Carter survived death threats against himself and his family, and threats of economic boycotts against his paper. He says in the documentary “it would have been a much better story if I had got killed.”
Carter’s Tabor City Tribune and fellow Columbus County newspaper editor, Willard Cole of the Whiteville News Reporter, shared the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service journalism in 1953 for their editorials in opposition to the Klan and its violent activities.
Watch the documentary, which is narrated by Morgan Freeman. Also, here’s a fascinating back story of the Carter’s life and times.
(W. Horace Carter photo from the Carter-Klan Documentary Project)