Awards & Winners

Roland Kenneth Towery

Date of Birth 25-January-1923
Place of Birth Smithville
(Monroe County, Mississippi, United States of America)
Nationality United States of America
Profession Journalist
Roland Kenneth Towery is a Pulitzer-prize winning journalist.

Awards by Roland Kenneth Towery

Check all the awards nominated and won by Roland Kenneth Towery.

1955


Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting
(For his series of articles exclusively exposing a scandal in the administration of the Veterans' Land Program in Texas. This 32-year-old World War II veteran, a former prisoner of the Japanese, made these irregularities a state-wide and subsequently a national issue, and stimulated state action to rectify conditions in the land program.)