By Graydon Rust
Alabama 200
July 3, 1927
Grover C. Hall, editor of the Montgomery Advertiser, published the cornerstone editorial in a series of articles that won the 1928 Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing. In the editorials, Hall condemned statewide public floggings of African-Americans by the Ku Klux Klan. He later published editorials urging the repeal of Prohibition, arguing for the release of the Scottsboro Boys, and criticizing anti-Semitism. His 1938 editorial, “The Egregious Gentile Called to Account,“ was published in the U.S. Congressional Record in 1939.
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