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Date of Birth
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15-January-1918
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Place of Birth
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New Orleans
(Louisiana, United States of America, Area code 504)
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Nationality
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United States of America
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Also know as
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Ira Harkey Jr., Ira Harkey
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Profession
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Journalist, Author, Editor, Professor, Publisher
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Ira B. Harkey Jr. was an author of books, professor of journalism, and editor and publisher of the Pascagoula, Mississippi Chronicle-Star from 1951 to 1963. Harkey was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing in 1963 for his anti-segregation editorials during the civil rights crisis surrounding the admission of James Meredith, a black man, to the University of Mississippi at Oxford, Mississippi in 1962.
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