by the editorial board, on October 25, "Editorial: From the past, condemnation of lynching," they wrote: The editorial board reprinted Jaffe's Pulitzer prize-winning story, "An Unspeakable Act of Savagery," saying that it was "for those who need a reminder of a history that no one – including the president of the United States – should whitewash," an obvious reference to Donald Trump. Jaffe's work and determination, played an important role in the adoption of an antilynching law, in 1928 by the Virginia General Assembly, declaring lynching a state crime. In 2019, Senate Joint Resolution No. 297, was passed by the state acknowledging and apologizing for the state's "acceptance of lynching within the Commonwealth." In 1930, the editorial jury wanted to award Jaffe a second Pulitzer, for his article, "Not Heresy but Hunger," however, the rules were not clear on awarding the prize, to the same individual, working with the same newspaper, two years in succession. Personal Jaffe married Margaret Stewart Davis, in 1920. They had one son, Christopher, born in 1922; they divorced in 1939. He married again in 1942, to Alice Cohn Rice, They had a son, Louis Isaac Jr., born in 1946, and another child, Lewis Lawson, who died as an infant. Louis Isaac Jaffe died of a coronary condition, at the Norfolk General Hospital, in Norfolk, Virginia. Jaffe is buried at Cedar Grove Cemetery, Norfolk, Norfolk city, Virginia. Alexander Leidholt published Jaffe's biography in 2002. A collection of Jaffe's papers are preserved at the Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library at the University of Virginia. References 1888 births Writers from Durham, North Carolina 1950 deaths Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing winners Jewish American journalists American people of Lithuanian-Jewish descent American male journalists American newspaper editors American anti-lynching activists Journalists from North Carolina Writers from Norfolk, Virginia Journalists from Virginia 20th-century American journalists Activists from North Carolina Activists from Virginia United States Army personnel of World War I