Eugene Patterson, a voice on civil rights, dies at 89

By: Associated Press - Texarkana Gazette

Associated Press • This undated photo made during World War II, shows Eugene Patterson, commander of a tank platoon as Gen. George Patton’s 3rd Army drove through the German ranks. Newspaper editor and columnist Eugene Patterson, who helped fellow Southern whites understand the civil rig...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla.—Eugene Patterson, the Pulitzer Prize-winning editor and columnist who helped fellow Southern whites understand the civil rights movement, eloquently reminding the silent majority of its complicity in racial violence, died Saturday evening at his Florida home. He was 89....

Published: 01/14/2013