss., aged 94; his courageous reporting helped open Americans' eyes to everyday racial discrimination in the South in the 1960s and won him recognition as the "conscience of Mississippi")
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Change Notes
- 1999-03-10: new
- 2017-03-30: revised
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