a Racist, author Ann Waldron makes the case that although Carter crusaded for racial equality, he hedged on condemning segregation, and that after Brown v. Board of Education in 1954, he attacked the intransigent White Citizens' Council, but only supported gradual integration. In defense of Carter, Claude Sitton, writing about Waldron's book in The New York Times says, "[R]eaders of today will ask how an editor who opposed enactment of a federal antilynching law as unnecessary and public school desegregation in Mississippi as unwise can be called a champion of racial justice. The answer, which she gives in the book's introduction, lies in the context of the times...Absent his efforts and those of other Southern editors of courage and like mind, change would have come far more slowly and at far greater cost." Quotations "Television news is like a lightning flash. It makes a loud noise, lights up everything around it, leaves everything else in darkness and then is suddenly gone." "There are two things we should give our children: one is roots and the other is wings." Research Mitchell Library at Mississippi State University in Starkville holds Carter's personal papers. Books Lower Mississippi (1942) The Winds of Fear (1945) Southern Legacy (1950) Gulf Coast Country (1951) (with Anthony Ragusin) John Law Wasn't So Wrong: The Story of Louisiana's Horn of Plenty (Baton Rouge, La.: Esso Standard Oil Company, 1952). Where Main Street Meets the River (New York: Rinehart & Co., 1953) Robert E. Lee and the Road of Honor (1954) So Great a Good (1955) Marquis de Lafayette: Bright Sword for Freedom (1958) The Angry Scar: The Story of Reconstruction (Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1959) First Person Rural (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1963) The Ballad of Catfoot Grimes and Other Verses (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1964) So the Heffners Left McComb (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1965) The Commandos of World War II (1966) Their Words Were Bullets: The Southern Press in War, Reconstruction, and Peace, Mercer University Memorial Lectures, No. 12 (Athens, Ga.: University of Georgia Press, 1969) Doomed Road of Empire: The Spanish Trail of Conquest (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1963) References Sources Garry Boulard, 'The Man' vs. 'The Quisling': Theodore Bilbo, Hodding Carter and the 1946 Democratic Parimary," Journal of Mississippi History (1989), 51, 201-17. William Hodding Carter, II at the Mississippi Writers and Musicians Project of Starkville High School. "William Hodding Carter, Jr.", A Dictionary of