the industry. In 1986 Smith moved to live with her sister and her family in Gadsden, Alabama, her hometown, suffering from early symptoms of apparent Alzheimer's disease. She later moved to be near nieces in Tennessee. She died there in 1994 in a nursing home in Cleveland, Tennessee. Her body was returned to Alabama, where she was buried near family members in Gadsden. Legacy and honors Smith received other recognition in addition to the Pulitzer Prize: awards from the National Federation of Press Women (1946, 1955), the Herrick Award for Editorial Writing (1956), the Mississippi Press Association (1957). She won the Golden Quill Award of the International Society of Weekly Newspaper Editors in 1963, and in 1964 was named by the National Council of Women as the “Woman of Conscience” that year. She was president of the International Society of Weekly Newspaper Editors in 1981–82. Death Hazel Freeman Smith died in Cleveland, Tennessee on May 15, 1994, aged 80. Papers Smith's 1945-1976 papers are available to researchers and held at the Special Collections department of the Mississippi State University Library. Films Smith was one of the subjects in the documentary film An Independent Voice (1973) about small-town newspaper editors. Her life was dramatized in the ABC-TV movie A Passion for Justice: The Hazel Brannon Smith Story (1994), with Jane Seymour in the title role. The movie aired several weeks before Smith died. Further reading Kathleen Brady, "Hazel Brannon Smith: White Martyr for Civil Rights," in Forgotten Heroes, edited by Susan Ware, New York: The Free Press, 1998. David R. Davies, ed. The Press and Race: Mississippi Journalists Confront the Movement. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2001. Jeffrey B. Howell, Hazel Brannon Smith: The Female Crusading Scalawag (University Press of Mississippi, 2017). Gene Roberts and Hank Klibanoff. The Race Beat: The Press, The Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2007. Ann Waldron. Hodding Carter: The Reconstruction of a Racist. Chapel Hill, N.C.: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1993. John A. Whalen, Maverick Among the Magnolias: The Hazel Brannon Smith Story, Xlibris (self-published), 2001. Mabel Norris Reese Lovejoy Award recipient References External links Hazel Brannon Smith: "Bombed, Burned and Boycotted", 1983 Fellow, Alicia Patterson Foundation website "This Female Crusading Scalawag" by Bernard L. Stein, Freedom Forum, Summer 2000 Mississippi Newspapers on Microfilm 1914 births 1994 deaths Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing winners American women